The VA has determined that the veteran's service-connected maxillary sinusitis with allergic rhinitis and right nasal obstruction warrants a 10 percent evaluation, as it does not meet criteria for higher ratings.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show incapacitating episodes of sinusitis or more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year that would warrant a higher rating under the applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, right nasal obstruction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0638739
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