The veteran's claims of service connection for disabilities manifested by left knee and lumbar spine pain, to include as due to an undiagnosed illness, were reopened. Service connection for a tooth disorder was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the May 2000 Board decision shows that the veteran has left knee and low back disabilities, relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims of service connection for disabilities manifested by left knee and lumbar spine pain, and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- tooth disorder, left knee pain, lumbar spine pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 26, 2009
- Citation
- 0902566
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Decisions by this judge: 2,699 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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