The Board has determined that the veteran's bilateral pterygium began during service and granted service connection for this condition. The claim for residuals of a facial injury was denied as there is no credible evidence linking these current issues to service.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence does not support a finding that the current nose, tooth, or other problems are related to claimed facial injury in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral pterygium, Residuals of facial injury (including broken nose and loss of four upper front teeth)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0300101
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 685 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected bilateral pterygium is denied for a compensable rating prior to October 11, 2015 and for any increased rating from that date.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the RO failing to address his claims for a higher rating and whether his astigmatism and diplopia are related to his service-connected bilateral pterygium. The case will be returned for further examination.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected bilateral pterygium, dry eye syndrome, and photophobia are granted a 10 percent disability rating effective October 24, 2016.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable disability rating for bilateral pterygium, finding that his loss of visual acuity was due to his nonservice-connected cataracts and not his service-connected pterygium.
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