Patient Information - Follow-up Schedule

Patients should be seen at 6 week intervals in the first year.

Patients are then seen every 3 months in the next two years.

Follow up with a nutritionist is encouraged, as is attendance at a support group.

Your general health may also be improving as weight loss is progressing, and as a result, medications and dosages need to be adjusted. It is therefore critical that close follow up is also occurring with a patient's primary care physician.

The Lap-Band is easily reversible, but must be viewed as permanent. It should not be removed when patients have reached their target weight.

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