Am I A Candidate?

Texas Laparoscopic Consultants offers a comprehensive program that serves as a guide throughout your weight loss journey. Our program is designed to help you long-term, providing you with assistance and support before your surgery, through to your procedure, and after your surgery with proper diet and exercise programs.

We make this commitment of assistance to you because we care about helping you successfully attain your goals and get on the road to better health and a slimmer physique. In so doing, we ask that you also make a commitment to us. Please be sure to follow our recommendations before and after surgery in order to minimize the risk of complications and help to ensure a successful outcome.

Please contact TLC for more information on weight loss surgery candidacy.

Patient Eligibility Criteria

Patient eligibility criteria at TLC is based on the candidacy guidelines established by the National Institute of Health. These include:

• Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or greater, with or without comorbidities (conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, and/or others related to severe obesity)
• BMI greater than 35 with comorbidities
• Commitment to permanent lifestyle changes, including exercise
• Willingness to commit to treatment and long-term follow-up
• Proof that you have tried non-surgical weight loss methods and have failed to achieve significant results
• Non-smoker
• Family and social environment that is supportive
• Accepting of operative and medical risks
• Demonstrates sufficient ability to understand the surgery, potential complications, and associated lifestyle changes that will need to occur

*** The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently changed the guidelines for LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding surgery that makes many more people eligible for the procedure. The new recommendation lowers the eligibility requirement for the LAP-BAND® System to include candidates with a BMI of 30 to 35, as long as they have at least one comorbidity linked to obesity. Our team at Texas Laparoscopic Consultants will be happy to talk about these new changes with you.