The Board finds that the currently demonstrated TMD is likely caused by the service-connected Reiter's Syndrome and grants secondary service connection for TMD.
The deciding factor: The opinions from private practitioners support a finding of a causal relationship between the service-connected Reiter's Syndrome and the current TMD.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD), Reiter's Syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 16, 2009
- Citation
- 0943536
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