When it’s about weight loss surgery, there are numerous choices available these days including classical Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic and robotic adjustable gastric banding. You may have read a lot about lap band and how adjustable gastric banding works, but here the question is which weight loss surgery can prove the best for the patients with very high BMI.

Here we need to define what we really reckon when we talk about a particularly high BMI. Usually it is reckoned that obesity starts with a BMI (Body mass index) of 30 and counts as morbid obesity at 40 and at this point most doctors have to consider a surgical solution for this problem. Almost all forms of weight loss surgery are generally suitable for patients with a BMI in the 40s if they don’t have some co-existing medical condition. However, when BMI begins to cross the limit of 50s, the choices begin to become limited and the risk of gastric bypass surgery rise sharply.

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