The Board is remanding the case for additional development, including obtaining medical records and providing the veteran with VCAA notice regarding his claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The case requires further examination to determine the nature of the veteran's facial paralysis and dental conditions, as well as whether they are related to his service-connected osteomyelitis of the right mandible.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder, facial paralysis, loss of teeth
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2006
- Citation
- 0627234
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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
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