Prime Obesity Clinic

We have our patients lose their weights while keeping their health, thanks to our obesity surgery operations. While causing numerous health problems, ranging from type-2 diabetes, hypertension, high-cholesterol, sleep apnea, and psychological discomforts, overweight also creates lethal risks. Obesity surgery is the most effective and permanent solution being applied, when diet programs and physical exercise plans yield no result in the treatment of obesity. Obesity operations restrain your eating need, while lowering the absorption of foods. Following the Obesity Surgery operations, patients are caused to get rid of the whole of their extra kilos, remain at healthy wage levels, and adopt healthy nutrition as a life style. In the meantime, obesity surgery eliminates the lethal risks that arise in connection with obesity.

Obesity surgeries are conducted by laparoscopic (enclosed) method, applying small incisions. These operations are much more reliable and comfortable than the open ones, and their rehabilitation lasts shorter. It is a must for the patients to adopt healthy nutrition and physical exercising as a life style in order not to gain the extra kilos lost after Obesity Surgery.

Under Which Conditions Is Obesity Surgery Applied?

Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated by way of getting the body weight (kg) divided into the square of one’s height in meter. While the ones, whose Body Mass Indexes range from 25 to 29.9, are deemed as overweight, those with Body Mass Indexes higher than 30 are deemed as obese. Obesity surgery is applied to those who have failed to lose weight, despite their numerous diet and physical exercising attempts, and who have BMIs of 40 and above. Patients with BMIs higher than 35, and suffering from such obesity-related problems as diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, etc., are also recommended to undergo surgery. As being a non-surgical method, gastric baloon is primarily applied among those with BMIs of 35 and below.

Obesity Surgery Methods

Sleeve Gastrectomy (Gastric Sleeve)

It takes longer for the obese ones to reach to feeling of satiety. What is intended with sleeve gastrectomy is to diminish the volume of stomach, create feeling of satiety, and thereby to restrain excess food intake. 80% of the stomach is removed in this operation, while the digestive system is kept intact. For the surgery is performed painstakingly, postoperative lethal risks after sleeve gastrectomy are quite low. As the volume of the stomach is to diminish significantly after the surgery, meal portions will also become smaller, and one will begin losing weight rapidly. Sleeve gastrectomy not only brings the other health problems caused by obesity under control, but also strengthens one’s social life by way of restoring his/her self-confidence, thanks to weight loss. While conduct of the operation by laparoscopic method lowers the risks, it also causes the recovery period pass comfortably.

Gastric Bypass Surgery

In the Gastric Bypass operation, the volume of the stomach is diminished by way of by-passing a large part of it. Diminished volume stomach is thereupon linked with the small intestines. While the patient is caused to be full with less food by way of significantly minimizing the function of the stomach, this operation also has a combined effect of decreasing the food absorption due to having by-passed a part of the intestines, too. Unlike sleeve gastrectomy, rest of the stomach is not removed in the operation. Gastric bypass surgery is a more beneficial method for the obesity cases where diabetes comes to the fore. Since food absorption in the small intestines is eliminated by this operation, mineral and vitamin deficiencies are observed more therein in comparison to sleeve gastrectomy. However weight loss may be supported without mineral and vitamin deficiencies by way of keeping the patient under periodic doctor and dietician follow-up after the surgery. Loss of weight it brings about not only provides solution to the other diseases caused by overweight, type-2 diabetes being in particular, but also supports one’s mental health.

Gastric Baloon (Intragastric Balloon Application)

It is intended by the Gastric Baloon process to create feeling of satiety in the patient by way of diminishing the volume of the stomach by means of a baloon inserted therein. It supports your weight loss by way of diminishing your portion sizes. General anesthesia is not needed in this process being performed by endoscopic method within such a short period of 15 to 20 minutes. Leaving no surgery scar behind, it may bring about an average weight loss of 20 to 25 kg, though it may vary per person. Gastric baloon remains in the stomach for a period from 6 to 12 months, depending to the amount of weight loss intended.