Lap Band Surgery-A Long-Term Weight Loss Solution

Have you been trying unsuccessful for many years to lose weight? Do you have medical conditions do to obesity? You may want to consider lap band surgery.

Have you been considering gastric bypass surgery to help you lose weight and resolve health conditions from obesity? The newest type of gastric bypass surgery to become common is lap band surgery. Although lap band surgery has been performed for many years in Mexico, it has started being performed in recent years in the United States.

Lap band surgery is a type of gastric bypass surgery that is sometimes referred to as weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery. The major benefit that lap band surgery offers over the Roux-en-Y, the other type of gastric bypass surgery commonly performed, is recovery time. Your hospital stay and recovery period will be much shorter than the time required for a Roux-en-Y, because the lap band procedure is a much less invasive type of surgery.

Before any type of lap band surgery is performed, you will be required to go through many pre-operative tests and screenings. In most cases you will be required to meet with a psychiatrist and may be required to attend pre-operative and post-operative nutrition classes.

The purpose of lap band surgery is to restrict the size of the stomach, creating a small pouch, allowing limited food intake. This is done by placing a band around the stomach and adjusting it to control the size of the stomach.

A tiny incision is made on the outside of the stomach and the band is placed around the upper part of the stomach through that incision. This procedure considerably reduces the size of the stomach, allowing you to feel full with less food intake.

General anesthesia is required for lap band surgery and the process should take less than an hour to complete. The band can be inflated anytime after the procedure, allowing the recipient to continue to lose weight until their goal weight is reached. Saline is injected into a port under the skin in the stomach wall. This procedure takes about 15 minutes and is painless.