Many patients, including even some physicians, question the need for laparoscopic surgery for a hernia. They believe that a hernia is a minor surgery and that previous surgical methods, such as open traditional surgery with a groin incision, have been used for many years and can basically solve the problem. So why is laparoscopic surgery needed for a hernia? What exactly are the advantages and the need for it? Is every patient suitable for minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery? Here we answer these questions: 1. What is a hernia (inguinal hernia)? Simply put, a hernia is actually a physical breakage of the abdominal wall membrane, and therefore, the fundamental approach to treatment is the need to repair the damaged abdominal wall membrane so as to achieve eradication. Therefore, the only treatment for a hernia is surgery. Other so-called treatments now, such as drug therapy, hernia belt therapy, and sclerotherapy injections, are ineffective or even harmful. 2. What are the surgical options for hernia? Since the only treatment for hernia is surgery, how many options are there? There are traditional methods, open tension-free repair and minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. 3. What is the difference between these types of surgery? The traditional surgical approach, as opposed to tension-free, does not place a patch and thus has a high recurrence rate and severe postoperative pain for the patient. Therefore, the current gold standard, and international consensus, is to do a tension-free repair. However, there are two types of tension-free repair: non-laparoscopic and laparoscopic minimally invasive tension-free. 4. What are the advantages of laparoscopic minimally invasive apheresis? The advantages are: exact extent of repair, minimal pain, fast postoperative recovery, and low recurrence rate (less than 1%). 5. How is minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery achieved? Why is it possible to do it with three small holes? How is the patch put in? This is a question that many patients ask. First of all, the patch is very soft and thin, which is the difference between laparoscopic patches and other traditional patches. The lifelong patch material placed in the body is very thin and light, like a piece of paper, so it can be rolled up and placed in the defect (hernia) through the small holes, with the aid of a mirror, and spread very well, even more flatly than in traditional open surgery, resulting in high postoperative comfort and low recurrence rate. This results in high postoperative comfort and low recurrence rate. 6. One last question. Is the patch lifelong? Are there any side effects? Yes, it is lifelong. The ultra-thin patch is organically integrated with the body and grows into its own tissue, therefore, the patch does not need to be removed unless it is infected, and the infection rate of laparoscopy can be basically ruled out with strict attention (I have never had a case of infection). Fifty years of international clinical use have shown that patches have no side effects.