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What is Lap-Band and why people need Lap-Band surgery?

How the Lap-Band surgery is performed and how does the port works?

Is this surgery painful for the patient?


Lap–Band is an inflatable silicon device that is used to place around the top portion of the stomach; this is also known as laparoscopic adjustable gastric band. This band is placed around the stomach by laparoscopic surgery, in order to treat the problem of obesity. The adjustable gastric band surgery is one of the examples of bariatric surgery that has been designed to help the obese patient. Lap band surgery is a type of weight loss surgery that is just like the gastric bypass. With the help of this surgery the obese patient alters anatomy of stomach that helps to reduce the food intake. The National Institute of Health has provided guidelines for the obese people:




  • Patient's BMI should be 40 or higher (morbidly obese)
  • Patient's BMI is between 35 - 40 with obesity co-morbidities

If the people come under these two categories then they are allowed for the lap-band surgery . And if the person is 100 pounds are more then also the obese person qualifies for the lap- band surgery. This surgery is mainly done for those people who are overweight and are keen to reduce their weight. This is one of the effective surgeries and in this surgery the silicon belt goes around the stomach, as a result of this surgery the ability to control your hunger increases and it also helps to achieve “feeling of fullness”. The main component of this Lap – Band is its adjustability, the band is connected to the port and this enables the device to be inflated over the time to expedite the weight loss. Because of all these features of this surgery the obese person get satisfaction with the Lap-Band surgery .




In this surgery the surgeon performs a series of small incisions, and then the surgeon uses a small camera called laparoscope that helps them to visualize the placement of Lap-band. In this surgery the Lap-Band is placed around the top of the stomach and is secured in the place with the help of sutures. Then the port is placed under the skin on the top part of abdomen. When the saline is injected in the port then it inflates the band and provides passage to the lower part of the stomach, and this results further restriction in food intake. If the fluid is tight then it can be easily removed.

Basically lap band operation is not painful but the patient will have to take more precaution after the surgery. The patients are required to take a lot of precaution that are related to their diet.