Ceramic implant placement systems and superelastic suture retention loops for use therewith

An implant placement system for affixing a soft tissue graft to a prepared socket in a boney surface via an anchoring implant, said system comprising:

• a. a cannulated driver device comprising a proximal handle portion having an open proximal end, an elongate tubular distal portion that defines the longitudinal axis of the system and includes an open distal end configured to receive said implant, and at least one driver lumen extending from said open proximal end to said open distal end;
• b. an elongate cannulated insertion device comprising a proximal hub portion having an open proximal end, a rigid distal portion that includes an open distal end, and at least one insertion lumen extending from open proximal end to said open distal end;
• and
• c. an elongate element formed from a suitably elastic metallic or polymeric material and having a first configuration characterized by first and second free proximal ends and distal end in the form of a suture capturing loop configured to receive the first ends of one or more elongate sutures;
• wherein:
• i. said insertion device is slidably received within said at least one driver lumen such that rigid distal portion extends out of the open distal end of said driver device and distally past the distal end of said implant when coupled to said driver device;
• and
• ii. said elongate element in said first configuration is slidably received within said at least one insertion lumen such that the suture capturing loop extends out of and distally past the open distal end of said insertion device so as to enable said suture capturing loop to receive said suture first ends.