Patent ID: 11911278
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc, comprising:
a TMJ scaffold structure comprising a freeze-dried, decellularized fibrocartilage tissue from a subject animal, the TMJ scaffold structure having a plurality of drilled holes in the scaffold structure,
wherein the TMJ scaffold structure is obtained from a precursor TMJ scaffold structure comprising said fibrocartilage tissue from a subject animal,
wherein the freeze-dried, decellularized fibrocartilage tissue has a compressive modulus and a peak stress value less than that of a corresponding sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) decellularized fibrocartilage tissue that has never been freeze-dried.