I am scheduled for surgery on Monday. My patient coordinator JUST let me know that they do not have any allergan bands and that the shipment is caught up in customs and that all doctors in Mexico are having this problem and that they can't get a band from another doctor in Mexico because nobody wants to give theirs up while waiting for this shipment to clear customs.

Is anybody else hearing this?

They are wanting me to reschedule but I have already taken off work and made my flight arrangements. The only option I am being offered is that they could possibly use a newly approved Johnson and Johnson band but they are checking into that.

This is not a new problem, this is an on-going problem. This time they've known for several weeks the bands are hard to get.

The docs that do a lot of bands have the money to keep quite a few in stock since this is an on going problem. The docs that don't do as many bands don't have them in stock.

Oh, another thing. Inamed worked it out with doctors weeks ago that they would pay the airline fees of patients that had to be rescheduled until they could deal with Mexican Customs.