Tonia was kind enough to compile the Banding 101 thread from Spotlight and organize it into FAQ format on a website. Visit http://hometown.aol.com/texasrosey/ to answer some of your questions!

Thanks, Alexis! I promise I'm gonna get more info added soon. Things have been a bit hectic around here.

Tonia

Originally posted by BandAid

Thanks, Alexis! I promise I'm gonna get more info added soon. Things have been a bit hectic around here.

Tonia

hi Tonia, thats a great FAQ, I want to ask your permission to link to it on my webpage.

I just wanted to Correct the webpage of Dr verboonen and Dr Ponce de leon. their webpage is www.obesitygoodbye.com. lols not www.obesity.com

thanks

Tonia,

As I was one of those who whined the loudest about the sanitorium that Dr. Pedro Kuri in Tijuana used, I'd like to be among the first to mention that he apparently has a brand-new state-of-the-art hospital.

I want to include some background: To be clear, he was not my surgeon but he did my first fill. While I had (and have) all the respect in the world for his abilities, I was really turned off by the hospital and the radiological facilities he was using a year ago. I caught a lot of flak from his fan club for speaking up, but you know, it was a $47 per day hospital. Many medical professionals, who know how to evalutate an OR, had their surgery there. But quite a few of us who were not so trained had to go by what we could see and understand. What I saw and understood were about six or eight rooms, four beds to a room, bathroom down the hall, no air conditioning, no doctor on duty 24/7, and clean but relatively primative surroundings. For some people that is fine, but I would rather come up with $1000 more and have my surgery in a place that looks like what I think a hospital looks like. When I wrote elsewhere that a year ago, I was "attacked" as speaking unkindly of Dr. Kuri.

So: He has a new facility and it looks gorgeous. The "fill room" appears to have more modern fluoroscopy equipment. Everything is new and looks immaculate. I am not aware of how many doctors are using this facility, how many are around during surgery in case of emergency, who is there overnight, that kind of thing...but if someone has previously read negative things about Dr. Kuri's hospital and radiological lab, those have changed and it may be time to give him another look.

Sue