The Veteran's service connection claim for oral ulcers is granted, and she is also granted entitlement to TDIU prior to May 24, 2010.
The deciding factor: VA health care providers have opined that the Veteran's recurrent oral lesions are either viral in nature or represent a somatic manifestation of stress associated with her service-connected mental disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- oral ulcers
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2012
- Citation
- 1226155
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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