The Board found no evidence of an in-service dental injury and denied the veteran's claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The service medical records did not show any documented dental trauma or injury during active duty, and the veteran failed to provide credible evidence supporting his account of a head injury from a truck tailgate while on active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a dental injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2007
- Citation
- 0703912
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- Granted
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- Denied
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