11.   Now, as sex-change surgery becomes more mainstream, the road to Trinidad is less traveled.

12.   Outpatient surgery has become more common during the past decade as new techniques enabled doctors to do more procedures with minimal patient trauma at lower costs.

13.   The study results mean the surgery could become a viable alternative to the artery-opening procedure known as angioplasty, according to researchers from New York University.

14.   The surgery is even becoming an affordable fashion statement for middle-class folks.

15.   Today knee surgery has become a sign of the times.

16.   Her surgery became necessary after she contracted a respiratory infection and had difficulty breathing.

17.   Laser surgery has become popular among tour players during the past few years.

18.   Surgery has become much more common.

19.   Heart bypass surgery has become routine in the West, but it is a complicated, delicate medical plumbing job.