The Board granted service connection for the disabilities and assigned specific ratings. The TMJ dysfunction received a 30 percent rating effective from January 6, 2004. The facial scars were rated as 30 percent disabling since the grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The veteran's TMJ dysfunction was found to have significant pain limiting his inter-incisal range, warranting a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, Facial scarring below the right lower lip and under the chin, Residual paresthesia of the right lower lip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0501040
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim of service connection for temporomandibular joint dysfunction, finding that the condition had onset during her period of active service and has persisted since then.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection of temporomandibular joint dysfunction is denied, and the rating for posttraumatic stress disorder remains at 30 percent.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issues of entitlement to a compensable disability rating for right long finger, subluxation PIP joint status post dislocation with residual scar and entitlement to an initial rating greater than 10 percent for temporomandibular joint dysfunction due to new and more recent evidence.,No effective date is provided as the appeal remains in appellate status.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's temporomandibular joint dysfunction does not warrant a disability rating in excess of 10 percent, as his inter-incisal range of motion is consistently greater than 30 mm without strain.
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