The Board has determined that the veteran's claims of service connection for a perforated right eardrum and defective hearing are well grounded. The RO is instructed to schedule the veteran for an examination, obtain relevant medical records, and then adjudicate the claims based on the evidence.
The deciding factor: The claims were found to be well-grounded due to competent evidence showing current disabilities that may be related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Perforated right eardrum, Defective hearing
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2000
- Citation
- 0000819
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a compensable rating for residuals of perforated right eardrum was denied.,Service connection and an initial separate 10 percent rating for tinnitus were granted, but the effective date is not earlier than September 12, 2016.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including defective hearing and shell fragment wounds, make it impossible for him to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
- Remanded (sent back)
The case is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining audiogram results from VA treatment records.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a perforated right eardrum, finding that the evidence did not support a causal relationship between the condition and in-service noise exposure.
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