The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current disability related to her dental condition with loss of teeth, gum pain and injury to top of front teeth, residuals of a bottom lip injury to include mouth and face pain, head condition or unspecified shoulder condition. The preponderance of evidence is against finding any such relationship.,The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current disability related to her dental condition with loss of teeth, gum pain and injury to top of front teeth, residuals of a bottom lip injury to include mouth and face pain, head condition or unspecified shoulder condition. The preponderance of evidence is against finding any such relationship.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have a current diagnosis for the claimed conditions and there are no in-service events or diagnoses that would support service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Dental condition with loss of teeth, gum pain and injury to top of front teeth, Residuals of a bottom lip injury to include mouth and face pain, Head condition, Unspecified shoulder condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19172143
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