The Three Types Of Weight Loss Surgery You’ll Find At A Clinic

Weight loss clinics will offer their patients a variety of different programs and plans for losing weight.  Physical exercise, proper dieting and the commitment to embarking on such a program are the key ingredients in a successful plan.  Good weight loss clinics will have all of these ingredients, but for some patients, some form of surgery may be the right option for losing weight.  

A weight loss clinic will need to have the professional ability to perform weight loss surgeries, with three common ones in particular.  

- Before we discuss the three main types of surgery that a Weight loss clinic should offer, we’ll briefly talk about the benefits of surgery in the first place.  If you have a weight related condition, and are committed to embarking on the journey to eliminating the extra weight, then you are a good candidate for weight loss surgery.  

- Following the surgery, you will lose weight for at least a year and a half to two years.  Following this process, patients may regain a little of the lost weight, but most of the time, they won’t gain back very much of it.  

- A major benefit of weight loss surgery is that it can help improve any other medical conditions you had that were related to your weight gain.  For example, if you have diabetes or high levels of blood pressure, weight loss surgery will lower both of them.  

- Gastric Bypass Surgery:  With gastric bypass surgery, the surgeon at hand will make changes to your stomach so that your stomach will be divided into a larger pouch and a much smaller pouch.  Any food you eat will bypass the larger pouch and only enter the smaller pouch, meaning that you won’t be able to eat as much food.  Surgeons are able to perform this by making incisions into the stomach with the help o a laparoscope, a small camera that allows them to see inside.  Gastric bypass surgery is among the most common of weight loss surgeries done, so you’re more than likely to find it offered at a weight loss clinic.  

- Gastric Sleeve Surgery: The gastric sleeve surgery is very similar to the gastric bypass surgery, only it goes much farther in that instead of a surgeon dividing the stomach into a larger and a smaller pouch, the surgeon will instead simply remove seventy-five percent of the stomach, leaving only a small part of the stomach called the gastric sleeve.  

- Gastric Banding Surgery:  Gastric banding surgery is where a surgeon will use an inflatable band to squeeze the stomach together into two sections, but unlike gastric bypass surgery, the two pouches will still be connected.  This means that food can still get into the larger pouch, but the process will just be much smaller.  In addition, food that can slip through into the larger pouch will have to be well chewed.