Response to the Letter to the Editor regarding "Comparison of temporalis fascia muscle and full-thickness cartilage grafts in type 1 pediatric tympanoplasties" by Yegin et al. (Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2016;82:695-701).

e would like to thank Dr. Zheng-cai Lou for valuable and recise comments on our article.1 Firstly, the main outomes of type 1 pediatric tympanoplasty are the graft uccess rates and postoperative hearing outcomes. Our esults indicate that the graft success rate was 92.1% f the cartilage group compared with 65.0% of the temoral fascia group, respectively. In the fascia group, reoperative ABG was 33.68 ± 11.44 dB and postoperative BG was 24.25 ± 12.68 dB. In cartilage group, preoperaive ABG was 35.68 ± 12.94 dB and postoperative ABG was 6.113 ± 12.87 dB. The anatomical success rate of cartilage roup was significantly better than fascia group (p < 0.01). here was no significant difference among functional outomes between fascia and cartilage groups (p > 0.05). The hickness of tragal cartilage was accurately measured by a icrometer and recorded intraoperatively. A regular whole-