The Veteran's service-connected residuals of a fractured nose with acute sinusitis have been granted, but the rating assigned is noncompensable.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms and diagnoses do not warrant a higher rating under any applicable diagnostic code.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a fractured nose, acute sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- February 8, 2018
- Citation
- 1808207
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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