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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 surgery is one of the surgical procedures available to try and heal knee cartilage injuries. A microfracture is a knee surgery technique which involves making multiple small holes in the bone. Those holes allow bone marrow stem cells to enter and cover the cartilage defect(see pictures below). For months after the surgery a repair cartilage should start to grow.