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Considering weight loss surgery? As you do your homework to see if it's a good choice for you, you'll want to learn about the various types of operations.

What's best for you depends on your goals, your health, your surgeon's recommendation, and which operations your health insurance covers.



Types of Weight Loss Surgeries

Existing surgeries help with weight loss in different ways.


Malabsorptive/restrictive surgeries change how you take in food. They give you a smaller stomach and also remove or bypass part of your digestive tract, which makes it harder for your body to absorb calories. Doctors don't do purely malabsorptive surgeries -- also called intestinal bypasses -- anymore because of the side effects.

Implanting an electrical device, the newest of the three techniques, prompts weight loss by interrupting nerve signals between the stomach and the brain.

Adjustable Gastric Banding



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