For the people who is severely obese and want to get rid from this, laparoscopic gastric banding is the good option for them. Nowadays morbid obesity is becoming worst problem for large part of people of this world. Lots of solutions are available for weight loss like diet pills, exercise, dieting etc. If you are tired of all these options then lastly you can go for weight loss surgery. Among all weight loss surgery adjustable gastric band surgery is the most appropriate surgery for weight loss. There are some requirements which should be fulfilled by you in order to be candidate of this surgery.


It is most popular weight loss surgery due to many reasons like of its safe and minimally invasive procedure, its weight loss rate, its less risk and complications and many others things. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure is safe and less risky, minimally invasive and require less recovery time. It doesn’t involve any cuts and staple of stomach, any re-routing or cutting of digestive system, any changing of anatomy of digestive system.

After scheduling date for surgery means before Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure patient need to conduct some tests which are required to check whether your body is in condition of surgery or not. Some tests are --- Upper G.I. Series, EKG, Chest X-Ray, Gallbladder Ultra Sound, Internist evaluation, Anesthesiologist evaluation and Blood & Urine Analysis. There are some pre-operative diets which make your body suitable for surgery. After this at the day of surgery you should start your day with exercise. Leave smoking and drinking habits prior to surgery.


In the morning you visit hospital and conduct some tests. During this laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure patients are kept under general anesthesia. After that, around five to six 1 to 2 cm small incisions are made on abdomen through which band will insert. Through one key hole camera is introduced to take the picture and to see band is placing at the right place or not. Camera show pictures on monitor. Band is inserted and wrapped around stomach to form two pouches. Band is now connected with port which is placed left side of abdomen under the skin via tubing. This port is used to fill or remove saline to either increase the diameter of band or decrease it respectively. Saline (salt solution) is introduced through the port by using fine needle. Some surgeon leave band empty at the time of surgery and after recovery from the surgery means 3 to 4 weeks after surgery they schedule band fill. The whole procedure take almost 30 minutes to 1 hours and you need to stay overnight in the hospital. After that within a week you will be able to work normally. Some test will conduct to see whether surgery done properly or not. You need to take antibiotic to avoid infection. 6 to 8 weeks after surgery according to your condition and rate of weight loss, band adjusted without any additional surgery.

After Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery, it is expected from you that you will properly follow gastric band diet plan properly. Follow up care are schedule first after 6 week of surgery to check your health condition and rate of weight loss and other complications and after that as decided by surgeon. It is expected that ideally if you follow all things than within 18 months you will be able to lose 50 to 60 % of your weight. It is the safer procedure in compared to other weight loss procedure.