Are you a Candidate?

Who can have surgery?

After a period of behavioral evaluation a multidisciplinary team of specialists selects the patients that meet the criteria for surgery; these criteria are based on the protocols of bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery). If you are one of the people selected you must commit to keeping all of your appointments before and after the surgery so that you can reach the goals you set for yourself.

What weight reduction surgery does is limit the amount of food you can eat, the amount of calories your body can absorb or both.

Who can have weight loss surgery?

• People with extreme obesity and excess weight that have been diagnosed by health care professionals.
• People who have tried to lose weight under medical supervision without success (3 or more tries in the last 2 years)

Surgery in candidates is the most effective method of treatment compared to any form of management, providing the most probabilities of losing weight, safely and successfully.

What surgery does is reduce the amount of food you can eat, reduce the amount of calories your body can absorb, or both.

You are a candidate if: