The Board granted service connection for a right hip donor scar site and assigned a 10 percent evaluation, effective from February 1999. The veteran's claim for an increased rating was also granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found the right hip scar to be superficial with intermittent pain but no ulceration or limitation of motion.
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary retrognathia, malocclusion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0313362
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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