The Board has granted service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, but denied service connection for perforation of the right tympanic membrane. The mixed type hearing loss in the right ear is considered to have both a conductive and an SNHL component.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the right ear hearing loss was a mixed type, with both a conductive and an SNHL component.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL), Perforation of Right Tympanic Membrane
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- February 20, 2015
- Citation
- 1507438
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