Has anybody had their surgery through lapbandLA? i went to one of their seminars and i have some appointments with them, but can anyone tell me what their experiance was like with lapband LA?

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 dnt think so, i think the ones with the billboards are 1800getthin, and they have their own website, but i hope lapbandla isn't affiliated with them because i've heard bad things about 1800getthin. umm, orange county? sorry, i'm new to cali. lol

wow i'm dumb. lol. it's laband vip, idk why i thought it was LA fof a while. haha sorryy...

Hi Sydnii...i just started my process with Dr. Oliak too but only after doing a ton of research online and scheduling different consults and seminars with probably 6 different practices. I've been looking into this for about 8 months now and one of the main reasons why I chose Dr. Oliak is because how passionate he is on his outcomes and statistics. I'd be careful about looking into those practices that dont give you statistics on the doctors or who even the names of the surgeon. Doing my research, I found out that many are just middle men who contract out doctors and don't offer good follow up care. If any issues arise, I want to be sure i'll be taken care of in the future. By having a consult with Dr. Oliak I saw that he is very open about his complication rates and outcomes and focuses a lot on being a support system for his patients. He's had his own practice for many years now and I felt really comfortable with him when I had my free consult. I'm still in the process and haven't gotten the surgery yet, but my process has been so easy and smooth with him and his team. I'd really suggest looking into them. Good Luck!