Should my mbp come with a system restore cd

I was using disk utility to check my startup volume, and found that it "may be corrupt" and was told to use the Mac OSx installation disk that came with my mac to repair the disk.  I dont recall receiving an installation disk.  What can I do now?

The Lion Restore partition was Installed on your Hard Drive. To access it, Restart and hold down Command-R, and it will boot to an equivalent of what used to come on the Installer/Utilities/Restore DVD.

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