EDITORIALOne year ago, we had the honor of writing our first Editorial for the Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, entitled "The Challenge of the Past". The text attempted to convey the responsibility of managing the Publications Department of our Journal, and continue this long and successful tradition of our major means of scientific disclosure. We thought we could anticipate the challenge we would have ahead of us. However, it was only after one year of work that we could appreciate the true size of such challenge and the repercussions of our actions.

The leading symptoms were improved by functional endoscopic sinus surgery but not so much we expect. Allergic rhinitis presenting, not using nasal spray, poor ambient control influenced this result. Polyps patient achieved better symptoms outcome and quality of life responses on the most of symptoms than CRS patients.

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Considering the results in this study, otomicroscopy did not represent a good method to evaluate myringosclerosis in this experimental model.

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