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Opinions in Louisiana that cite Jenkins v. Orleans Parish School Board, 310 So. 2d 831.

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Dordain v. Anthony Seafood & Lobster House 860 So. 2d 1166 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2003
has stated: [Cjompensation jurisprudence has consistently allowed disfigurement-impairment awards for loss of natural teeth and, in doing so, has rejected contentions of non-compensability because dentures were claimed to be a cosmetic or functional improvement.
Shumate v. Little Caesars, Inc. 640 So. 2d 774 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1994
(worker’s teeth rendered “non-vital” — and therefore compensable — by a workplace accident).
Broadway v. Cade Wood, Inc. 583 So. 2d 153 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1991
649 , (1971) as authority for finding plaintiff’s injury compensable as a serious and permanent disfigurement.
Lescuer v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. 552 So. 2d 521 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 1989
Bourgeois v. Houma General Painting 515 So. 2d 486 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1987
Two earlier cases compensated workers for the loss of their teeth: and Hanks v. CRC Holston, Inc., (La.
Varnado v. Sanders 477 So. 2d 1205 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1985
However, the Louisiana Supreme Court, held that an employee's loss of function is evaluated and compensable based on his natural body's loss of function, even though man-made artifices may temporarily alleviate the loss of function.
Bordelon v. Vulcan Materials Co. 472 So. 2d 5 La. 1985
Berkel v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. 462 So. 2d 1287 La. Ct. App. 5th Cir. 1985
Bordelon v. Vulcan Materials Co. 454 So. 2d 168 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1984
Hanks v. CRC Holston, Inc. 430 So. 2d 1340 La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 1983
Segura v. Louisiana Architects Selection Bd. 362 So. 2d 498 La. 1978
See, Jenkins v. Orleans Parish School Board, La., (ON REHEARING, 1975).
McGee v. State, Through Bd. of Commissioners 355 So. 2d 1079 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1978
Dragon v. Orleans Parish Sch. Bd. 347 So. 2d 306 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1977
Wallace v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 343 So. 2d 382 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1977