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What Do Bariatric Doctors Do And How Can They Help Me?

Bariatric doctors usually help with weight loss for the obese. Usually you have to be at a body mass index of at least 35 to be considered obese. These doctors specialize in different types of bariatric surgeries to drastically reduce weight loss (such as different types of gastric bypass surgeries). Many times there are health […]

What Exactly Do Bariatric Physicians Do?

Bariatric physicians are doctors that specialize in helping overweight and obese patients to not only lose weight but to keep it off. These doctors will examine and evaluate their patients to locate the cause of obesity. The cause may be an illness or a disease that the patient never knew they had! The doctor will […]

How Bariatric Weight Loss Can Help You

Bariatric weight loss is typically for those who are obese, but it can be for anyone who is overweight. Bariatric by definition means not only preventing, treating and curing obesity, but finding the cause of obesity and preventing it from happening again. Therefore, bariatric weight loss also focuses on keeping the extra weight off as […]

How Safe Is Bariatric Lap-Band Surgery?

Bariatric Lap-Band surgeries have minimal risks compared to other surgeries that require you to go under the knife, but they still come with their own risks. Besides the usual risks that come with surgeries (such as infection, swelling, irritation, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, dehydration, etc), there are certain risks associated specifically to bariatric Lap-Band surgeries. Once […]

Will Insurance Cover Bariatric Lap-Band Surgery?

Bariatric Lap-Band surgery is one of the safest surgeries to help with weight loss, but it can also be expensive too (as with most any type of surgery). For this reason, many insurances (such as Blue Cross (in some states), Humana, One Health, Medicaid, First Health, Tufts Health Plan, United Healthcare, Oxford Health Plan, and […]