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Consider Robotic Prostate SurgeryAdvantages The big advantage to robotic prostate surgery is that instruments different from the typical ones used in surgery can be used, often more slender, which results in smaller holes in the body. What this translates into for the patient is less scarring and faster healing. Robotic prostate surgery boasts of recovery times that can be weeks shorter than with traditional surgery, which means less immediate impact on someone's life. This is possible because the magnification and the design of the robot arms allow for more subtle movements than a surgeon could perform on his own. 
Disadvantages Most of the disadvantages in robotic prostate surgery affect the surgeon and not the patient. The most significant problem in this surgery is that the doctor doesn't receive any tactile feedback from the robotic arms. If there is any sort of resistance, the surgeon can't feel it, and that's a tradeoff that many surgeons would prefer to not have. For this same reason, robotic prostate surgery can be exhausting for surgeons not used to it. Since it is still a relatively new procedure, many surgeons are only just gaining practice with it, and so it's not as easy as traditional surgery. This means that even if you request robotic prostate surgery, you may have trouble receiving it in your area. Still, the advantages of such surgery are great enough that you should at least ask your doctor about the possibility of it, and hold some hope for a speedy recovery. |
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