If you have been considering bariatric surgery, you may have realized you have many different procedure options. You might be wondering how to go about choosing the best bariatric procedure for your health.  There are three main weight loss surgery procedures in the field of bariatrics that help p...

In the field of weight loss surgery, there are three standard bariatric procedures that help patients lose weight and keep the weight off. The oldest procedure is the gastric bypass, although the gastric sleeve has gained popularity in recent years due to its perceived simplicity. Yet aside from the...

The duodenal switch is a combination of the gastric sleeve and the gastric bypass. The biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, commonly referred to as the duodenal switch (DS), statistically has the best overall weight loss results despite the frequency at which it is performed.  On avera...

The gastric sleeve is an operation where we remove about three-quarters of the stomach. Your stomach goes from a large, expandable stomach to a very narrow, high-pressure tube of a stomach.  Bariatric surgeons have been doing this operation in the United States for over a decade now. The initial th...