The Board found that the Veteran's right ear sensorineural hearing loss did not become manifest during service or to a compensable degree within one year after discharge from service and is not etiologically related to service. Therefore, the claim for service connection was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that the Veteran had right ear hearing loss to a compensable degree within one year of separation from service, nor did it establish a link between his current condition and military noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Right ear sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2014
- Citation
- 1447384
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right ear sensorineural hearing loss due to noise exposure during service. However, the initial rating for bilateral hearing loss (left ear) remains noncompensable.
- Denied
The Veteran's right ear sensorineural hearing loss is rated as noncompensable, with no worse than Level I hearing loss in the right ear.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right ear sensorineural hearing loss, but denied service connection for left ear sensorineural hearing loss.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's right ear sensorineural hearing loss is related to his in-service noise exposure and grants service connection for this condition.
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