Of all the methods of gastric bypass, lap band surgery is said to be the safest. Candidates for this type of surgery are obese and may have had no success reducing their weight through exercise or dieting. The procedure itself takes roughly forty minutes under anesthesia. An inflatable band is squeezed around the stomach and tied rather like a belt, dividing the stomach into two parts; the small upper and larger lower sections. Between these parts lies the stoma and this is affected by the amount of saline which the lap band contains, which in turn controls the amounts of More >