TYPES OF SURGERIES

Why should I choose surgery to lose weight? Unfortunately, although diets work for a little while, the effects seldom last and the answer to Morbid obesity needs to last a lifetime. No diet program, even the drug programs such as Redux and Fastin are powerful or adequately long-lasting enough to reduce the necessary sustained weight loss in the severely obese. There has never been a scientific study which has shown that dietary management is beneficial or effective in the severely obese.

Look at how much your health is at risk and consider taking some risk to achieve a more lasting solution, surgery, to change your body's physiology, and to help you to gain control on your weight. In our opinion, surgery is the only effective way to achieve lasting weight control and a healthy body weight.

Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass

We consider Gastric bypass to be the premium operation, offering that best combination of maximum weight control and minimum nutritional risk. It is considered to be the "gold standard" of modern obesity surgery. I have over ten years of experience with over 500 of these procedures and strive to refine this technique and it's method to produce the maximum sustained loss achievable.

This operation achieves its effectiveness by creating a very small pouch (thumb-sized) from which the rest of the stomach is permanently divided and separated. The small intestine is cut is rearranged so as to provide an outlet to the small stomach, while maintaining the flow of digestive juices at the same time. The lower part of the stomach is bypassed and food enters the second part of the small bowel within ten minutes of the beginning of the meal.

The operation works by reducing food intake and reducing the feeling of hunger and with mal-absorption of the nutrients that are eaten, reducing the caloric intake even further.

This procedure provides an excellent tool for gaining long-term control of weight without the hunger or cravings usually associated with small portions or with dieting. Weight loss of 80%-100% of excess body weight is achievable for most patients and long-term maintenance of weight loss is very successful with adherence to a simple and straightforward behavior regimen.

This procedure can be done laproscopically or with an open incision.

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Adjustable Gastric Banding

Gastric Banding is a variation of Gastroplasty, in which the stomach is neither opened nor stapled. It is a process where a band is placed on the outside of the upper stomach, to create an hour glass shaped stomach and to produce a small pouch with a narrow outlet. The special device used to accomplish this is made of implantable silicone rubber and contains an adjustable balloon. This allows us to adjust the function of the band without another operation. The following advantages are:

• It can be inserted laproscopically without a large incision
• It does not require any opening in the gastrointestinal tract, reducing the risk of infection
• There is no staple line to come apart
• It is adjustable

This operation may be particularly suited to persons weighing up to 300 pounds, who need to find a rapid and more convenient solution and to return to full activity very quickly. Business people, sales people and the self-employed. Although its' effects may not be as profound as the gastric bypass, the risk of the procedure appears to be less and the recovery time is the shortest.