Nasal implants and systems and methods of use

A method of implanting an implant into a nasal tissue of a patient, the implant comprising a first end including a resiliently deformable portion configured to have a contracted first shape with a non-circular cross-section and an expanded second shape, the method comprising:

• providing the implant in the contracted first shape close to a distal end of a delivery conduit of a housing, the delivery conduit comprising an interior orienting portion with a cross-sectional shape configured to orient the implant relative to the delivery conduit;
• piercing a nasal tissue with a piercing end of the delivery conduit by moving the delivery conduit through the nasal tissue;
• advancing the implant out of the delivery conduit and/or retracting the delivery conduit to thereby expand the implant to the expanded second shape and to leave the implant in place in the nasal tissue, wherein the expanded second shape of the resiliently deformable portion corresponds to an orientation of the implant within the delivery conduit orientating portion;
• and
• removing the delivery conduit from the patient,
• wherein the resiliently deformable portion comprises two tines and the expanded second shape includes each end of the two tines pointing from the first end of the implant away from a second end of the implant that opposes the first end of the implant.

A method of implanting an implant into a nasal tissue of a patient, the implant comprising a first end including a resiliently deformable portion configured to have a contracted first shape with a non-circular cross-section and an expanded second shape, the method comprising:

• providing the implant in the contracted first shape close to a distal end of a delivery conduit of a housing, the delivery conduit comprising an interior orienting portion with a cross-sectional shape configured to orient the implant relative to the delivery conduit;
• piercing a nasal tissue with a piercing end of the delivery conduit by moving the delivery conduit through the nasal tissue;
• advancing the implant out of the delivery conduit and/or retracting the delivery conduit to thereby expand the implant to the expanded second shape and to leave the implant in place in the nasal tissue, wherein the expanded second shape of the resiliently deformable portion corresponds to an orientation of the implant within the delivery conduit orientating portion;
• and
• removing the delivery conduit from the patient,
• wherein the resiliently deformable portion of the expanded second shape points from the first end of the implant away from a second end of the implant that opposes the first end of the implant.