For those who are tired of being overweight, have trouble sticking to a lifestyle conducive to weight loss, or do not want to go through an anatomy-changing weight loss surgery, the medical community has developed a new option to help you shed those unwanted pounds ... aspiration therapy.
This new weight loss option requires a patient to have a “less-evasive” outpatient procedure in which a bariatric surgeon will create a small incision in their abdomen, cut a small hole in their stomach, place a tube in their stomach, and then run the other end of that tube into the hole in their abdomen.
This tube in the patient’s abdomen, otherwise known in the medical community as the port, is anchored down with a plastic covering so that it does not shift during normal daily activities.
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