The Board denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of jaw injury, finding that no CUE was present in the April and July 1968 decisions or that an earlier effective date should have been assigned by the September 2003 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The RO had already granted service connection for jaw injury with an effective date of August 29, 2002 based on a claim filed in August 2002. The Board found that there was no CUE and that the earlier decisions were not erroneous.
- Claimed conditions
- jaw injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2007
- Citation
- 0731073
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