The Veteran's service-connected TDIU (Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability) effective from December 11, 2015, allows him to receive any needed dental treatment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran is entitled to TDIU which qualifies them for Class IV outpatient dental treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- tooth and gum disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 20, 2017
- Citation
- 1728566
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- Denied
The Veteran's claims for various disabilities, including diabetes mellitus and its complications, are denied as there is no evidence of in-service disease or injury that would support service connection. The Veteran did not serve in Vietnam and the evidence does not show exposure to herbicides during service.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for tooth and gum disease was withdrawn. Service connection for a right knee disability was reopened based on new evidence. A rating of 20 percent for arthritis of the left knee from August 22, 2005 to January 10, 2006 was granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to the need to determine if he was exposed to Agent Orange while serving on a ship in Vietnam waters, and to obtain his medical records.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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