The Board has determined that the Veteran's TMJ is related to his in-service facial trauma and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence was in relative equipoise regarding whether the Veteran’s current TMJ had its onset in service, with both positive and negative opinions presented. The Board found the positive opinion favorable to the Veteran's claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19154223
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has denied service connection for TMJ and remanded the claims of increased rating for major depressive disorder and service connection for PTSD.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's TMJ and Erectile Dysfunction claims are remanded for further development due to duty-to-assist errors.
- Granted
The Veteran's rating for TMJ was reduced from 40 percent to 30 percent in March 2016, and then further reduced to 10 percent in November 2022. The appeal challenges the propriety of these reductions, with the Board finding that a reduction is warranted as there has not been sustained improvement in the Veteran's TMJ under ordinary conditions of life and work.
- Denied
The Board found no clear and unmistakable error in the February 2000 rating decision that granted a 10 percent initial rating for temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ).
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