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Re: Bariatric surgery for apnea?

Posted by Thunder Bay on December 27, 2005 at 13:02:23:

In Reply to: Re: Bariatric surgery for apnea? posted by seattlebill on December 27, 2005 at 09:00:59:

Hm, i never heard of the lap banding. I guess i need to research that

i just e-mailed the person i know who had the surgery done and she said that four years ago when she had it done, the lap banding was not performed as often, and she wanted to have the more mainstream procedure done, the one that was done more often and therefore the docs had acquired more expertise in....

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