Do not have a hysterectomy via the DaVinci, you will have 5 scars across your stomach like a road map, the scars are situated at the line of your belly button or just above. There is a reason the bikini incision was invented. I actually had a bikini incision from years ago, a specialist I am seeing now told me the doc should have chosen to go through the bikini incision I already had, doc made a poor decision. Living in FL it's the worst choice ever. Down time is still the same, on the website it hypes it up, no such thing, even if you had another wk or 2 more down time, it far surpasses the 5 horrible scars