An implant suitable for being anchored with the aid of mechanical
vibration in an opening provided in bone tissue. The implant is
compressible in the direction of a compression axis under local
enlargement of a distance between a peripheral implant surface and the
compression axis. The implant includes a coupling-in face which serves
for coupling a compressing force and the mechanical vibrations into the
implant, which coupling-in face is not parallel to the compression axis.
The implant also includes a thermoplastic material which, in areas of the
local distance enlargement, forms at least a part of the peripheral
surface of the implant.