Public Law 84–83

Veterans Regulation Numbered 7 (a) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

“II.

Outpatient dental services and treatment, and related dental appliances, shall be furnished under this regulation only for any dental condition or disability—

“(1)“(1)

which is service connected and compensable in degree;

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“(2)“(2)

which is service connected and is shown to have been in existence at time of discharge or release from active service, but only if application for treatment, is made within one year after discharge or release, or by December 31, 1954, whichever last occurs;

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“(3)“(3)

which is a service-connected dental condition or disability due to combat wounds or other service trauma or of a former prisoner of war;

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“(4)“(4)

which is associated with and is aggravating disability from some other disease or injury’ which was incurred in or aggravated by active service; or

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“(5)“(5)

of a veteran of the Spanish-American War (including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection): Provided, That benefits afforded under clause (2) shall be on a onetime completion basis, unless the services rendered on a onetime basis are found unacceptable within the limitations of good professional standards, in which event such additional services may be afforded as are required to complete professionally acceptable treatment.”

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The amendment made by this section shall not be construed to affect the authority of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to furnish dental services to veteran trainees under part VII of Veterans

57 Stat. 43.

38 USC ch. 12A.

Regulation Numbered 1 (a), or under Public Law 16, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended and extended.