Lap-Band (Adjustable Gastric Band):

$3,750. Six day Detox/Colon Cleanse is optional but  highly recommended to improve overall health and increased weight loss for an additional $199.00

The adjustable gastric band is the least invasive type of weight loss surgery because it does not alter your body physiology. This is the only bariatric procedure that is both adjustable and reversible.

When you get the adjustable gastric band, no part of your stomach is removed. Instead, the gastric band goes around the upper portion of your stomach. About 15% of your stomach is above the band. This small stomach pouch can hold only about one-half of a cup (4 ounces) and is called the stoma. The remaining 85% of your stomach is below the band.

When you swallow food, the food goes down your throat and into your stoma. The gastric band prevents it from quickly dropping into the lower 85% of your stomach. That way, you become full when your small stoma fills up. This is faster than before the band, when it might take until your entire stomach was filled with food before you felt full. Food eventually passes through the band into the lower, large stomach pouch and eventually into the small intestine just as it did before the band. The gastric band doesn't change nutrient absorption.

An adjustable gastric band system has three components made of hypoallergenic silicon:

• Gastric band that goes around your stomach to create a small upper stoma that is separated from the lower portion of your stomach

• Access port implanted under the skin in your body cavity near your belly button that allows your surgeon to inject or withdraw saline solution to increase (inflate) or decrease (deflate) band volume

• Tubing that connects the port to the band and allows for a fill or a deflation of the adjustable Lap-Band.

**PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE MANY OTHER "LOW COST" SURGERY CENTERS OFFER BETTER PRICING ON THE LAPBAND PROCEDURE, OUR SURGEON ONLY USES THE INAMED BRAND LAPBAND**