Patent ID: 7740576

Claim:
A method for supporting vaginal tissue, the method comprising: providing an implant comprising a tissue support portion and an end portion extending from the tissue support portion, creating a vaginal incision, placing the tissue support portion in contact with vaginal tissue in a position to support the vaginal tissue, producing a tissue path between the position of the tissue support portion and an exterior incision, the tissue path passing through tissue of a coccyx region bounded by an upper edge of a sacrospinous ligament, a tip of a coccyx bone, a point approximately 2.5 centimeters lateral to the tip of the coccyx bone, and an ischial spine, associating a tip of a needle with the end portion of the implant, and inserting the needle tip and associated end portion into the vagina and transvaginally through the vaginal incision, and pushing the needle tip and end portion of the implant through the tissue path and through the external incision thereby extending the end portion through the tissue path to the external incision.