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If you are severely overweight, losing weight with Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding surgery can improve your health, reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, hypertension and other serious conditions, and significantly improve your quality of life.

How it works

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding helps you achieve sustained weight loss by limiting how much you eat, reducing your appetite and slowing digestion. The surgeons place an inflatable silicone ring around the upper part of your stomach. The new, small upper stomach pouch limits the amount of food you can consume at one time, and a narrowed stomach outlet increases the time it takes for the stomach to empty. You feel full sooner, and stay full without feeling hungry between meals.

The band is connected to an access port beneath your skin - the doctors can adjust the tightness of the band by adding or removing saline solution as needed to ensure adequate weight loss.

Advantages of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

There is minimal trauma. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding is the least invasive surgical option for weight loss, and is the only one that does not require cutting or stapling of the stomach wall or bowel. Small incisions mean minimal scarring, and the laparoscopic technique means you have less pain and a shorter recovery time.

There are fewer risks and side effects. When compared to other obesity surgeries, gastric banding has a much lower risk of complication, nutritional deficiencies and mortality.

It’s adjustable. Because the band can be tightened or loosened without surgery, every patient gets the right degree of restriction to achieve healthy, long-term weight loss. And should you become pregnant or ill, the band can be adjusted to accommodate more food.

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding surgery is reversible. Although it is designed to be permanent, the band can be removed any time if needed, and your stomach will return to its original form and function.

It’s an excellent option for effective long-term weight loss. To date, there have been more than 300,000 Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding surgeries successfully performed worldwide, proving that this procedure is safe and effective.

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