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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.
During knee replacement surgery, the surgeon takes damaged cartilage and bone out of the knee joint and replaces them with a manmade joint. The operation is also called knee arthroplasty, and it's one of the most common bone surgeries in the U.S.