“…In 1878, Berthold, used a skin graft and in 1887, Blake recommended the use of a piece of paper as a template to tympanic membrane regeneration1. Notwithstanding, it was only after 1944, with the beginning of antibiotics and with the improvement in surgical techniques that other materials were used as grafts in tympanoplasties 1,2 . After this time, in 1952, Zollner and Wullstein published their methods, using retroauricular skin grafts; however they did not succeed in treating tympanic membrane perforations 1,2,4,5,6 .…”