What are the advantages and disadvantages of lap-band surgery?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of lap-band surgery?

Peter LePort (Gastric Bypass Surgeon) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'restrictive weight loss' surgery?; Who should choose to have lap-band surgery?; What are the advantages and disadvantages of lap-band surgery? and more...

The advantage of lap-band surgery is lesser stay in the hospital, less complication rate and faster return to activity. The downside of the laproscopic band is that you have a foreign body that can erode, get infected, cause various problems and then have to be removed.