The Board denied an increased rating for tonsillitis and pharyngitis, a denial of an earlier effective date for rhinosinusitis, and a denial of an increased rating for rhinosinusitis. The conditions are currently rated as 10 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: There was no ascertainable increase in disability within one year prior to the receipt of the claim for an increased rating.
- Claimed conditions
- tonsillitis, pharyngitis, rhinosinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0003314
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