New Lap Band technique

MzSnapCup · November 6, 2008

I saw this video for Lap Bands, it's inserted through your belly button.

I'm just wondering if anyone here has had theirs done that way?

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flowers · November 6, 2008

I saw a special on FOX that showed the newest technique was thru the mouth, no incisions. Only a few doctors in the U.S. have trained to perform surgery this way. Its better they said for overweight people because they have more things that can go wrong in surgery than their skinnier counterparts.

I think I read at least one person who had their lapband this way who posted on this forum.

Brandy~ · November 6, 2008

Hmm I had my tubes tied through my belly button but not my band. You can barely see my scars anyway so mine wasn't bad.

Interesting though

SBNYC · November 6, 2008

I saw a special on FOX that showed the newest technique was thru the mouth, no incisions. Only a few doctors in the U.S. have trained to perform surgery this way. Its better they said for overweight people because they have more things that can go wrong in surgery than their skinnier counterparts.
I think I read at least one person who had their lapband this way who posted on this forum.

I saw that clip but they said it was an experimental procedure and it wasn't for lap band. It was a less severe method of doing by-pass surgery.

My doctor insists on a two week pre-surgery all liquid diet to help de-fat the liver and make surgery easier -- and with fewer risks. She also has a technique of putting in an extra stitch to secure the band which supposedly cuts down on slipage.

MzSnapCup · November 7, 2008

If you click on the Fox link that I posted it actually shows part of the procedure for applying the lap band. In that video the doctor even states that it reduces the amount of pain killers needed after the surgery.

I also had my tubal that way. No one would ever know I've had it done, no visible scars at all.