The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the claim for service connection for recurrent right shoulder dislocations, thus the claim remains denied.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not provide a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim as it is cumulative or redundant and does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent right shoulder dislocations
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2007
- Citation
- 0707455
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