Despite advances in all areas of medical technology, there continue to be few choices for women in American with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The options available often fail to represent complete cures, or elimination of symptoms.

Although for years, doctors considered the abdominal colposuspension (Burch) procedure to be the "gold standard" for treating SUI with surgery, a recent multi-center, randomized clinical trial comparing the Burch to the sling...