The Board granted an effective date of August 29, 2001 for a 30 percent rating for occlusal trauma due to bruxism with temporomandibular joint symptoms and found the veteran's incontinence secondary to her service-connected Cesarean section scar. The other claims were denied.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the veteran had current disability from urinary incontinence that was proximately due to or the result of her service-connected Cesarean section scar, but did not have a reaction to morphine or early menopause.
- Claimed conditions
- sinusitis with headaches, incontinence, morphine reaction, early menopause
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 27, 2004
- Citation
- 0405468
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