The traditional surgery typically has a satisfaction rate of 90% a decade after surgery, he says.
Traditional surgery can be more effective because it allows more extensive repair of surrounding tissue, surgeons say.
More than a decade ago, medical-device companies began introducing stents to prop open arteries as an alternative to traditional surgery.
"It's not as aggressive a procedure" as traditional surgery but it isn't as effective based on patient satisfaction and elimination of acid in the esophagus, says Hiran C.
In a January study, Finnish researchers found nearly half of 48 patients who had a Nissen laparoscopic procedure, as the traditional surgery is called, were experiencing bloating and flatulence 15 years later.
Heartburn surgery is called fundoplication because it involves folding the fundus, or top portion of the stomach, onto the esophagus and fastening it there using stitches in traditional surgery or plastic fasteners in the case of the new surgery.
But some surgeons who perform traditional open surgery warn that the rush to offer the minimally invasive operation may compromise patients' health.
Traditional heartburn surgery involves tiny incisions in the abdomen, through which surgical tools are inserted and a new valve is created that prevents stomach contents from rising up.
Dubernard explained that traditional plastic surgery methods would not have been able to repair the damage to the woman's face, and that the wounds on it were worsening.
ThermaCool represents a growing trend in medical treatments away from traditional open surgery--which has longer recovery periods, often a higher risk of injury or death, and typically costs more--toward "knifeless, " or minimally invasive, procedures.
The single port keyhole surgery only took an hour and Mr Bayne was discharged from hospital the next day, as opposed to four to five days as is the case with traditional keyhole surgery.
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Neither is covered by traditional health insurance unless the surgery is needed because of accident or disease.
Heartburn surgery, whether traditional or the newer variety, typically involves general anesthesia and a night in the hospital, surgeons say.
So an increasing number of doctors are closing their traditional medical practices and opening cosmetic surgery centers.
Unlike traditional laparoscopy, single port keyhole surgery requires just one point of entry rather than multiple, and often no scar is left visible at all.
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The winner among undergraduate inventors was a team of four students at Johns Hopkins University, Leslie Myint, Daniel Peng, Andy Tu, and Stephen van Kooten, for FastStich, a breakthrough handheld machine for sewing sutures in abdominal surgery both faster and more safely than traditional methods allow.
After researching different treatments on the Internet, he elected to have laproscopic radical prostatectomy surgery -- a procedure less intrusive than traditional treatments.
The new surgery centres represent a move away from the traditional approach, under which urgent and non-urgent patients are treated in the same facilities, resulting in unnecessary delays for non-urgent cases.
If a patient agrees to surgery, they could end up having either the traditional or new operation.
Over time, however, he grew disappointed with the dismal results achieved using traditional methods to treat the symptoms, such as rest, heat pads, physical therapy and surgery.
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