The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a jaw disorder, finding no evidence of current disability and insufficient medical evidence to establish a direct link between service and his claimed condition.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability of the jaw or any compensable dental condition that could be considered service-connected. The Board found that the Veteran's numbness around the extracted tooth was not due to in-service trauma, but rather an infection that resolved with treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- jaw disorder, loss of sensation around tooth number 17
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2010
- Citation
- 1003539
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