The Board has denied the appellant's claim of service connection for an inner ear disorder due to a lack of evidence showing current disability or a link between the claimed condition and service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not demonstrate that the appellant currently suffers from any inner ear disorder, nor is there sufficient evidence linking his alleged in-service inner ear problem to his current symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- inner ear disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0006211
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- Denied
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