i felt very confident that i wanted to have the band until i started reading some of these threads from extreme hair loss!!!!! to slippage to erosion to dilations on and on and on scary as hell ! IS THIS SURGERY REALLY WORTH ALL THE COMPLICATIONS? are these isolated incidents or very common where are these people having there surgeries are the doc qualified etc. help i need to hear from someone more than a year out that has had good results with no problems how do you keep these problems from occuring any advice?:help: