It seems to me that we have an excellent opportunity to answer our own question regarding erosions.

We have a superb sampling of banded folks from all regions. I will be collating data to try and help us all see a snapshot of what is happening and where.

If you want to take part in this very unofficial study, Throw on a post (or PM Me) and I'll start collating.

RULES!!

Please only report your data. If you report data for another LBT'er I need their username as well as their stats. I won't accept spouses or friends unless they have a user account. Remember, this is LBT statistics, not LBT, plus everyone I know who has a band! :heh:

Format for Submission of Data:

Date Banded:

Country:

Doctor:

Erodoed: Y/N

If Eroded Date Removed:

If you don't give me all the information I can NOT add you to the data. If you don't supply data, I will try and PM you to request missing data.

PERMANENT DISCLAIMER!!!

This study is not intended to impugn, malign, or misrepresent surgeons and their ability to perform. This is a simple collection of numbers. So, if you see items like: Lopez 100% next to number of erosions, be sure to look and see just how many have reported. If 1 person reports, and 1 person erodes, thats 100%.

The more people take part, the better the data becomes!

Privacy

Anyone who wishes to submit their information by personal message will have their identity kept confidential. I will not reveal to anyone on LBT (or outside of LBT) their usernames or any other personal information provided to me.

TEMPORARY DISCLAIMER!!!

These figures show an INCREDIBLY high erosion rate due to the very small sampling of folks in the study. Don't Panic!

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This data is updated daily by midnight US. EST.

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***** Apologies Folks, it appears when the thread moved formatting was lost and can not be put back in. I'll ask Alex if it can be 'fixed' but we may not be able to host these stats anymore ****

Stuff happens. :puke:

Date Banded: 7/22/05

Country: US

State: Texas

Surgeon: Dr. John Marsden

Eroded?: NO

Banded 1/26/05

USA

Arkansas

Dr. Rex Luttrell

no erosion

I imagine some of those 614 views are people like me who aren't banded yet but trying to keep up with developments and info.

Hope to be banded in the next few months! Going to a seminar this Thursday!

Scratch that. I would rather not be involved. Thank you.

I don't suppose any kind moderator would make this sticky for me??

I'll be ever so nice and I won't....well... I ... no scratch that...

I'd be ever so grateful!

Date Banded: 10/08/05

Country: Mexico

Surgeon: Dr. Ortiz

Eroded?: NO

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I have been banded twice. Not sure if you are going to count me twice in the stats, but I'll provide two sets of data:

FIRST BAND

Date Banded: 7/17/2002

Country: France

Doctor: Vincent Frering

Eroded: NO (this band slipped)

SECOND BAND

Date Banded: 5/9/2005

Country: USA

Doctor: Brent Steward

Eroded: NO

Date banded - 4th April 05

Country - Australia

Doctor - Dr Webster

Eroded - No

Banded 1/24/06

Surgeon-Dr Laura Choi, Danbury CT

No erosions or complications!

Kristine

Date Banded: August 18th 2005

Country: USA

Doctor: Dr. Elizabeth Martin (there are two dr.martins who do lapbands) Richmond, VA

Erodoed: No

Thanks for your response to my concerns earlier. Excellent points and a great idea! Thanks for your hard work on this!

Dr. Rumbaut in Monterrey, MX

Surgery Date: 1/31/06

Erosion/Complications: Probably too soon to tell but no.

Thanks for your response to my concerns earlier. Excellent points and a great idea! Thanks for your hard work on this!

Very welcome. Its actually not hard work Excel does the whole thing. I'm too lazy to work hard!

Now I just need about 300 more folks to post and this will start really showing great data.

And one or two Lopez 'non erosions' would be great. Right now the poor guy is 3/3 on erosions!

Scariest MicroFact so far.

Two people banded on the same day, one by Ortiz, one by Lopez, both eroded WITHIN 10 days of each other. I think it was 605 days installed vs. 608 days installed.

Thanks to all that have posted, and any who haven't - come on! join in and lets not make the numbers so bloody scary!

50 Pounds lost and no complications. Surgery date 1-29-05.

Julie

186lbs at start

136lbs now and extremely happy!

Scariest MicroFact so far.

Two people banded on the same day, one by Ortiz, one by Lopez, both eroded WITHIN 10 days of each other. I think it was 605 days installed vs. 608 days installed.

Dawg, I'm sure you realize that eroding isn't something that happens suddenly, right? It's probably impossible to tell when the erosion starts, in the vast majority of cases. So measuring the date the band was removed is sort of pointless, it would seem.