This document discusses several surgical repair techniques for the ascending aorta from 1964 to 1981: the Wheat procedure uses a supracoronary graft above the coronary arteries; the Bental and De Bono procedure uses a composite graft for the ascending aorta and aortic valve along with grafting the coronary arteries; the modified Bental procedure removes a "button" of aorta around the coronary ostia and attaches it to the composite graft; the Cabrol procedure uses a composite graft of the aortic root along with an aortic valve graft and prosthetic conduit.