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Surgical repair is an effective and durable treatment for PFD, and synthetic and biological materials can be used to enforce or reinforce the diseased tissue. However, synthetic materials such as polypropylene patches caused a series of complications such as mesh erosion, exposure, pain, and inflammation. The poor mechanical properties and high degradation speed of the biomaterial meshes resulted in poor anatomical reduction effect and limitation to clinical application. Therefore, the current treatment options are suboptimal. Recently, tissue-engineered repair material (TERM) has been applied to repair PFD and could markedly improve the prognosis of POP and SUI repair surgery in animal models. We review the directions and progression of TERM in POP and SUI repair. Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) and endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs) appear to be suitable cell types for scaffold seeding and clinical implantation. 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