The Food and Drug Administration has ordered medical device manufacturers to study safety complications with surgical mesh used in women’s pelvic surgeries. In April an FDA report found that women who have the surgical mesh implanted are at greater risk of pain , bleeding and infection than women who have traditional surgery with stitches.
For more information visit the FDA website at:
http://http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandPro