Table 2.

Rubric for qualitative scoring of healing.

	Poor	Moderate	Good
10 or 14 dpi	Minimal/no cartilage, and if cartilage does exist, it is located near cut ends and does not fill resection gap	Moderate cartilage production, incomplete bridging, appears unclear if injury will fully heal at extended time points	Substantial and thick cartilage production bridging the injury site
28 dpi	Little bone production. Injured bone end remains very disconnected	Moderate bone production. Some cartilage may still be present. Cuts end are not completely bridged, but appears full thickness healing is still possible	Injury site fully connected with thick newly generate bone

A rubric was used to define healing as Poor, Moderate, or Good.