Patent ID: 8430909

Claim:
A method of soft tissue repair, comprising the steps of: attaching at least one suture to a soft tissue graft to be affixed to a bone; capturing the suture attached to the graft by passing the suture through an aperture of an implant releasably attached at a distal end of a driver such that the suture can slide freely through the aperture of the implant, the implant having a conical portion terminating in a pointed tip at its most distal end; inserting the implant having a pointed tip and the suture passing through the implant into the bone using the driver, without pre-drilling a hole in the bone; pulling on one end of the suture to draw the suture through the aperture of the implant such that the soft tissue graft attached to the suture is drawn toward the bone; and advancing an interference device, preloaded on the driver, toward the distal end of the driver to securely engage and lock the implant and the suture in the bone.