The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for a dental condition and a compensable disability rating for temporomandibular joint syndrome before the Board could make a decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran explicitly requested to withdraw his appeal regarding these issues during a November 2018 hearing.
- Claimed conditions
- dental condition, temporomandibular joint syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19124446
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and service connection for various conditions, as well as initial ratings higher than noncompensable for dermatitis and hypertension, and a rating higher than 20 percent for lumbar spine strain.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a dental condition, finding that the Veteran's teeth were lost due to trauma and not as a result of an in-service injury or disease.
- Denied
The Board denied increased ratings for peptic ulcer disease, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus, as well as service connection for a dental condition and an acquired psychiatric disorder, all of which were claimed to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected peptic ulcer disease.
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