Fabrication Of Cartilage In Predetermined Shapes With Tissue Engineering Technology

Cartilage has a very limited self-repairing capacity and its repair depends mainly on the surgical reconstruction. Three methods are usually used in cartilage repair with various success. They are autotransplant, allotransplant and artificial materials. The main problem for these methods is the damage to the donor, no suitable shape for the recipient, rejection from the recipient, lack of enough cartilage and foreign body reaction, infection and degradation for the artificial materials. Therefore, it is still an important task for the doctors and scientists to explore a new way of cartilage reconstruction. In recent years, tissue engineering technology provides a new way for solving these problems. Tissue...