How LAP BAND Surgery Works
LAP BAND Surgery induces weight loss by reduciing the amount of food that your stomach can hold at one time. This helps you gradually lose weight and keep it off. So you can live a healthier life — for your children, your family, and yourself.
Without any stomach cutting or stapling, the LAP BAND ® System reduces your stomach’s capacity, restricting the amount of food you are able to eat at one time. Plus, you feel full faster and stay full longer, so you wind up eating less.
Advantages of New Jersey LAP BAND SURGERY
- Minimally invasive surgical approach
- No intestinal re-routing, cutting or stapling of the stomach wall or bowel as with gastric bypass
- Often performed on an out-patient basis
- Small incisions and minimal scarring
- Reduced post-surgical pain, shorter hospital stay and recovery time
- Return to work/normal activities typically within a week
Fewer Risks and Side Effects
- Low risk of post-surgical nutritional deficiencies associated with gastric bypass
- Reduced risk of hair loss
- No "dumping syndrome" (food passes through the system too fast resulting in severe cramping/digestive disruption) related to dietary intake restrictions
Adjustable
- Allows for personalized steady, healthy rate of weight loss
- No additional surgery for adjustments
- Supports pregnancy by allowing for increased nutritional needs
- Surgical weight loss option specifically designed for long term weight maintenance
Effective Long Term Weight Loss
- More than 500,000 LAP BAND® System devices distributed worldwide
- #1 selling adjustable gastric band for weight loss worldwide
- Over ten years of medical studies and academic publications follow-up
- Sets the "gold standard" of care for obesity treatment for hundreds of surgeons world-wide
Reversible
- While it is intended to be a long-term treatment, the LAP BAND® System can be removed at any time, in some cases laparoscopically
- Stomach and other anatomy typically return to their original state/functions.
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