Ratified by the FDA in 2001, lap band surgery is the newest and the only adjustable surgical treatment for morbid overweightness in the United States.

Lap band surgery adds to losing weight by limiting the capacity of the stomach, which controls the volume of food that can be digested. Since its clinical beginning more than 100,000 lap band surgeries have been completed around the world.

During lap band surgery physicians regularly use laparoscopic techniques that require employing small incisions and long-shafted instruments to insert an expandable silicone band into the patient’s stomach. Like a timepiece, the band is fastened around the upper abdomen to construct a new, tiny abdomen pouch that limits and controls the quantity of food you eat. It also crafts a small conduit that slows down the emptying activity into the abdomen and the intestines. As a result, patients encounter an earlier sense of fullness and are satisfied with lesser quantites of food. In turn, this results in loss of weight.

Since there is no cutting, stapling or stomach re-routing involved with lap band surgery, it is thought of as the least distressing of all weight loss operations. The laparoscopic approach to the surgery also adds the advantages of lessened post-operative pain, lessened hospital stay and faster recovery. If for any reason the lap band requires removal, the stomach normally resumes its original form.

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