The Board denied service connection for a dental disability for VA compensation purposes and dismissed the appeal for entitlement to service connection for a dental disability for VA treatment purposes.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's missing teeth were not due to loss of substance of body of maxilla or mandible from trauma or disease such as osteomyelitis, and he is already entitled to all needed dental treatment under his 100 percent combined disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- missing teeth
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2024
- Citation
- 24000355
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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