Generally, cosmetic gastric band surgery is a typical kind of procedure for weight loss. During the procedure, your chosen cosmetic surgeon will reduce your stomach’s overall capacity by affixing a small adjustable gastric band, at a precise location within your stomach, to ensure that you can only consume smaller meals.

Cosmetic Gastric Band Surgical Procedure

Prior to your gastric band surgical procedure, your cosmetic stomach surgeon may also give you a detailed list of pre-surgery diet, aimed at your liver shrinkage, which will help to make the cosmetic surgeon’s access to your stomach a lot easier. Usually, this advice will be provided to you in a booklet form.

When suitable anesthesia, administered in accordance with your own body specifics, starts to take complete affect, your stomach cosmetic surgeon will carefully place an adjustable gastric band, similar to a tiny circular balloon or inner tube, around your stomach’s upper part. He will then inflate the gastric balloon through a small port, placed under your skin. As a result of this action, the band will create a smaller stomach pouch, just above the location where it has been placed by your surgeon. So, when you presently consume your meals, this pouch will quickly fill up. The food consumed will gradually pass down into your body’s digestive system, through the now much narrower opening formed by the gastric band.

The gastric band affixed by your cosmetic stomach surgeon may be readily removed if desired. However, its removal may once more result in undesired weight regain.

Recovery Period for Gastric Band Surgery

For prevention of blot clots, your cosmetic surgeon will suggest additional heparin injections. Your cosmetic surgeon may ask you to take some vitamin supplements with your meals.

Few weeks after your surgery, when your stomach swelling has subsided, the cosmetic surgeon will readjust your gastric band accordingly. This may normally be repeated twice or three times during the few first months following your surgical procedures.

Gastric Band Surgery Candidate

This cosmetic surgical procedure is only advisable, if you:

  • are excessively overweight and have a BMI or body mass index of over 40
  • suffer medical conditions like high BP or diabetes, which would improve with weight loss, provided your BMI ranges from 35 to 40

Side Effects of Gastric Band Surgery

Undesired but usually temporary side effects of this surgical procedure may include poor healing, minor bleeding, infection, pain, bruising, and skin swelling around your wounds.

Cosmetic Gastric Band Surgery Procedure Costs

Generally, in cosmetic gastric band surgical procedures the usual costs are made up of cosmetic surgeon fees, hospital facility charges, anesthesia, as well as X-ray and various pre-operational lab expenses. Depending on the precise surgical procedure selected, costs will normally between $17,000 and $30,000. Costs for gastric bypass or gastric sleeve may even be much higher than those for the Realize Band or Lap-band, since these particular surgeries involve longer periods of hospital stay and are much more complex. Costs for duodenal cosmetic surgery can also include additional cost-related varies which may affect your bottom line.