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Surgeons who perform this procedure should understand the cartilage characteristics of the graft after 21 days of commercial storage in serum-free media.

We confirm that septal cartilage has weaker tensile properties compared to articular cartilage and found no difference in strength with respect to age, gender, or axis of tension (isotropic).

This study provides new information on the compressive properties of septal cartilage along different axes of compression. The results demonstrate that human septal cartilage is anisotropic; the compressive stiffness is higher in the vertical and caudal-cephalic orientations than in the medial orientation. Additionally, the medial orientation tends to have the greatest permeability. The data obtained in this study provide a reference to which various craniofacial reconstruction materials and tissue-engineered neocartilage can be compared.