The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied the veteran's claim for an increased disability rating for facial disfigurement, currently rated at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: The appeal was not about service connection and thus did not involve any issues related to exposure or presumptive conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- facial disfigurement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0120267
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- Granted
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- Granted
The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the service-connected deviated septum, described as facial disfigurement, residuals of traumatic nasal fractures, effective from the date of his claim. The dermatophytosis of both feet was not shown to meet the criteria for a compensable rating.
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