It involves removing vertically in the left portion of the stomach and especially the bottom gastric here because there is a substance that stimulates the appetite. These patients are therefore a smaller stomach, around 150cc (the normal measures about 1200cc), but also reduces the appetite. It is a low-risk surgery and maintains continuity of the [...]

Gastric banding is to encircle the upper stomach with a kind of belt that divides the stomach in an upper small, just 15cc and leaves a small step to the rest of the stomach. This banda or ring is a device that allows more or less inflate the cuff so as to control the size [...]

The intragastric balloon consists of installing a balloon in the stomach. It inflates with 500cc liquid stained with methylene blue. This procedure is done with general anesthesia and the introduction is by endoscopy. The operating mechanism is that the inflated balloon takes up space in the stomach and produces a feeling of satiety with little [...]

1 .- Patients carriers of health problems so severe that they can not withstand surgery or anesthesia, for example severe respiratory or cardiovascular illnesses such patients, in some cases can be conveniently prepared with a preoperative intensive supportive treatment, and be surgery despite the risks involved, as is sometimes the only way to resolve the [...]

Obesity is a serious illness, it lasts chronic and progressive, today it is very hard to cure. But surgeons can aspire to a person who is obese

An obese person can be cured and that is normal weight or close to normal, but this does not mean that obesity has been cured. The only way of [...]

The data about dental disorders are unprecedented and show that half of the patients returned to the doctor with any complaint. About 80% was with the teeth brittle and had a 60% increase in the number of caries. These problems were observed both in patients from the Unified Health System (SUS) as of private health [...]

Reduction of stomach may cause dental problems and alcoholism 
in later years.
Some patients who underwent stomach surgery to reduce the present, after five years or more, a considerable new weight gain. Moreover, other disturbances are also being observed in the same period after the operation, including alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, bruxism, excessive increase of dental caries and brittle.
The [...]

Conceptually, liposuction is the technique in which the excess fat is sucked under the skin. Liposculpture is withdrawn when the fat is applied in other areas of the body, such as depression caused by cellulite. Before the surgery or liposuction, liposculpture the doctor spreads in the areas targeted a solution composed of lidocaine (a local [...]

  Despite the title of this post is called ” Gastric Band ” in reality I speak of a new method - The Intragastric Balloon, which according to the professionals of Health is a much less aggressive alternative to surgical operations.
This ” Gastric Band ” (The balloon) is composed of silicone, and occupies an area [...]