Patent ID: 7674274

Claim:
A method for securing connective tissue to bone, comprising: securing a first end of a length of suture to a portion of soft tissue to be attached to a portion of bone; threading a second end of the length of suture through an aperture in a body of a bone anchor implant; disposing said bone anchor implant within a lumen of a tube, the implant comprising an elliptical disk, said lumen applying tension to said elliptical disk such that said elliptical disk is disposed in a bent orientation having a reduced cross-section and held in a generally V-shaped profile; inserting a distal end of said tube into a hole within said portion of bone such that the distal end is stopped at a depth approximately equal to the depth of the interface between cortical bone and cancellous bone; and deploying said implant from the distal end of said tube, whereby tension to said elliptical disk is removed and said disk is returned to an expanded orientation having a flat profile such that said disk engages the cancellous bone.