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Finding a Lap Band Surgeon
Lap-Band surgery is a life-changing procedure. The positive outcomes you’ve heard about—the weight loss, the lifestyle improvements, the health...

Introduction to Lap Band Surgery
Lap-Band Surgery is a revolutionary new procedure for those struggling to combat dangerous weight problems. Like a gastric bypass, it also reduces...

How to Find a Gastric Bypass Surgeon
A gastric bypass procedure can have enormous benefits on your future health for decades to come, so it is no surprise that potential patients approach...

Finding a Weight Loss Surgeon
Along with the sobering increase of obesity in Americans—the Surgeon General stated in 2003 that obesity was the fastest growing cause of disease...

Introduction to Weight Loss
In a world in which nutrition and health are an increasingly prominent concern, weight loss, or bariatric, surgery is emerging as an empowering tool...

Introduction to Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric bypasses are one of the most popular types of weight loss surgeries performed. Through a relatively simple procedure that involves stapling...

Finding a Surgeon
Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific...

Choosing a Surgeon
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Is My Bariatric Surgery Covered by Insurance?
Bariatric surgery for weight loss can be a life-saving procedure for people with severe obesity, but it is not cheap. While there are a number of...

Is TOGA the Future of Weight Loss Surgery?
TOGA or Transoral Gastroplasty is one of the new kids on the block when it comes to bariatric or weight loss surgery. In fact, it’s not even...

Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery: Insurance Issues
For many people bariatric or weight loss surgery is their last and only hope of achieving a healthy weight. Bariatric surgeries are a means of treating...

The Benefits and Risks Duodenal Switch
A duodenal switch is one of the more aggressive bariatric surgeries performed today. A duodenal switch is often performed...

Implanted Gastric Stimulation
Many weight loss surgeries are based on deception. The modus operandi of restrictive weight loss surgeries is to fool or trick the brain into thinking...

Health Insurance and Weight Loss Surgery
While initially insurance companies were not anxious to cover the costs of bariatric or weight loss surgery, many companies are now realizing that...

Will My Health Insurance Cover Gastric Bypass Surgery?
Every health insurance company writes its own criteria for coverage of bariatric or weight loss surgery making it a bit challenging to determine...

Mesotherapy: Not Quite Mainstream
Despite its widespread use in Europe for years and some recent popularity in the United States, many physicians and surgeons are a bit leery about...

The Benefits of Obesity Surgery
Recently a panel of experts in the field of obesity surgery was convened to create a consensus statement and to establish guidelines regarding obesity...

Cost of Gastric Bypass Surgery
If you are considering gastric bypass surgery to control your body weight, it is important to consider the cost of gastric bypass surgery, including...

Body Sculpting Technique - UltraSculpt
For those bulges that just won’t budge despite diet and exercise, liposuction has been a fat removal method of choice for many years. Liposuction...

Treating Obesity - Biliopancreatic Diversion
A biliopancreatic diversion is surgical procedure performed to treat obesity. It is one of the older bariatric procedures first introduced in 1979....

The Da Vinci Surgical System - Robotic Surgery Device
The da Vinci Surgical System is among the most commonly used robotic surgery devices used in the world today. Rather than being a "virtual reality"...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Graspers
Very few maneuvers in surgery are done without some sort of surgical instrument. Each step in a surgery-from initial incision to the final suture-is...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Retractors
The longstanding joke among surgeons is that the best surgical retractors are third year medical students. This joke, based on a sad daily reality,...