The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are rated at 100 percent, allowing them to receive VA dental treatment for their conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran meets the requirements of Class IV eligibility for VA outpatient dental treatment due to having a combined schedular rating of 100% for their service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- cleft palate, cleft lip, under bite, nonunion of right mandible
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19188346
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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.
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