The Board has determined that the veteran's current bilateral defective hearing is not related to his military service, including any inservice noise exposure. As a result, service connection for this condition cannot be established.
The deciding factor: The VA otologist concluded that the veteran's current hearing loss was unrelated to military service, particularly inservice acoustic trauma and noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral defective hearing
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0638147
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- Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded for the veteran to be scheduled for a videoconference hearing with the Board at the VARO.
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