Bariatric surgery procedures should be treated as tools that can help you change your eating habits to gradually lose weight. Each one has its pros and cons as applied to specific cases. Dr. Kent has retired from doing surgery, but has the hand on experience and knowledge to counsel patients regarding surgical weight procedures as well as providing opinions regarding a wide variety of general surgical procedures that he has performed. He also has years of experience counseling patients on how to lose weight and provides injections to help patients with their weight loss journey.

• Adjustable Gastric Banding (commonly known as the LAP-BAND®) Dr. Kent still manages patients who have had a lap band implanted.
• Orbera Intragastric Balloon. Orbera an FDA approved temporary implant to aid you in losing weight. Insurance plans do not cover this procedure.
• Roux Y Gastric Bypass.Our practice has done hundreds of these operations and still follow patients who have had this operation. We do not currently perform this procedure but we can answer your questions about it.
• Gastric Sleeve Resection. We have done a number of these procedures but we are not currently doing them. If you have questions about this operation, we can answer them.
• Biliopancreatic Diversion. We do not offer this procedure but can refer you to surgeons who do. Dr. Kent can answer questions about this procedure during your appointment.
• Currently we offer weight management programs where we use injections of GLP-1 agonists (e,g,, semaglutide which is the main ingredient of Ozempic and Wegovy and tirzepatide which is the main ingredient of Mounjaro and Zepbound) which are currently the most effective means of aiding weight loss without surgery. We also provide dietary counseling, recommend exercise programs, and monitor our patients monthly to keep them accountable for their weight loss journey.

It is important for a patient to gain an in-depth understanding of the procedures and the use of weight loss injections. Dr. Kent can give you information regarding the various methods to help you lose weight.

It’s not just about health, either. Activities of daily living are more difficult or impossible when you are carrying the weight of another person on your back. Climbing a flight of stairs is exhausting. Theater and airplane seats are made for smaller people. It is hard to get in and out of a car. You need to ask for a seat belt extender on airplanes. It can get so bad that your arms are too short to reach all parts of your body and even personal hygiene becomes a problem.

Non operative weight loss programs just don’t work for most morbidly obese people. Weight loss injections can help with weight loss for many people. We do have patients who have lost as much as 100 pounds using injections. However, surgery and weight loss injections are not magic. If you want to lose weight successfully and keep it off, you must change your lifestyle as well as make regular visits to our office to monitor your weight and to be accountable to yourself. Our experience is that the most successful patients follow the guidelines we provide and show up regularly for their appointments.

Our practice has been providing weight loss injections for over a year and a half and we have treated more than 100 patients. Some of our patients have lost as much as 75-100 pounds on our program of dietary guidance, activity and weight loss injections. We have also treated a number of patients whose weight loss was unsatisfactory after surgical procedures.

Currently we treat our patients with semaglutide (the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (found in Mounjaro and Zepbound). We provide each patient with personal counseling, an information handout detailing what to expect with treatment–and what we expect from our patients to succeed in their weight loss journey. We believe that following our patients every month to resupply them with their medication and check on their progress. During these brief visits we also check for side effects from the medications we use.

In order to provide the best care, we continually check for the availability of new and better medications and weight loss advice.

Call us today for more information. We will be happy to talk to you about weight loss injections and also about the details of weight loss operations.