Partly granted
The Board denied increased ratings for various service-connected conditions and granted service connection for bruxism as secondary to the veteran's acquired psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence was in equipoise regarding whether the appellant's bruxism is causally related to his service-connected acquired psychiatric disability, leading to a grant of service connection for this condition.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder, agoraphobia with major depressive disorder, bruxism (claimed as temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain and dysfunction), right knee degenerative joint disease, chronic headaches
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25091751
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