What is a 'restrictive weight loss' surgery?

What is a 'restrictive weight loss' 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...

Restrictive weight loss surgery is when we put a device in or suture the stomach or the intestine so that it becomes more difficult for food to pass through that area. The example, today the most popular procedure is called the laparoscopic adjustible gastric band. And that is a band. It's made of silastic that goes in around the top of the stomach with a port that is put in just under your skin. We put a needle through your skin into the port, inject saline. It blows up a balloon in the band and decreases the size of the opening, the size of the opening in the stomach so that you can't eat as rapidly as you would normally expect to be able to.