The Board has remanded the cases for further action due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the etiology of the Veteran's sleep disability and dental surgery residuals.
The deciding factor: An addendum opinion is needed from a different VA examiner to address the Veteran's statements about his in-service symptoms and their relation to current disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of dental surgery, sleep disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2022
- Citation
- 22064996
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection, increased rating, and TDIU due to incomplete evidence.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a sleep disability as there is no probative evidence of a current sleep disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a sleep disability due to the lack of evidence showing a current diagnosis.
- Partly granted
The appeal was denied for an increased rating of tinnitus and remanded for further development on other service connection claims.
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