There are a few reasons why the tummy tuck is most often never done at the same time as the gastric bypass;

1. After gastric bypass you will continue to experience weight loss and then a year or two later you would need to have the excess skin removed again.

2. The wound is less likely to experience infection if it is performed when the patient has already healed from the gastric bypass procedure.

Along with a host of other reasons but primarily you want to reduce infection and ensure that you don’t have to repeat the procedure.

But most everyone that undergoes gastric bypass should consider a tummy tuck for hygenic, aesthetic, and other health reasons. The excess skin could get in the way of performing normal exercise and also be a mental focal point that could keep the patient from “feeling good” about their bodies.

When considering a tummy tuck after gastric bypass it’s important to view before and after photos from the plastic surgeon who is going to perform the operation (sometimes it’s necessary to go to a different plastic surgeon than the one who performed the gastric bypass). Along with before and after photos you’ll want to view their credentials and maybe even speak to some past patients and see how satisfied they were with the level of care and service the doctor provided.

Overall, if you are considering a tummy tuck after gastric bypass you want to do your homework and make sure you have waited long enough, meaning you are completely healed from the gastric bypass and that you have lost the majority of the weight that you had planned on losing because you don’t want to have to have 2 tummy tucks.

Please feel free to explore the other gastric bypass tummy tuck information provided on this site.

The Lap band is installed by small incisions in the skin outside the stomach and again, wraps around the upper part of the stomach forming a new smaller stomach or a small pouch that acts as the new stomach. The whole lap band gastric bypass takes about 1 hour or less and is designed so that the band can be inflated or deflated at any time after operation.

There are a few distinct advantages of having a Lap band gastric bypass versus one where the stomach is actually stapled. For one the hospital stay is shorter, most times the patient leaves within 2 days. It is completely reversible unlike when the stomach is actually stapled. The band can be adjusted after surgery to fit the needs of the patient and help them achieve their differing weight loss goals. There is no cutting or stapling of the stomach.

Hopefully this short article was helpful in aiding your understanding of the uses of the lap band in gastric bypass procedures.

The mini gastric bypass has proven to be able to produce long term weight loss with a much less amount of pain associated with the procedure as opposed to a full gastric bypass. The mini gastric bypass (MGB) also has the added benefit of being able to reverse the procedure unlike a normal gastric bypass which cannot be reversed once completed.

A mini gastric bypass procedure uses a scope and instruments that are inserted through small incisions instead of through a large abdominal incision as in the case of a regular gastric bypass operation. The mini gastric bypass procedure produces a stomach that is the size of a magic marker. This major reduction in the physical size of the stomach is the reason why such phenomenal weight loss is achieved.

Proven to be a successful procedure for long term weight loss it is associated with a relatively low amount of pain and the risk involved in minimal. In addition if desired the mini gastric bypass can be reversed which is not true for a normal gastric bypass procedure.

In fact a doctor in North Carolina has a perfected and studied mini gastric bypass procedures and compared them head to head with normal gastric bypass procedures and found the mini gastric bypass to have shorter operating times, fewer complications and side effects as well as comparable amounts of weight loss!

That being said, “which one would you rather have done?” It seems that these mini gastric bypass surgery’s are going to eventually replace the old way of doing the gastric bypass. In addition to all of the other benefits listed the mini gastric bypass (MGB) is also cheaper than a normal gastric bypass.

A gastric bypass normally costs about $24,000 and a mini gastric bypass will cost about $17,000.