The bariatric surgeons in Houston have achieved what is said to be a milestone by performing 250 single incision weight loss surgeries. This technique was first utilized by the laparoscopic consultants at Texas who achieved results in getting rid of obesity in a much quicker format of time.

In the entire United States of America, about 10 million of them are supposed to be suffering from obesity. Out of every 3 people in US, one of them weighs more than 100 pounds which is about 20% more than the ideal weight of an individual. As a result of this, many Americans are looking for weight loss surgery options like vertical sleeve surgery, bariatric surgery etc to get rid of the extra weight. With diet programs and exercise not able to get the required results, the people are depended on the aforesaid weight loss procedures. Among these people many are such who are not undergoing any weight loss surgery treatment because they fear it might result in the scarring of the abdominal region.

The single incision weight loss procedure makes use of small medical equipments and a camera to perform the operation. An incision is made near the navel measuring about 5 cm in diameter. After this, the surgery is continued by visualizing it with a camera that shows the inside of the body on a video monitor. The god thing about this technique is that it eliminates the need of multiple incisions that is required on the abdominal walls. This surgery method is celebrating its 250^th successful operation without any kind of side effects or complications.

Dr. Sherman Yu and Dr. Terry Scarborough are the two surgeons who made this daunting task possible and are the very first people who started this novel technique in Texas. In their words, single incision weight loss surgery has got a large number of benefits like it is minimum invasive, least amount of pain involved, quick recovery time and no side effects at all.