Doctor my wife is having gallbladder stones...is surgery necessary for that?

Does she have pain?: The only definitive treatment of gallbladder disease is to remove the "gallstone factory".Thankfully, this can usually be removed via out-patient laparoscopic surgery. Like all operations, there are risks and it is up to your wife & her surgeon to decide if the benefits of this operation outweigh the risks. However, if she has stones that are "silent"--not causing symptoms--we don't recommend rx.

Not necessarily: Gallstones are common - 25% of women by age 60 and 20% of men by age 75 but they usually don't cause symptoms. This is called cholelithiasis. When symptoms arise, its cholecystitis and this usually requires surgical intervention.