Someone in good overall health, who is prepared to minimize their food intake for significant weight loss results, is ideal. If you carry excess weight and have a BMI above 30, you are a good candidate for gastric sleeve plication surgery in Mexico.

In the fight against obesity and excess weight, weight loss surgeries, such as bariatric surgery, deliver lasting weight loss. Recent advances in the medical field have proven that these weight loss surgeries not only dramatically influence the excess weight a patient carries, but it also balances the metabolism, especially the insulin and blood sugar levels. Medical professionals don’t completely understand how bariatric procedures, like gastric sleeve plication surgery, regulate insulin, blood sugar, diabetes, cholesterol, lipids, and sleep disorders (sleep apnea) but it is a fact that it has a direct impact for many patients.

Like in life, mental, physical, and nutritional preparation is essential to achieve the best outcome. Additional requirements may be suggested for you, depending on your condition.

Preoperative weight loss helps to detox your liver, making it lighter, and resulting in a quicker, safer weight loss procedure with less impact on your body. Even 5% reduction of your total body weight loss can lead to a dramatic improvement in your ability to respond to surgical stress.

Nourishment at a cellular level allows your body to compensate for the deficiencies you have accumulated over the years and the deficiencies that occur after undergoing weight loss surgery. Research reveals that the best way to replenish these deficiencies is with Bariatric Supplementation. This means that a Bariatric Multivitamin and a Bariatric Protein source before undergoing Gastric Plication surgery will enormously increase your safety profile and help you achieve a successful outcome. Mental preparation includes looking at the way we relate to food and being proactive in the first steps to a healthier diet and sustainable lifestyle.

At OCC, we have over 26,000 patients that have traveled to our Tijuana practice outside of San Diego with no major security incidents. Our state-of-the-art medical facility is in the heart of the commercial district, less than half a mile from the international border to the U.S.A. Tijuana, Mexico is now the second busiest medical destination for traveling patients. As one of the top medical facilities performing weight loss surgeries, OCC boasts four full United States-based accreditations for health and safety in performing bariatric surgery, including gastric plication surgery.

Depending on the surgery selected as being most appropriate for you, the prices can vary from around $5,500 to $9,000 dollars. We suggest you read our testimonials online, talk to other patients, and don’t be misled by price. The savings by coming to OCC is in the range of 50% of the cost of this surgery in the USA. Don’t take risks by seeking the lowest price – it is vital that you are under the care of bariatric surgeons with a reputation for excellence. Your health and wellbeing are of primary concern.

• 1 night stay at our world-renowned hospital
• 1 night stay at a local 5-star hotel
• Luxury transportation to and from the San Diego International Airport
• Team of three board-certified surgeons, including two anesthesiologists
• All operating room costs and surgical materials
• All pre-op evaluations and follow-up care

Gastric sleeve plication surgery delivers substantial weight loss in a relatively short period of time. Gastric sleeve plication surgery patients report about 65% EWL (excess weight loss) by 18 months post-surgery. For example, surgery patients with 100 lbs. excess weight typically lose in the range of 65 pounds.

Other factors that influence the total weight loss include the patient’s preparation for gastric sleeve surgery. This includes mental, physical, and nutritional preparation to lose weight. Pre-operative preparations include supplementation, protein intake, and reducing food consumption. At OCC, all patients are guided through pre-surgery preparation, along with 5 years of ongoing support following the procedure. OCC wellness is an online program that helps you achieve your goals.

The OCC Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve® is a standardized weight loss surgery technique in which the goal is to replicate gastric sleeve surgery. The only difference in this procedure is that the stomach is folded in instead of stapled and resected – a surgical technique that has proven to be extremely beneficial. No one has published a more comprehensive study on the effectiveness of plication and The Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve® than the Obesity Control Center.

Our surgical technique includes calculating the size of the residual volume and the pressure in the stomach while surgically performing the inward folds to reduce stomach size. The suture materials, the suturing technique, the layers of folds, and the specific anatomical points including the fundus, the incisure, and the pylorus, or outlet, are all part of this groundbreaking technique and each are addressed to avoid the symptoms that commonly arise with the traditional surgical technique.

Our many patients who have had gastric plication surgery have experienced fewer heartburn symptoms, if any, after surgery. This is a major difference between this procedure and the traditional gastric sleeve that often leads to reflux symptoms.

Every bariatric surgeon at Obesity Control Center® performs gastric plication surgeries laparoscopically, a minimally invasive approach. Laparoscopic surgery only requires several small incisions, resulting in a shorter surgery duration and hospital stay, fewer complications, faster full recovery, smaller scars, and less pain than older, open procedures.

It is common for patients who have undergone bariatric procedures to re-gain weight. The trick is to perform a minimally invasive gastric sleeve plication procedure that limits the amount of weight that can be regained. At OCC, our bariatric surgeries are performed to be safe and effective, and hopefully, permanent weight loss. Weight loss has to do with a structured bariatric program, it’s not just another surgery!

OCC’s complication rates are among the lowest in the published literature. Add that to the benefits of the New Improved Gastric Sleeve, and suddenly the results are more promising than ever.

As indicated in an article found at health.ucsd.edu, gastric plication surgery is safe.

With a state-of-the-art medical facility in Tijuana, Mexico, our medical team boasts a zero percent mortality rate. Every bariatric surgeon and healthcare provider on our medical staff values health and wellbeing. No bariatric surgeon performs gastric sleeve plication surgery on someone who is at risk of severe complications or other serious side effects.

Gastric sleeve surgery patients with preexisting conditions, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, as well as those who have undergone previous abdominal surgeries, are always appropriately evaluated by a healthcare provider on our medical team prior to surgery at our Tijuana practice.

Studies have shown that gastric plication surgery can dramatically reduce the risk of complications associated with traditional gastric sleeve surgery, due to our advanced suturing process. The procedure has also been recommended as the ideal revision surgery for patients who have experienced difficult complications from a primary lap band surgery.

Like other types of surgical procedures, complications such as leaks, bleeding, hernias, and chronic heartburn. At OCC, we are proud of our record of success in this surgical procedure. With over 26,000 procedures, we have streamlined not just the technique but entire surgical approach to gastric sleeve plication surgery. Preparation is key for success, and a fast recovery and holding your hand at every step.

Our complication rate is one of the lowest found in published literature. Our leak rate is 0%, and with the implementation of the new techniques designed at OCC, our patients lose weight substantially without suffering the undesirable symptom of heartburn or acid reflux.

There are symptoms associated with general anesthesia (sleepiness, dizziness, nausea, etc.), and others directly associated with the gastric sleeve itself (cramping, abdominal tenderness, vomiting). Fortunately, with the OCC surgical approach, these symptoms are kept to a minimum and treated early so most patients are up on their feet in a few hours and discharged the morning after. Many are out shopping the day after surgery!

Our process at OCC includes a gentle but short procedure that reduces the size of the stomach. The OCC difference includes specialized pencil-thin instruments and bladeless abdominal wall trocars (a medical instrument with a pointed end, inserted within a cannula, or hollow needle, to introduce a port). We use localized abdominal wall blocking agents that diminish the cascade of mediators that lead to pain and inflammation. We use half the amount of gas pressure, where others use 20mm/hg, we use 10 to 12mm/hg. This results in much less of the dreaded “gas pressure pains” associated with laparoscopic surgery. Our operating time is a fraction of the typical time reported in the literature. We’re in no hurry – we achieve these results by having streamlined the process. Less time under anesthesia means quicker full recovery times.

On average, most patients can tolerate around 30% of their pre-surgical intake after the stomach or pouch adjusts. This restriction is enough to maintain the weight loss through the years. Patients that expand their stomach to a point where they can eat more than 50% of their pre-surgical intake can be candidates for a quick stomach revision which entails performing a running stitch to adjust the size of the plicated stomach over a calibration tube.

In fact, this technique is so effective that patients who have a gastric sleeve with the same type of stomach stretching are candidates for the same technique. A simple sewing of the staple line over a calibration tube to adjust the size of the sleeve. These procedures tend to be quick, with little downtime and very effective where patients regain the original restriction they had after the surgical procedure.

Many patients require several months to adapt to the procedure. This is predictable, so our nutritionist works closely with each patient on a nutritional regimen that is easy to follow, allowing them to gradually move through each stage. You will start with a liquid diet for a few days, then drink liquids including the Bariatric Protein Meals, and then slowly move into soft, mushy food and, finally, a normal diet with a smaller amount of food. The smaller stomach size means you will feel full and satisfied after eating less food.

Daily activities and exercise should also progress at the same rate, but the surprising fact is that most patients recover much quicker than they expected; in fact, energy levels are usually higher than they thought possible, supported by a nutrition plan includes the Bariatric Multivitamin and Bariatric Protein Shakes our nutritional experts recommend.

The only thing you can’t do after surgery is overeating without having severe discomfort, nausea, or vomiting. Ideally, most patients are happy and satisfied eating three normal meals a day with three snacks between meals.

The Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve® is specifically designed to avoid the problems documented with the conventional plication technique. One of these problems was the herniation of the folded stomach through the suture line, a portion of the folded stomach popping out of the containment stitch and predisposing this segment to blood flow restriction due to strangulation. The modern technique avoids this by creating a double layer of running sutures that have been designed to contain effectively without tension over the stomach wall. This is achieved by using proprietary smart calibration tubes that measure the pressure inside of the stomach.

The surgical technique is similar to the procedure used in treating gastroesophageal reflux and heartburn. This technique entails the wrapping of the stomach around the highest part of the stomach and esophagus. Hundreds of thousands of these surgeries have been performed and without any adverse reactions in the stomach mucosa, in and around the folds, food stasis (delayed gastric emptying), or other complications. We now know that the plication surgery has the same benign effects when performed with the modern OCC technique.

Recent studies show that the inner lining of the stomach can start healing in as little as 6 hours! It is important to follow all the guidelines that we teach our patients prior to surgery to ensure an uneventful recovery and a positive result.

Like any surgery, there is a recovery time, and our nutrition team recommends not drinking for the first four months after your surgical procedure.

It starts with liquids during the first days then gradually progresses to very soft foods, then to semi-solids to regular food. All this occurs over the first couple of months. The good news is massive weight loss occurs during this time and all the health indicators dramatically improve during this period.

Yes, thankfully! This is what we have named the “Sleeve Rescue.” OCC is considered one of the top facilities for revision surgery (re-do surgery) and is frequently asked to treat patients that have regained weight or have heartburn symptoms after having gastric sleeve surgery. In fact, many of the popular cheaper centers are a constant flow of patients that have what we call “sloppy sleeves” (poorly performed surgery) that fail over time.

Patients will notice once they are past the liquid phase and eating full solids that the restriction level will result in around a third of the original meal volume. Eating a third of your typical meal will definitely induce weight loss and better overall health.