The Veteran's frontal sinusitis is rated as chronic based on imaging studies only, with no current symptoms or episodes requiring treatment. The appeal for an increased rating is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has no current incapacitating episodes of sinusitis and no non-incapacitating episodes warranting a higher rating under the applicable diagnostic code.
- Claimed conditions
- frontal sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2023
- Citation
- 23065576
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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