The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral hip disorder, shoulder disorder, and loss of teeth as secondary to a service-connected bilateral mandibular fracture. The Board found that there was no evidence of these conditions during or within one year after service, and thus could not be presumed to have been incurred in service.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the veteran's hip and shoulder disorders were not shown to have been caused by any in-service event.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip disorder, shoulder disorder, loss of teeth
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2007
- Citation
- 0700076
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