The Board has granted service connection for left ear mixed hearing loss and right ear sensorineural hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's preexisting conditions were aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran sustained acoustic trauma during service which caused permanent nerve damage leading to early signs of hearing loss that developed into current sensorineural hearing loss. The in-service acoustic trauma was considered aggravation of a pre-existing condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Left ear mixed hearing loss, Right ear sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 9, 2022
- Citation
- 22045089
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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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