I've heard of them, but because my mom was a surgical nurse for 40 years. She's always has positive things to say about stuff like that. I actually don't know what they did on me, but it had be something close. I had five laparoscopic incisions that were each only about an inch long. I know they do it using a camera. Smaller incisions instead of one big incision makes it so you don't have to stay in the hospital as long.