The use of pedicle or free tissue grafts to cover denuded roots is considered a hallmark of modern periodontics. Recently, we came upon several publications which make it necessary to revise the historical origins of these procedures. In the Dental Cosmos of 1904 there appears a synopsis of a meeting of the American Dental Club of Paris which took place on December 6, 1902 at the office of Drs. (A.B.) Crane and (M.P.) Younger.1 At this meeting Dr. Younger reported that he successfully restored gum on a denuded root by grafting a piece taken from behind the third molar of the same mouth. It was reported that the graft did contract greatly, but Dr. Younger was still able to obtain ... an increase of tissue about equal to one-fourth of the bulk of the graft. On June 8, 1906 at a joint meeting of the Maryland State Dental Association and the District of Columbia Dental Society held in Washington, DC, Dr. A. W. Harlan presented a paper titled, Restoration of Gum Tissue on the Labial Aspect of Teeth. This presentation