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Your navel may now be the doorway to improved health, thanks to a new procedure that enables surgeons to perform the laparoscopic banding procedure through the navel. Called single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS™), it’s the most advanced laparoscopic surgical technique available today, and we're the first in the region to offer it.
To perform the surgery, our bariatric surgeons will make a small incision in the navel and insert the SILS device, a firm but flexible plug that stays in the navel throughout surgery. The device has four holes: one to pump in air, creating an open space in which to work; one for a camera; and two through which the surgeons will place their instruments. The device is airtight, allowing the surgical field to remain sterile. Once the lap band is in place, the surgeons will remove their instruments and the SILS device, then close the incision. Because the technique is so new, our surgeons will initially perform single-incision laparoscopic surgery only with select patients, generally women with a BMI of 45 or less who have never had abdominal surgery before.
Best of all, they get the same great health benefits from laparoscopic banding as before: significant weight loss and improvement of co-morbid conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obstructive sleep apnea. For more information about the risks and advantages of laparoscopic banding, please click here.
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One of the benefits of the laparoscopic banding procedure is that it’s minimally invasive. Until now, surgeons have performed the procedure using several small incisions. But using this new technique, the surgeons at the Center for Bariatric Surgery have a new technique that enables them to perform the surgery using just one incision in the navel. 
Patients appreciate the cosmetic benefit of this surgical technique. In the past they might have had three or four small scars; now, they have one inside the navel, or none at all. But there’s another, more important benefit to single-incision surgery. With fewer cuts, patients experience less pain.