All provinces do not consider the surgical treatment of morbid obesity as an insured service under the Law on Health Insurance. You should check with the authority on health in your province.

The provinces felt that the surgical treatment of morbid obesity is a service, like Quebec, have waiting lists very long because of the limited number of surgeons trained to perform these procedures safely and effectively. In Quebec, the waiting for bariatric surgery may be as long as 3 to 7 years, when the patient communicates with the bariatric surgery center, until the surgery is performed.

What kind of bariatric procedures do you practice?

We offer the RY gastric bypass laparoscopi, and anneu laparoscopic adjustable gastric our medical center (Metropolitan Surgery Center-CMC) and the RY gastric bypass and laparoscopic biliopancreatic bypass, laparoscopic DS at University Health Center (MUHC). Patients who are super-super obese (over 400 pounds) or patients with medical problems or complex surgery are not candidates for the CMC. Consequently, they can be operated at the MUHC.

We practice of revision surgeries for patients who failed their weight loss after bariatric surgery underwent some here or elsewhere: gastric banding, vertical gastroplasty or bypass clogged jéjunéale performed by us or elsewhere). We practice all these revisions by laparoscopy with a success rate of 95%.

Several reasons motivate people suffering from morbid obesity to resort to bariatric surgery:

• An important study by Dr. Christou has shown that bariatric surgery can reduce the risk of premature death by 89% in morbidly obese patients operated on and lose enough weight, when compared to morbidly obese patients who have not been made.
• Patients who are morbidly obese have much higher rates of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease than non-obese patients. These health problems are improved or eliminated following a successful weight loss in almost 90% of patients.
• Diets usually do not work long term. Only 3 to 5% of all people trying to lose weight by this method successfully maintain their weight over five years.
• Medical experts have determined that bariatric surgery was the only permanent solution for weight loss. The NIH of the United States has in fact met in 1991 and 1996, a pannel of experts and earned a decisive consensus that bariatric surgery was the best way to lose weight in the morbidly obese, when all other methods have failed for them. That consensus has since been repeated by other experts.

For many, cosmetic surgery has always been thought of a female thing. This option has always been that men are too burly and masculine to deal with cosmetic surgery. Well, things have changed since then. In recent years there has been a significant increase in men with plastic surgery for different reasons.

Some of the different things that men are using plastic surgery to our face lifts and skin hardening. One of the biggest things that men resort to cosmetic surgery is a weight loss surgery. And weight loss from liposuction surgery is one of those procedures.

With obesity is the biggest disease in the United States, not surprisingly, weight loss, liposuction and surgery has become almost commonplace. Some see this as the achievement of the system to lose weight and many believe that this is purely frivolous. However you look, the fact is that this trend is not one to be anytime soon.

Approximately 10% of all cosmetic surgery patients currently involves men and this figure is only scheduled to go up. Part of the reason that liposuction is one of the popular treatments is that this procedure tends to be very effective in fat deposits are usually concentrated in an area that usually around the belly, while women with fat candy dish in many different places. Again, because of the perceived situation treatment may tend to be a successful and long lasting treatment option for men.

What is important is that any person whether man or woman who is considering weight loss surgery as an option should consult their doctor and specialists in cosmetic surgery. Whether you opt for liposuction or a tummy tuck, you can be sure they are not alone in their quest to see better and feel better.