Life Smile facilitates the affordable low cost Laparoscopic Gastric banding surgery at top hospital facilities in India. The discounted gastric Lap band surgery procedure overseas for uninsured, self insured and underinsured individuals helps the morbidly obese patients in a surgery cost savings of upto 70% to 80%. The operation cost of minimally invasive Gastric band surgery procedure abroad in India is USD 5490.

GASTRIC BANDING

An individual is an ideal candidate for Lap Gastric Banding surgery if one is morbidly obese and have obesity - related health problems that significantly interfere with employment, physical mobility or family function, if a persons's Body Mass Index (BMI) is above 35 and he / she suffer from diabetes, or any other serious obesity-related co morbidity condition such as heart disease, severe sleep apnea, respiratory insufficiency, and heart burn- reflux disease etc. if obese woman / men have a mind-set to make long term, positive lifestyle and behavioral changes to the diet and exercise routine to manage body weight and are also committed to life long medical follow up, then that male / female is a good candidate for Adjustable Gastric Lap band- AGB procedure. The pre-surgery preparations include individual or group counseling therapy and screening, a low-energy liquid diet for 3 - 4 weeks prior to the surgery to minimize surgical risks.

Gastric Banding- Gastric banding procedure for morbid obesity management was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2001. Gastric Band surgery is adjustable and completely reversible (removable band) procedure performed by a Bariatric surgeon laparoscopically or through key hole route using 5 small skin incisions under general Anesthesia. A hollow silicone band or ring with inflatable balloon fitted on the inside is wrapped around the upper part of the stomach to create a small stomach. Small quantity of food can fill up the small stomach providing satisfaction/satiety to the person. After gastric band placement, the narrow outlet of this small stomach delays progression of food into intestine – obese person feels full for longer period. The procedure takes 60 – 90 minutes and the expected hospital inpatient stay is 2 - 3 days.

Post-operative recovery and recuperation time in India required would be a stay of 5 - 6 days after the Lap Gastric banding surgery. An obesity dietician prescribed dietary advice consisting primarily of liquids diet initially for 4 weeks and then later followed by small portions of low energy healthy foods as a part of multiple small meals and snacks is required for the first 6 weeks after the surgery before returning back to the normal diet. Very light physical activities can be resumed within 4 days and the bariatric patients can usually return back to work within 18 days.

GASTRIC BAND Adjustments- Adjusting the size of the opening between the two parts of the stomach controls the amount of food to pass from the smaller upper to the larger lower part of the stomach. This opening between the two parts of the stomach can easily be decreased or increased, by injecting- inflating or removing saline- deflating from the band. The general surgeon or Nurse Practitioner can later control the amount of saline in the band by piercing the reservoir through the skin with a fine needle as an outpatient procedure of 20 minutes. Being able to adjust the band is a unique feature of the GASTRIC LAP-BAND system and is a normal part of the follow-up treatment by which the weight loss can be controlled.

Benefits of LAP-BAND- Because of the Gastric Lap Bands being removable, adjustable and not permanently altering the anatomy, it provides a viable option for patients with excessive fat who may not otherwise consider bariatric surgeries for treatment of their obesity. Significant advantages include a shorter hospital stay and no effects on the absorption of nutrients.

Expected Weight Loss- This weight loss program or weight reduction plan is not for faster weight management system, the estimated weight loss is approximately 40 - 50% of an individual’s excess weight, to be achieved over 2 years.

Medical risks, Complications and side effects of Gastric lap band Obesity weight loss surgery treatment are minimal but may include nausea, gastric reflux, vomiting, band slippage or dilation, poor esophageal functionality, digestive and absorptive irregularities initially, constipation, diarrhea, stoma obstruction, difficulty in swallowing, band or port reservoir problems and fatality.

LIFE SMILE HEALTH VALUE:

For foreign patient's convenience, care and comfort Life Smile India as medical holiday travel Management Company has overseas medical travel assistance offices to provide discounted health travel abroad information, India medical tourism assistance, and health tourism India guidance and to provide offshore medical trip help to international patients for their safe health care medical tour travel to India. Our trained health care associates and India health travel managers and health care tour consultants would be pleased to assist and guide you at the Life Smile global patient care centers in the following countries by receiving, processing and forwarding your health care query, providing information on top rated, accredited specialty private hospitals in India, private clinics in India, medical research and health care institute facilities in India, assist in search to find and provide information on specialist Indian medical professional consultants- board certified doctors, board certified surgeons, board certified dentists – dental surgeons and board certified physicians abroad in India, arranging online ask a doctor- free web consults and telephone consultations with best qualified doctor and experienced therapists, assisting on India visit formalities- VISA and providing info on medical surgery treatment fee discounts and the Indian affordable medical health travel tour package cost savings.

Life Smile India as low priced medical health tourism agency operator and facilitation services provider has offshore health care trips assistance centers for medical health care tourism services to India providing information on Indian low-cost medical surgery treatment in the following countries- North and South America- USA, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Costa Rica, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, UAE, Singapore, Israel, Poland, France, Colombia, Hong Kong, China, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria, Bolivia, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Macedonia, Czech republic, Egypt, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Italy.

Life Smile has included some of these overseas patient testimonials and patient stories on medical surgery treatment in Indian hospitals and clinics, in the portal website; you are welcome to read a few foreign patients feedback story online- testimonials of visiting patients from abroad.

Life Smile through established relationships with finest board certified medical professionals- board certified surgeon, board certified doctor, physician and JCI – JCAHO accredited, government registered and approved private medical Healthcare facilities in India, serving to cost sensitive overseas patients care in helping international patients receive world-class medical surgery treatments at considerably lower costs and in almost no waiting periods. Life Smile, India takes care to provide the best of concierge services for the patients traveling abroad for their medical surgery treatments to ensure world-class facilitation services for a safe and comfortable medical tour vacations travel to India. Life Smile provides world-class low price facilitation services for the visiting overseas patients from abroad for their cheaper surgery treatment trip at the top rated private specialty hospital and clinical facilities in the following Indian cities- New Delhi, Mumbai- Bombay, Chennai- Madras, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvanthapuram- Trivandrum, Cochin, Kochi- Kerala, Vellore, Pune, Kolkata- Calcutta, Mohali- Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Coimbatore, Gurgaon, Noida, Thane, Panaji- Goa, Rishikesh, Dharamshala, Jaipur and Dehradun.

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