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The authors report the following potential conflicts of interest or sources of funding: T.J.G. reports personal fees from Vericel, Arthrex , and AlloSource , outside the submitted work. L.W. reports personal fees from Zimmer Biomet , Allergan , and Synthes, outside the submitted work. J.T.R.L. reports other from Sawbones, outside the submitted work. Full ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.