Obesity surgery is an operation to assist in losing weight. There are several surgical procedures. When diet, exercise, and pharmacological therapy fail to provide satisfactory outcomes in obese people, bariatric surgery may be used. Bariatric surgery should be conducted at full-service hospitals; it is advised for overweight patients with co-morbidities in addition to being overweight for “weight loss” objectives. Nonetheless, obesity surgery, which aims to restore a person’s health physiology, can be done in a variety of ways. These surgical procedures might differ based on the patient’s present state, health circumstances, and the doctor’s experience. Obesity, sometimes known as being overweight, is actually a metabolic condition. Because it can also lead to the development of a variety of metabolic illnesses. Obesity can lead to a variety of diseases, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular occlusions, heart attacks, gastric reflux, asthma, diabetes, joint diseases, liver failure, migraine, phlebitis, and polycystic ovary; it can also lead to cancers of the large intestine, esophagus, pancreas, prostate, and uterus, particularly breast cancer. Obesity surgery is advised for individuals with a BMI of 40 or higher (morbidly obese) or a BMI of 35 or higher who are unable to reduce weight using approaches such as medical diet, exercise, and medical therapy under the guidance of a specialist.

What are the Types of Obesity Surgery?

Sleeve Gastrectomy / Tube Stomach Surgery

The most often used obesity surgery in the world is known as sleeve gastrectomy. “Saturation with a little amount of food” is the goal of sleeve gastrectomy surgery, which is focused on narrowing the stomach. The hunger hormone is the ghrelin hormone, secreted from the fundus area, the upper section of the stomach. Because this component is eliminated to a significant amount in sleeve gastrectomy surgery, the feeling of “hunger” arrives relatively late after this operation, and there are evident decreases in appetite.

Gastric Clamp / Gastric Band

Other stomach reduction surgeries are more widely accepted when the success rate and hazards are considered. There will be no “decreased appetite” following gastric band surgery, in which “clamp or band” procedures on the stomach are conducted, which can drastically diminish the success rate after the surgery.

Mini Gastric Bypass (Mini Gastric Bypass, Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass, Omega Gastric Bypass)

The stomach is changed into a “long, thin” shape through sleeve gastrectomy, and the small intestines are connected to this region of the stomach. This technique, which can help patients with a severe co-morbid condition like diabetes, “get rid of diabetes,” is also referred to as “diabetic surgery.” It is one of the most common surgeries in the field of metabolic and obesity surgery.