The Board found that the veteran's complaints of a speech impediment may be related to facial nerve damage from his in-service motor vehicle accident. However, service connection for these conditions is denied as there is no current diagnosis and the evidence does not support a link to service.
The deciding factor: There is no current medical diagnosis linking the veteran's symptoms to service or any other etiology.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety and Depression, Breathing Disorder (Respiratory)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2008
- Citation
- 0803466
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