The Board remands the claim for service connection for left ear hearing loss to obtain an addendum medical opinion as required by prior remand directives.
The deciding factor: The August 2025 VA examiner's opinions are found inadequate due to internal inconsistencies and failure to address specific personal or environmental factors related to the Veteran, as well as a lack of adequate rationale for dismissing peer-reviewed studies supporting an association between temporomandibular joint disorders and hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- left ear hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- 25013952
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