The Board remands the claim for service connection of a dental/oral condition to obtain additional evidence and provide a new opinion.
The deciding factor: Inadequate opinion due to missing records, necessitating further development before a decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- dental/oral condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25039322
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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a dental/oral condition, including cracked tooth, nerve damage, and root canal, as there was no evidence of a current disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case to determine whether new and relevant evidence has been received to readjudicate claims of service connection for various conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for a dental/oral condition to obtain missing dental records and provide a new opinion.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right lower extremity sciatica associated with the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral spine strain, but remanded claims for service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and sleep apnea.
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