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There are also a number of alternative surgical techniques that are sometimes used to treat cartilage damage, including: 1  Allograft osteochondral transplantation (AOT) â similar to mosaicplasty, but the replacement cartilage is obtained from a recently deceased donor and is used to repair larger damaged areas.
Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has been the first biological approach to the cartilage lesions [6, 25]. ACI is a two-stage operation. In the first surgery, pieces of healthy cartilage are harvested from a less-weight-bearing area of the articular surface.