The Board has determined that the veteran's chronic maxillary sinusitis warrants a 10 percent rating, but not higher. The symptoms are consistent with a compensable rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms do not meet the criteria for a higher rating as they do not include incapacitating episodes of sinusitis requiring prolonged antibiotic treatment or more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year characterized by headaches, pain, and purulent discharge or crusting.
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0620478
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- Remanded (sent back)
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