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Yi Ni used Heegaard Floer Homology to prove, among many other things, that a knot admitting a lens-space surgery is fibred. I believe that no 'conventional' proof of this is known.

Ni, Yi, Knot Floer homology detects fibred knots. Invent. Math. 170 (2007), no. 3, 577–608.