JGronkowski

I am also pretty sure Dr Davytan is the guy who has a lap band himself! I almost went to him but even though I was a self-pay I thought I should try to find someone on my provider list in case there were complications. I went to Dr David Oliak In Orange (he has two other offices, one is in Brea) anyway I LOVE him and all his staff! They were great and I dont have any complaints at all.
Dr, Oliak stitches your band in place and has never had a slippage! I cant say enough about him or his staff! Good luck!

I dont know too much about them but are they the ones with all the billboards? That bothers me a bit as I kind of dont think good docs advertise with billboards. I had Dr Oliak in Orange and I checked out Dr. Davytan who has a band himself. Dr Oliak has a complication rate of zero...never had any erosions, slippage, port flips etc. He sews your band in place so it really cant slip and he has a mesh procedure for the port so I dont think it can flip. I love that guy and feel like I owe him my (new) life!

I'm not an old patient of his, I'm a current one...I was just banded Nov 18th and it has really be a great experience! The entire experience has been great. They really work with you and were able to squeeze me in for surgery since I was having an insurance change soon. I love it so far, had a very uncomplicated surgery and recovery, and would highly recommend him.

Any doctor who will accept what insurance pays for bariatric surgery if you are blue cross or blue shield ppo in california ($1000 for lapband which includes 3 months of follow up visits) is doing as many surgeries as he can in a day and will not be following your weight loss closely. they will see you as little as possible because they do not get paid! they will be doing your surgery as fast as possible because they do not get paid! you get what you pay for. any doctor who specializes in this and has built a practice around it will be charging the patient. do your research. ask how much your doctor gets reimbursed by insurance for your surgery and then do the math relative to the work involved to take care of you. funny how people will pay up for the nice car but not their own health.