The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the Veteran's claims for service connection for eustachian tube dysfunction and chronic ethmoid sinusitis. As such, these claims remain denied.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not establish a current diagnosis of eustachian tube dysfunction or chronic ethmoid sinusitis that is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- eustachian tube dysfunction, chronic ethmoid sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19142737
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Decisions by this judge: 1,515 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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