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A new cost effective cartilage treatment with Smart Shot - Joseph Saladino on BoneChat short

23 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Joseph Saladino's company Smart Shot offers surgeons a cost-effective way to treat small cartilage injuries, which affect nearly one million Americans. Cartilage damage shows up in 60% of arthroscopic procedures, yet most patients lack affordable treatment options for these painful lesions.

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The, uh, purpose of the company that we established is to heal painful joint injuries by empowering surgeons with a cost-effective regenerative solution. And the problem that we're addressing are cartilage injuries, and, and particular small cartilage injuries. I mean, we're, we're looking at nearly a million just in the US alone experiencing cartilage injuries, and I'm not talking about osteoarthritis. I'm talking about potholes, scratches, damage to the cartilage that can degrade over time and, and get worse. Key, arthroscopy, they're gonna discover cartilage injuries in 60% of those. And the vast majority of those are gonna be small cartilage defects. And those have a real impact on patient lifestyle.