Patent ID: 8021367

Claim:
A method of repairing bunions using a first pin comprising: making an incision over a first metatarsal phalangeal joint; removing bunions from a side of a first metatarsal head; drilling a pilot hole in a first metatarsal below a dorsal medial surface of the first metatarsal head at a lateral and plantar declination; advancing a distal portion of the first pin in the pilot hole toward a long axis of a first metatarsal shaft at an inferior and distal portion of the first metatarsal such that a trocar tip of the first pin advances past a plantar cortex, the first pin having a proximal portion made of a bioabsorbable material; cutting the distal portion of the first pin and drilling retrograde until the first pin rests flush with the plantar cortex of the first metatarsal head; and cutting the proximal portion of the first pin flush to the first metatarsal.