The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and his request for an increased rating for pansinusitis with allergic rhinitis, finding that new and material evidence was not received to reopen the hearing loss claim and that the current disability ratings were appropriate.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation as it failed to demonstrate three or more incapacitating episodes per year of sinusitis requiring prolonged antibiotic treatment or six non-incapacitating episodes per year characterized by headaches, pain, and purulent discharge or crusting.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, pansinusitis with allergic rhinitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0613133
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