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Our expert weight loss specialists have helped change the lives of patients across GCC. Our support network will ensure you’ll receive all the support and advice from our specialist nurses and dietitian to get the most out of your surgery.
Being overweight or obese can have a serious impact on both your physical and mental well-being. It can negatively affect your self-confidence and self-esteem and put you at increased risk for serious health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
If you’re still struggling to lose weight even after dieting and exercising, these types of treatments can help give you the extra boost you and your health need to help shed significant amounts of weight.
We can help you choose the treatment that’s right for you, helping to give you the energy and self-confidence to enjoy a healthy life.
HOD, Consultant Laparoscopic and Robotic General and Bariatric Surgeon
The below calculator provides body mass index (BMI) and the corresponding BMI weight status category for adults 20 years and older.
Note: This is a basic BMI Calculator for Body Mass Index calculation, for more accurate results you may visit our weight loss clinic.
The Gastric Balloon is the non-surgical weight loss alternative for people who want an intense period of weight loss and who understand that they must keep to a sensible eating programme after their balloon is removed.
The balloon is designed to induce weight loss by partially filling your stomach so that you get less hungry, feel fuller quicker, and importantly alter your personal relationship with food. It does so by utilizing it alongside a dedicated follow-up and support programme.
The Gastric Band is a small inflatable band that fits around the top of your stomach to restrict your food intake and control your hunger.
When the band is inflated it creates a small upper stomach pouch and a narrowed outlet, limiting the stomach’s capacity to intake food and increasing the feeling of fullness. The combination of these two effects results in significant weight loss.
The purpose of the MGB (Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass) is to create a smaller stomach (a mini stomach) that is long and narrow and that bypasses a section of the small intestine before any food is absorbed. The new mini stomach will hold only a small amount of food which leads to early satiety.
The MGB works by restricting the amount of food that can be eaten at any one time, and by altering the gut hormones involved in appetite control.
The Gastric Sleeve is an ideal choice of procedure for people who want a long-term surgical option, but prefer not to have an implanted device, such as a gastric band. This is an exciting weight loss option that combines many of the advantages of a gastric band with those of a gastric bypass.
It works by removing a portion of the stomach to reduce its’ size by around 80%*. The resulting decrease in capacity leads to substantial weight loss. This is an excellent choice of procedure for people who do not want the anatomical alteration and ongoing side effects of a gastric bypass or the insertion of a device such as a gastric band.
* Results may differ from person to person and won’t be the same for everyone.
Gastric Plication is an operation to reduce the size of the stomach and is an exciting advancement in the field of weight loss surgery. It is a restrictive procedure that reduces the size of the stomach in a minimally invasive way that does not involve any cutting.
By decreasing the size of your stomach, the amount of food you can consume is considerably reduced. You will experience a feeling of fullness after eating only a small portion of food and that feeling of fullness will last for longer.
Revision weight loss surgery is a surgical procedure that is performed on patients who have already undergone a weight loss procedure, and have either had complications from the surgery or have not successfully achieved significant weight loss results from the initial surgery. Procedures are usually performed laparoscopically, though open surgery may be required if prior bariatric surgery has resulted in extensive scarring. If you have had previous surgery your choice of revisional surgery may be limited but certainly worth investigating.
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