Patent ID: 6858042

Claim:
A device ( 10 ) for repairing cartilage defects or cartilage/bone defects in human or animal joints, said device comprising a bone part ( 11 ), a cartilage layer ( 2 ) grown onto the bone part ( 1 ) and forming a cartilage surface ( 3 ), and a subchondral bone plate ( 4 ) or an imitation of a such a bone plate in a transition region between the bone part ( 1 ) and the cartilage layer ( 2 ), said device being implantable into an opening or a bore ( 20 ) set up in a defective region such that the bone part is adapted to be ordered in the healthy bone tissue and the cartilage surface ( 3 ) is flush with a native cartilage surface ( 3 ′), wherein for supporting the subchondral bone plate ( 4 ) and the cartilage layer ( 2 ) of the implanted device on at least two materials with differing resorbabilities, a cross-section of the bone part ( 1 ) is smaller than a cross section of the subchondral bone plate ( 4 ) and the cartilage layer ( 2 ) or the bone part has column regions ( 40 , 41 ) that extend to the subchondral bone plate ( 4 ) and have a resorbability different from a resorbability of the regions between the column regions.