The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current disability associated with his mandibular torus, and therefore service connection cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability associated with the mandibular torus in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- mandibular torus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2016
- Citation
- 1639562
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