First, the assessment and advice by an expert who can tell you if you are a candidate. If you are eligible, the second step is to find out which procedure would be most suitable for your case, as every situation is different.
Each member of the team covers a different need, it is important that you really know who will be in charge of what, so that any doubts you may have can be directed to each specialist. All of them also share the same goal: to improve your quality of life!
No. Bypass is a procedure that causes malabsorption, but with proper advice and follow-up it will not cause malnutrition at any point in time.
Yes. Apart from the fact that the programmes we manage are to improve your general quality of life, in all bariatric surgeries the complications increase if you do not stop smoking.