New devices, drugs and therapies, and technological advances are coming to medicine in general at a very rapid pace. Literally hundreds of new or updated or upgraded lasers alone have hit the marketplace over the last decade. Everything that is now "old hat" was new at some point, and being used by some practitioner for the first time.
A well-trained surgeon or physician who educates himself about the newest technical and therapeutic advances, and who exercises good judgement in selecting the proper circumstances in which to employ the newest advance, is much more critical than the device itself. Most often, the new device has been studied and tried in simulation by the doctor before it is used for the first time in practice. But even the pilot of a jumbo jet has to climb into the real cockpit and out of the simulator eventually, so the training and judgement is what is important, and experience comes later.
If you trust your doctor, you should believe that he wouldn't do anything to harm you, or that he did not himself feel capable of doing well.
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