WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THE BDP/DS (BilioPancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch) AND OTHER WEIGHT LOSS (BARIATRIC) SURGERIES?
SOME COMMENTS ON THE LAPAROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE The surgeon performs ALL bariatric surgeries using the laparoscopic technique. There is some debate about the “open” technique giving the surgeon more “visibility” but this is not necessarily accurate to a good extent. The cameras that are inserted into the five small incisions during a lap procedure allow the lap surgeon excellent up-close visibility and of course, the ability to “zoom in” on an area that he is working on that an open procedure simply does not provide. It is often a matter of the level of comfort that an “Open-trained” surgeon has to acquire with learning the newer Lap technique…kind of like learning to drive on the left side of the road after learning on the right! In terms of actual invasiveness of the procedure, recovery and post op aesthetics when it comes time for your plastics reconstruction, the lap procedure will save you maybe a day, but the real “recovery pain” is NOT from the external incisions (open or lap) but
