The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining service treatment records and private dental records. The Veteran's claim of service connection for facial injuries is being reconsidered.
The deciding factor: The examiner must provide an opinion as to whether it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's current TMJ syndrome is linked to a head injury during service in March 1963.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of facial injuries, injuries of the jaw and teeth
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2018
- Citation
- 1802493
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for a back disability, right foot disability, and residuals of facial injuries due to lack of in-service diagnosis and continuity of symptomatology.
- Granted
Service connection is granted for bilateral hearing loss.,Service connection is denied for residuals of frostbite, facial injuries, dental injuries, and neurological seizures.,Service connection is granted for PTSD with an initial rating of 30%.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining service medical records and arranging for VA examinations to determine the nature and likely etiology of any claimed psychiatric disorder and facial injury residuals.
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