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Oct
Don’t Wait to Change Your Life. Get Fast-Tracked for Bariatric Surgery at OCC
Getting an insurance company to pay for weight-loss surgery can take years—that is, if you're even approved at all. Having to navigate through the inevitable red tape only to be denied can be incredibly disheartening. Prolonged waiting times can not only be discouragi...
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Oct
How Revision Surgery At OCC Can Turn A Failed Bariatric Procedure Into A Success
It's important to get bariatric surgery right the first time as bariatric revision surgeries are more expensive and difficult to perform, and they are normally not covered by insurance. But if your sleeve fails, you can either give up or try again—this time with the b...
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Oct
6 Potential Indications for a Revision Procedure
A gastric sleeve procedure is one of the most popular forms of bariatric surgeries performed today. While this type of procedure may provide patients with the best solution to achieving sustained weight loss, it can fail for others. Complications can arise even for the best candi...
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Oct
Nervous About Scarring? No Need With The OCC No-Touch Technique
Whether scars will exist after a procedure is one of the most common concerns about bariatric surgeries. How big will the scar be? Is it permanent? Scarring after a bariatric procedure such as gastric sleeve surgery is normal. Scars will appear because small cuts are made during...
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Oct
US Health Professionals Choose Surgery In Mexico. Why?
We often forget that health professionals aren't always wearing scrubs. Sometimes they’re the ones in gowns, seeking treatment like any other patient. Except when nurses and doctors-people who know medicine and healthcare best–select their own doctors and...
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Oct
Can Bariatric Surgery Cure More Than Just Obesity?
At Obesity Control Center (OCC), we treat people of all ages and sizes. With the highest safety standards in the field and over 23,000 surgeries performed, our results are unparalleled. Combined with having the lowest complication rate on record, being innovators within the baria...
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Oct
10 Myths About Gastric Surgery
While bariatric surgery is a need for some because of struggling with issues of obesity, for others, it remains an elective procedure to address metabolic diseases and provides an outlet to achieve metabolic health. But the decision to receive surgery, whether required or as an e...
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Oct
The Sleeve Sisters: 5 Ordinary Women Take an Extraordinary Journey
The Sleeve Sisters from left to right: Suzanne Morris, Mikaela Brylie, Holly Bell, Rebecca Graham, and Mindy Shipley>>A weight loss journey can be tiring and difficult, but our supportive team at Obesity Control Center strives to make your journey a bit easier and mor...
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Oct
The Double Buttress Technique, an OCC exclusive.
What is the Double Buttress Technique? The DBTAs medical professionals we are taught to frequently question the status quo. I personally am always looking for ways to improve quality, safety and outcomes. This is something we have built into our practice and and to the mentality...
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Oct
Improved Gastric Sleeve vs Regular Gastric Sleeve
Can something good be improved upon? The Gastric Sleeve has had some negative press recently. Check out what OCC has done to make a good procedure even better. The Sleeve: What's good about it? The gastric sleeve surgery has been around for two decades, and in that time it...
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Oct
Gastric Sleeve rules: using the sleeve for weight loss success
Bariatric surgery is the best tool available for people with obesity that want a better lifestyle, increase years to their lives and look forward to being their very best selves. Sadly, since surgery does pretty much all the work during the first months and weight loss is easily a...
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Oct
Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgey
Patients may often feel embarrassed or guilty when there is a sudden weight gain or when a plateau occurs. These feelings and the reactions they cause can impact and/or put health, weight loss, and nutritional status at risk. Patients who regain more than 22 pounds (10 kilograms)...
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