Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of a TDIU rating and increased ratings for left ankle and Achilles strain, as well as service connection for dental avulsion of tooth number 9 (left upper central incisor) for compensation purposes, was dismissed due to concurrent elections for review being prohibited.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's requests for higher-level review satisfy the legal requirements for opting into the Appeals Modernization Act (AMA) review system, but he cannot pursue two concurrent lanes of administrative review for the same issue.
- Claimed conditions
- Left upper central incisor avulsion
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 20, 2025
- Citation
- 25003827
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