Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery is one of many different weight loss surgery options that are available to people who are dealing with weight loss issues. In the past, your primary options were liposuction and a follow up tummy tuck, but today there are numerous cosmetic surgery options to choose from that have weight loss as their primary goal. Bariatric surgery is only one of these options, and the more you know about it, the better prepared you will be to choose the right cosmetic weight loss surgery option for your personal needs.
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How does Bariatric Surgery work?
Bariatric Surgery is one of the available treatment options for people who are morbidly obese, especially for those who have tried other means of losing weight and have had no success at long term weight loss. Bariatric Surgery is also regularly known as weight loss surgery, and it is a category of cosmetic surgery or cosmetic plastic surgery that has completely transformed the lives and the health of nearly a million people in the past few years alone.
What is Bariatric Surgery?
Bariatric surgery is a clinical term that is used to describe several different weight loss surgery procedures. The procedures that fall into the Bariatric Surgery category can be further defined by two different approaches that are used to help patients get healthier and lose weight. The two different types of approaches that are used for Bariatric Surgery or weight loss surgery are restrictive weight loss surgery procedures and malabsorptive weight loss surgery procedures.
Restrictive Bariatric Surgery
During this type of procedure, the surgeon is responsible for creating a small pouch in the stomach that is designed to limit how much food the patient is capable of eating. This smaller stomach pouch is capable of filling up much more quickly, helping the patient feel satiated while eating less food. Some examples of restrictive Bariatric Surgery procedures include the sleeve gastrectomy or gastric sleeve and gastric banding like the lap band and the Realize band.
Malabsorptive Bariatric Surgery
During this type of weight loss cosmetic surgery, the surgeon will reroute the small intestine in order to allow food to skip part of it. The small intestine is responsible for absorbing nutrients and calories from foods, and avoiding part of this absorption process means that some of the calories and nutrients will not be absorbed. Surgeons rarely only perform these malabsorptive procedures, as most of the procedures that involve this technique are combination procedures that also involve the use of restriction Bariatric Surgery.
There are certain procedures such as gastric bypass cosmetic surgery and duodenal switch with Roux-en-Y that use a combination of both the restriction type of Bariatric Surgery and also the malabsorption type of Bariatric Surgery. During these procedures, not only are small pouches created, by there is also some re-routing of the small intestine to allow a large portion of the small intestine to be bypassed by the food that you consume.
