Adjustable gastric banding is opted as effective and safe weight loss surgery for the morbid obese people. Adjustable gastric band is act as a restrictive weight loss surgery by limiting the food intake. It decreases the capacity of stomach for food holding and thus people feel full faster even in the small amount of food. In this way you can lose over weight. Conventionally gastric band is placed laparoscopically. Laparoscopic method is treated as safe procedure than open surgery. Laparoscopic procedure has many advantages over open surgery for weight loss like minimally invasive, less stay in hospital, less risk, less recover time, less pain etc.

In the Laparoscopic Adjustable gastric banding procedure approx five to six 1-2 cm incisions are made on abdomen. Band is inserted via any one of the incision. This is called. Nowadays one more advanced technique is developed which is safer than laparoscopic procedure. This is Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS).

In this, SILS gastric banding (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery) procedure instead of making 4 to 5 incisions surgeon operate through a single entry point. This entry point is made at patient’s navel site. A 4 cm incision made below the patients’ left rib. Some of the surgeon used to make single incision in the umbilicus. Via this band is placed for its work. In UK 2009 first SILS gastric banding performed. The whole procedure takes about 30 minutes. It takes 10 minutes more than the traditional laparoscopic procedure.

Benefits of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS gastric banding)

1. It leaves no scar.
2. It reduced the risk of wound infection.
3. There is pain after operation i.e post-operative pain.
4. There is less use of medication.
5. Rapid recovery from surgery or mobilization.
6. No evidence of the surgery.
7. It reduce the risk of bleeding
8. Reduce the risk of postincisional hernia from the trocar site.

The success of patients with weight loss through SILS gastric banding is making a new way of gastric banding procedure. Currently it is cost around cost £7,500.

All other things like requirements for surgery, diet after surgery, exercise are similar to the traditional adjustable gastric band surgery. The difference is only the procedure.