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Bryan J. Anderson, Director of the Minimally Invasive Bariatric Program, is a native Idahoan and is a graduate of the University of Idaho. Dr. Anderson is a member of the medical staff at both Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital Regional Medical Center. He attended medical school at the University of Arizona where he received his Medical Degree in 1994. Dr. Anderson completed his General Surgery Residency at Michigan State University in 1999 and is board certified in General Surgery. He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the Idaho Medical Association and Ada County Medical Association. He currently serves as the chairman of the Operating Room committee at St. Alphonsus and is a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.
What is Lap Band Surgery?
Gastric LAP-BAND® surgery has many distinct advantages over other weight loss surgery procedures. The recovery time for Dr. Anderson's patients is minimal. Patients typically stay overnight and go home the next day due to the procedure's minimally invasive approach. The LAP-BAND® procedure is performed "laparoscopically", which means the gastric band is placed with thin surgical instruments and small incisions. Laproscopic instruments have small cameras that allow the gastric LAP-BAND® to be placed around the upper part of the stomach without cutting or stapling, resulting in faster recovery time.
How Does it Work?
The LAP-BAND® (i.e., "gastric band") is an inflatable device that is placed around the upper area of the stomach. By cinching the top of the stomach, two things occur. First and most obvious, your stomach becomes smaller and logically a smaller stomach means that you will not be able to eat as much. Second, cinching the top area of the stomach creates a little pouch that slows the emptying process into the stomach. The combination of these two factors causes patients to eat less and feel fuller for a longer period of time. The lap-band is inflated and adjusted through a tiny access port under the skin. Since finding the right size for your stomach can be a matter of trial and error, your surgeon injects or removes saline from the lap-band to increase or decrease restriction which limits the amount of food you can eat.