The Board has granted a 10 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected left ear otitis media and healed perforation, which is currently rated as noncompensable.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence supports a 10 percent rating based on the presence of suppuration in the left ear.
- Claimed conditions
- left otitis media, healed perforation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 12, 2005
- Citation
- 0500881
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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.
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- Denied
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- Denied
The veteran's claims for initial disability ratings for bilateral hearing loss, recurrent tinnitus, and left otitis media were denied. The RO assigned a ten percent rating for the service-connected tinnitus but did not assign separate ratings for each ear as requested.
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