The Board has remanded the case for further evaluation of the veteran's dental disability due to service, and a VA examination is required.
The deciding factor: Further medical examination is needed to determine if the veteran currently exhibits any potentially compensable dental disability incurred in service.
- Claimed conditions
- osteomyelitis, osteoradionecrosis of the maxilla or mandible, loss of the mandible, maxilla, ramus, or coronoid process, loss of the hard palate, not replaceable by prosthesis, nonunion of the mandible, limited motion of the temporomandibular articulation, loss of teeth due to loss of substance of the body of the maxilla or mandible
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2004
- Citation
- 0409692
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the claim for service connection of the Veteran's cause of death due to a predecisional duty to assist error in not obtaining relevant medical records from the state veteran's home.
- Granted
The Veteran's requirement for assistance with activities of daily living was granted as a result of his service-connected left and right foot disabilities, specifically due to osteomyelitis.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for osteomyelitis and amputation above the knee, left as secondary to osteomyelitis. The claims for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus were granted.
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