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Hi Everyone! I am having my surgery on December 12th in Mexico and I've seen a few comments related to the doctors switching over to single incision procedures. Can anyone provide more info and/or confirm this is the case? Thanks!!

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Hi Everyone! I am having my surgery on December 12th in Mexico and I've seen a few comments related to the doctors switching over to single incision procedures. Can anyone provide more info and/or confirm this is the case? Thanks!!

I would LOVE more info on a single incision VSG...I heard of this on YouTube and was impressed...I would be interested in this opposed to having multiple incisions...

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I had Garcia yesterday. I have 3 incisions and a drain. He said there could be a fourth incision ify liver wasn't shrunk, but I guess it was ok, because I didn't get that one. They are tiny incisions though. I don't know what docs do the single incision, but is it a bigger incision? Because lap surgeries require more than one tool. Just curious.

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I believe it goes in through your belly button, so you can't even really see the scar at all! I'd love more info on this as well :) my coordinator told me that the equipment used in that surgery is very expensive, so the cost would go up more than likely for that type of procedure

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I believe it goes in through your belly button' date=' so you can't even really see the scar at all! I'd love more info on this as well <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> my coordinator told me that the equipment used in that surgery is very expensive, so the cost would go up more than likely for that type of procedure[/quote']

Did you get a quote?!

Amanda Rae

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its called the spider and my coordinator told me it was a very expensive piece of equipment and Mexico would not probably never have it.

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