Surgical instruments
OwnerLee D. KAPLANinventor
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Abstract
A method of using a knotless suture anchor includes boring a nest in a bone, driving the suture anchor into the nest, tensioning an unknotted suture; and securing the unknotted suture in an anchor body by contacting the unknotted suture with an inner bottom surface of the well and a bottom face of an anchor plug, where the suture anchor includes the anchor body including a well, a top surface, a bottom surface distal to the top surface, a transverse bore proximal to the inner bottom surface of the well, and he unknotted suture threaded through the transverse bore; where the well includes an outer surface; an inner surface; and the inner bottom surface; and where the anchor plug includes a post; and the bottom face.
Claims8
A method of using a knotless suture anchor, the suture anchor comprising:
- an anchor body comprising:
- a well comprising:
- an outer surface;
- an inner surface;
- and
- an inner bottom surface;
- a top surface;
- a bottom surface distal to the top surface;
- a transverse bore proximal to the inner bottom surface of the well;
- and
- an unknotted suture threaded through the transverse bore;
- an anchor plug comprising:
- a post;
- and
- a bottom face;
- the method comprising:
- boring a nest in a bone;
- driving the suture anchor into the nest;
- tensioning the unknotted suture;
- and
- securing the unknotted suture in the anchor body by contacting the unknotted suture with the inner bottom surface of the well and the bottom face of the anchor plug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.