- It is not necessary to make incisions, to suture or to remove part of the stomach or intestine in order to fit the SAGB. This carries two significant advantages:
- First of all, in general the gastric band procedure is the operation that causes the least trauma to the digestive tract. This can help avoid many undesired side effects that go hand in hand with a few other surgical treatments for obesity.
- Secondly, the SAGB is easily removed and the original shape and structure of the stomach can be restored. This is not the case with many other surgical techniques for obesity, in which a return to the original anatomy of the stomach or intestines is particularly difficult or even impossible.
- Should you need to undergo another operation at a later date, the gastric band is not a contra-indication for another procedure. However, you must inform the surgeon about your gastric band before he operates.
- As we have already said above, the SAGB can be very accurately adjusted so that the opening allowing food to pass from the smaller to the larger part of the stomach can be made smaller or larger. In this way, the progress of your weight loss can be highly individualised without risk of complications.
- Thanks to minimal invasive surgery [keyhole operation] the patient recovers quickly after the procedure and only a short period of hospitalisation is needed, usually 48 hours.
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Gastric Banding