Dr. Gomoll specializes in minimally invasive treatment of joint injuries — from sports trauma to active-lifestyle wear-and-tear. His clinical focus is joint preservation: procedures that delay or avoid joint replacement by repairing damaged cartilage, ligaments, menisci, and realigning malaligned bones. He is widely recognized as one of the leading joint-preservation surgeons on the East Coast.
Knee specialty
In the knee, Dr. Gomoll performs procedures to repair meniscal injury, ACL tears, patellar instability, cartilage damage, and osteoarthritis. He has a large referral practice for failed prior ligament surgery — particularly revision ACL reconstruction. Routinely managing the complexities of young patients with multiple prior procedures has also made him a sought-after surgeon for primary ACL reconstruction.
Joint preservation philosophy
His main focus is on joint preservation — performing procedures intended to delay the need for joint replacement. Cartilage damage and early arthritis often develop after prior injury and surgery involving the ACL or meniscus, or in patients anatomically built in a way that leads to early degeneration.
Joint preservation is achieved through:
- Osteotomy — high tibial, distal femoral, or tibial tubercle, to correct malalignment
- Meniscal transplantation — replacing missing meniscus tissue with donor allograft
- Cartilage repair — including OCD repair, subchondral drilling (microfracture), OATS / mosaicplasty, osteochondral allograft transplantation, and autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI)
Watch: Dr. Gomoll on joint preservation
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Explore Dr. Gomoll's procedures
- All surgical treatments — full procedure overview
- Cartilage repair — MACI, OCA, OATS, microfracture
- Meniscal procedures — meniscectomy, repair, and transplantation
- Arthritis surgery — partial replacement, MISHA, patellofemoral replacement
- Regenerative medicine — PRP and clinical trials
- Surgical procedures explained — further reading from HSS and AAOS