Weight Loss Surgery Options: Weight Loss Surgeries
Dealing with obesity can be extremely difficult. Obesity can cause you to loose your independence, increase your health risks and be a cause of discrimination. If you’re interested in weight loss surgery as a solution of obesity please carefully read our consumer guide to weight loss surgery.
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Consumer Guide to Weight Loss Surgery
Bariatric Surgery, or more colloquially Weight Loss Surgery, offers people who have been struggling with obesity hope. Weight loss surgery is typically a last resort option that can severally increase your quality of life. As with all surgery, there are risks - but there are also risks associated with continuing to be obese. Find more information about the weight loss surgeries we provide. Please visit our guides on these surgeries: Sleeve Gastrectomy, Lap Band and Gastric Bypass.
Weight Loss Surgery Options: Weight Loss Surgeries
Consumer Guide to Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery
- Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery - Consumer guide, and dieting information
- Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery Costs - Average costs of the surgery
- Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery Success Stories - Before and after photos of patients.
Consumer Guide to Gastric Bypass Surgery
- Gastric Bypass Surgery - Consumer guide and dieting information.
- Gastric Bypass Surgery Costs - Average costs of the surgery.
- Gastric Bypass Surgery Success Stories - Before and after photos of patients.
Consumer Guide to Lap Band Surgery
- Lap Band Surgery - Consumer guide, and dieting information.
- Lap Band Surgery Costs - Average costs of Lapband.
- Lap Band Surgery Success Stories - Before and after photos of patients.
Laparoscopic Weight Loss Surgical Procedures
- Lap Band Surgery Procedure
- Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery
- Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Hair Transplants in Mexico
- Gastric Banding Surgery Follow-up
- Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery
Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery for weight control
Because it is minimally invasive, less painful and causes less scarring than most surgeries, laparoscopic surgery has become the most widely practiced surgical procedure for lap band surgery, RNY surgery and sleeve gastrectomies.
Laparoscopic surgery gets its name from the laparoscope an advanced, fiber optic camera that assists surgeons’ visibility during surgeries.
Laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive surgery during which several small incisions approximately one half inch in length are made in the abdomen. Utilizing the laparoscope, surgeons can perform laparoscopic surgery without making large incisions and opening the entire abdomen, because due to the camera they are able to see beneath the skin. This results in significantly less tissue scarring and shorter recovery time.
Plastic tubes known as "ports" are placed into separate incisions and the instruments required for the particular laparoscopic surgery are inserted into these ports.
Once the laparoscopic surgery is complete, the incisions are stitched and, after a short stay in the hospital, patients can return to a normal lifestyle in a relatively brief period.
Advantages of Laparoscopic Surgery:
- less pain
- faster recovery times
- briefer hospital stays
- less scarring, both internally and externally