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Adult cartilage is a highly organized tissue with a paucity of blood vessels which predisposes it to relatively minimal healing response. Adolescent cartilage has much better healing properties that adult cartilage. The healing response of cartilage can be accelerated by stimulating bleeding into the defect using techniques such as the microfracture procedure.
