The Board has granted service connection for the loss of tooth #8 for treatment purposes, finding that it is due to an in-service dental trauma. Service connection for compensation purposes was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence preponderates in favor of finding that the Veteran's current missing tooth #8 is due to an in-service dental trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of tooth #8
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19104254
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Decisions by this judge: 1,960 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for loss of tooth #8 for both compensation and treatment purposes due to the Veteran not having a compensable dental disability.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for loss of tooth #8 for treatment purposes, but denied it for compensation purposes.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's dental disability is not service-connected and denied both his claim for service connection and his request for a compensable evaluation.
- Whole decision: Denied
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