Since 1993, Lap-Band® Laparoscopic weight loss surgery has been performed more than 1 million times. The only gastric band weight loss device of its kind to earn US FDA approval, the Lap-Band procedure offers multiple distinct advantages to patients and their physicians: The least invasive, safest such procedure, the Lap-Band has shown the lowest rates of post surgical complications. (1)

The Lap-Band Procedures so safe in part because it is performed using the least radical methods available. Some other stomach surgeries require excision of a large portion of the stomach or even reroute the patient’s intestines. The Lap-Band procedure avoids these extremes by placing an adjustable gastric band around the upper part of the stomach. This band can be loosened or tightened by a physician, according to the patient’s future needs for losing weight.

San Clemente, California-based ReShape Lifesciences, Inc., the manufacturer of the Lap-Band, notes that its product represents the type of forward-looking procedure that appeals to people today. By helping a patient limit food intake, the Lap-Band offers the possibility of greater control and autonomy over one’s own body at every stage of the journey toward improved health.

1. Hutter Matthew, et al. First Report from the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastroectomy has Morbidity and Effectiveness Positioned Between the Band and the Bypass. September 2001.