London Cartilage Clinic
Explore expert articles on cartilage care, regenerative treatments, and practical recovery advice from our specialist team.
An acellular collagen scaffold placed into a focal cartilage defect recruits progenitor cells from surrounding tissue to repair it; widespread osteoarthritis is a categorical exclusion because repair depends on cells from that surrounding tissue.
Hip pain caused by labral tears or femoroacetabular impingement in young women is routinely misattributed to gynaecological conditions, delaying diagnosis by an average of 32 months and risking progressive cartilage damage.
Unlike pain-management injections, ChondroFiller is a collagen scaffold that enables the patient's own cells to regenerate damaged jaw cartilage, delivered in a single outpatient ultrasound-guided procedure.
ChondroFiller injection achieves symptom relief in 70–85% of patients, with a reoperation rate of 3–8% — substantially lower than microfracture's 41% or ACI's 37%.
ChondroFiller is a CE Class III collagen scaffold; Liquid Cartilage is London Cartilage Clinic's keyhole surgical procedure that delivers that scaffold alongside biological adjuncts and, where indicated, the patient's own mesenchymal stem cells. This guide separates the two, sets out the device's CE credentials and published evidence, and explains UK self-pay costs for both the injection and the surgical pathway.
PRP can speed early recovery after ankle sprains, MFAT may ease pain in early hip osteoarthritis, and Arthrosamid offers a single long-lasting knee injection; the evidence is strongest for short-term symptom relief, not joint repair or a guaranteed delay to surgery.
