Breast Augmentation

Laparoscopic gastric banding is a surgery which helps with weight loss. The surgeon places a band around the upper part of your stomach to create a small pouch to hold food. The band always limits the amount of food which you can eat by making you feel full after eating small amounts of food. After Surgery, The doctor can adjust the band to make food pass more slowly or quickly through your stomach. How Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Surgery is Performed Surgery is done by using a tiny camera that is placed in your belly. This type of surgery is called laparoscopy. The camera is called a laparoscope. It allows the surgeon to look inside the belly. In this Surgery: The surgeon will make 1 to 5 small surgical cuts in your abdomen. Through these small cuts, the surgeon will place a camera and the instruments needed to perform the surgery. After that surgeon will place a band around the upper part of your stomach which helps in separating it from the lower part....

What is Stretch Marks? Stretch marks are lines or bands which are caused by stretching of the skin's connective tissue. When the middle layer of skin stretches too quickly, some of its collagen fiber can break. It allows underlying blood vessels to see through, leaving behind the telltale red or purplish marks. Stretch marks are generally not physically painful, but they can affect a person's confidence and self -esteem. They can be disfiguring in severe cases. There is no treatment which has been shown to erase them fully. There are new ways of treating stretch marks are emerging, however, and some of them show promise. Risk Factors The logic why some people get stretch marks and others do not remains unclear. There are some people who are more prone to getting stretch marks due to genetics or certain hormone levels. High levels of steroid hormones in the body appear to play a role in some cases. People who have Cushing disease tend to get stretch marks which ar...