Treating Patellar Chondral Defect with BioCartilage®

Chris Dougherty, DO, FAOAO, (Bentonville, AR) provides an in-depth review of options and techniques for treating cartilage defects of the patella and why he uses BioCartilage in his practice. BioCartilage was designed to provide a reproducible, simple and inexpensive method to augment traditional microfracture procedures. The principle of BioCartilage is to serve as a scaffold over a microfractured defect, providing a tissue network that can potentially signal autologous cellular interactions.