The Veteran's service-connected bilateral maxillary sinusitis does not meet the criteria for a higher disability rating as it is not productive of three or more incapacitating episodes per year requiring bed rest and treatment by a physician, or more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year characterized by headaches, pain, and purulent discharge or crusting.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's sinusitis does not meet the criteria for a higher rating as it is not productive of three or more incapacitating episodes per year requiring bed rest and treatment by a physician, or more than six non-incapacitating episodes per year characterized by headaches, pain, and purulent discharge or crusting.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral maxillary sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 19, 2013
- Citation
- 1330124
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