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>> Minimally invasive surgery is a way of doing surgery
where we don't make traditionally big incisions.
Really what we're doing is making small, little incisions and then we put instruments
and cameras through those incisions so we get sometimes even better visualization
and then can achieve the same operation on the inside but all the patient sees
and the family sees are these little scars and they have less pain in general and they tend
to get out of the hospital faster and get back to their regular activities sooner.
So it has a lot of benefits for patients.
>> Well, if you do an incision that's 2 centimeters long, that will be 6,
8 inches when they're an adult and it will be caved in and it will be a really big deformity
and it's nice when there's just little incisions that you --
after the kid gets older, you don't even see anymore.
So it's really nice because, you know, the teenage years,
they usually care a little bit about, you know, what their scars look like.
So it's really nice to have -- be able to offer an operation that gets the job done,
gets it done really well but it doesn't leave your child with this, you know,
large sign that the surgeons were there for the rest of their lives.
>> We deal with a lot of really difficult situations in pediatric surgery
so families coming in with maybe a child who's been totally healthy
and now they have maybe something that's serious or even life threatening,
we're going to do everything we can for their child in that we have all the technologies,
the latest technologies available and latest techniques that we can bring to them
to not only help solve the problem but hopefully do it in a way that's, you know, easier on them,
will allow them to recover faster so I think that can help to, you know,
to reassure them in just knowing that there's such a large group of pediatric surgeons here
and so much expertise that's going to be committed to giving them, you know,
the best outcome of really what's a really scary situation.
>> Find out that you have to have surgery is one thing but to find
out your kids needs surgery is entirely a different one.
If my child needed an operation and I had a choice, there's no doubt about it,
I would take him to somebody that was good, minimally invasive surgery.
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