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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.
Microfracture chondroplasty is a relatively new procedure that allows growth of cartilage in the injured joint. Lack of blood supply to the area of articular cartilage injury is at least partially responsible for inability of the articular cartilage to repair itself.