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.
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