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Obesity What operation do me?
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Obesity surgery is so far the only definitive and long-term option to control morbid obesity, since the beginning of the obesity surgery there were three types of operations, restrictive surgeries (the most well known today gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy ), the disabsortivas (By Pass biliopancreatic) and mixed (Switch duodenal and jejunal gastric bypass). The restrictions seek to restrict the amount of food you can eat, how fast we eat and produce early satiety, bypass surgery as the biliopancreatic bypass eat normal portions of food but less assimilated and mixed as they are a mixture of both.

Statistically biliopancreatic bypass surgery is most successful is in terms of lost that, but that does not mean that other techniques are less good, depending on your style of eating that the patient wants to take, particular anatomical conditions, the type of diseases that have associated with their disease and last but not least every patient preferences may have.

A bariatric surgeon must prove that she has trained more than 300 operations to call expert with low levels of major complications and low or no mortality.

The surgeon is responsible for the operation and provide adequate guidance to each patient and the patient is responsible for the result, obesity surgery is a tool that allows the patient to control their weight responsibly.

Obesity surgery is a specialty with safe and efficient techniques to lose weight, operated responsibly decide not the easy option is the only valid in the long term and deserves the respect and support of those around him. Support groups to which patients and relatives come, are a good place to learn and interact with those who have already gone through the process.

Find a surgeon and above all with widely recognized experience in the field, not general enough to be a good surgeon to do these operations must be accepted as an expert by any bariatric society.