David, could you talk a little bit about mesh? That's a scary term to some people, but is it useful? Is it always needed? Can you give us a little bit of some information there?

Yeah, I think the one thing that people should understand is when they hear the word mesh, and I always tell people this, is that mesh is like saying car.

If you're going to buy an automobile, you walk into a dealer and you tell them, I'm here to buy a car.

And they're like, okay, well, that's great.

What make or model would you want? And it's very similar with meshes that there are different types, different advantages to some over others.

And I would tell you the most common thing we use is actually the most basic form, which is a flat sheet of a plastic material called polypropylene.

Now, whether or not it needs to be used all the time has a couple different caveats to it.

Okay, maybe a question you get asked more often than maybe any other one, and that's, do all hernias have to be repaired surgically? Are there non-operative repairs, or can you just watch them and do nothing with them?