The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and updated VA treatment records.
The deciding factor: Additional examinations are required as the Veteran has reported new symptoms that were not addressed in previous evaluations, including use of a knee brace and difficulty chewing due to jaw issues.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a right patella fracture, status post mandibular fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2016
- Citation
- 1623098
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for increased ratings of 10 percent and 20 percent for left lower extremity radiculopathy and residuals of a right patella fracture, respectively.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities of bilateral hearing loss, left shoulder degenerative joint disease, tinnitus, and status post mandibular fracture are reasonably shown to be of such nature and severity as to prevent him from maintaining substantially gainful employment. Therefore, a TDIU rating is granted.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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