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Bariatric Surgery Center

Bariatric surgery (also known as weight loss surgery) is any surgical alteration of the digestive organs to lose weight. The most common procedures are gastric bypass and gastric banding (also known as stomach bypass or stomach banding). Specific types include biliopancreatic diversion (BPD), duodenal switch, gastroplasty, jejunoileal bypass and silastic ring gastric bypass.

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