Weight Loss Surgery Options in Los Angeles

Also known as sleeve gastrectomy, gastric sleeve surgery is a weight loss procedure that involves surgically reducing the size of your stomach and removing a portion responsibile for producing a hunger-stimulating hormone known as ghrelin. This allows you to feel full and satisfied after eating much smaller portions, resulting in rapid weight loss and a long-term change in the way you eat.

One of the latest FDA-approved weight loss options, gastric balloon is a non-surgical procedure that uses balloons to temporarily occupy space in the stomach. This triggers feelings of fullness so you eat less and can lose a substantial amount of weight with ease.

Also known as gastric banding, LAP-BAND is one of the less invasive ways to treat obesity. It involves placing a band around part of the stomach, reducing its size and limiting the amount of food you can comfortably consume. In this way, LAP-BAND ensures substantial weight loss that you can maintain for years to come.

Gastric plication is one of the newest minimally-invasive procedures for weight loss available today. It involves sewing large folds into your stomach, reducing its capacity to approximately three ounces. This prevents you from overeating so you can easily lose a substantial amount of weight.

Gastric bypass is one of the most common weight loss surgeries available. An intensive procedure, it works by reducing the size of the stomach and rerouting a portion of the intestines. The smaller stomach prevents overeating and the change to your intestines prevents your body from absorbing the full amount of calories you consume.

A brand new treatment for obesity, the gastric pacemaker helps patients lose weight by stimulating the vagus nerve that runs from the brain to the stomach. In this way, the device blocks communication between the brain and the stomach - tricking the brain into believing the body is full.

In some cases, patients may need to revise their bariatric surgery to remedy unwanted side effects, insufficient weight loss and other complications. When this occurs, Dr. David Davtyan will perform your revision procedure in the most minimially-invasive way possible, ensuring you're back on the road to weight loss in no time.

It's very common for patients to lose a substantial amount of weight within the first twelve to eighteen months following bariatric surgery. And while this is mostly a welcome occurrence, it also tends to leave you with excess, sagging skin that no longer conforms to your new body shape and size.