The authors present the simple technics of eye lid repair. The loss of skin and possibly of M. orbicularis oculi, is differentiated from that of the complete thickness of the eye-lid. The first can be treated by free Thiersch or Wolfe-Krause-split-skin graft or full thickness skin grafts, the second by direct suture or by various local advancement flaps according to the "quarter" rule of Mustarde.