The Board has determined that the Veteran does not meet the criteria for service connection or increased ratings for his claimed conditions. The evidence does not support a finding of current skin disability, maxillary sinusitis with more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year, mandible malunion with moderate displacement, or left eye retinal detachment with healed scar warranting an increase in rating.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not establish the presence of any currently diagnosed skin disability, maxillary sinusitis with more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year, mandible malunion with moderate displacement, or left eye retinal detachment with healed scar that would support a grant of service connection or an increased rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Skin disability, Maxillary sinusitis, Left mandible fracture, Left eye retinal detachment with healed scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2010
- Citation
- 1018235
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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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