The Board has granted service connection for facial tremors, finding that they are proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disability (jaw fracture).
The deciding factor: The Board found it is at least as likely as not that the veteran's current facial tremors are due to his service-connected residuals of jaw fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- Facial Tremors
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0503661
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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.
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