The Veteran's salivary gland disability is denied as not incurred or aggravated by service, and his right foot scar is denied an initial compensable rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not establish a direct relationship between the Veteran’s current salivary gland disability and his active service. The VA examiner found no medical nexus between the salivary gland disability and any incident, injury or event in active service. For the right foot scar, the VA examiner noted that there are no scars related to military service.
- Claimed conditions
- salivary gland disability, sialolithiasis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19137874
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Decisions by this judge: 1,037 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a salivary gland disability to obtain an addendum medical opinion that addresses the inadequacies of previous opinions.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for esophageal disability, salivary gland disability, neck disability, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability, leg cramps, and psychiatric disability. The issues are being remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's hypertension is granted service connection. The initial evaluation for PTSD remains at 50 percent, and the initial compensable evaluation for sialolithiasis is denied. Other issues regarding service connection are remanded.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a salivary gland disability, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between his current condition and his military service.
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