Anchors used in shoulder surgery are typically no more than three millimeters in diameter, with newer anchors being as small as 1.8 millimeters.

“the ones that are purely basically braided polyester those go in as a as just a the suture goes in and then as you carefully pull it back out the way they're designed they ball up and it creates a I mean they're super strong”

“in so that you're drilling into hard bone and then the anchor inserts through that and um so they're not circumferential no they're just straight in correct”

“so you drill a little hole in the glenoid fausa  what's the diameter of that hole  Yeah so it it depends on what kind of anchor you're doing usually roughly not more than 3 millimet  and now we're down to 1.8 okay even three seems big three seems big but you that's what you fit the the plastic or the  absorbable anchor in and that you just kind of tap in with the Mallet all of them you tap in with the Mallet and you're drilling into the bone you're drilling around here kind of this angle here and you have to get the angle right it's a very three-dimensional but you put them in so that you're drilling into hard bone and then the anchor inserts through that  and  so they're not circumferential no they're just straight in correct we used if we did them open we used to do them even with drill holes and a drill going through circumfer so what holds the anchor in is it just the pressure you're putting an anchor in that is bigger than the hole and so like a nail yes exactly and or a t not not a screw they not screwed”