The Board has denied the veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for right knee arthritis, now post-right knee replacement, as there is no new and material evidence received since the last final denial of December 1999.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim because it simply reiterates that the veteran has a current right knee disorder but does not address whether this disorder is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Arthritis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0614909
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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