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What does the gastric balloon procedure involve?
Intragastric balloon implantation is a weight-loss technique in which a saline-filled/air-filled silicone balloon is placed in your stomach. This aids weight loss by restricting how much you can eat and making you feel filled sooner. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed discusses gastric balloon procedures.
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The benefits of the gastric balloon are that it is a simple, non-invasive procedure. The traditional gastric balloons do require sedation or anesthesia to be inserted under endoscopy and also to be removed 6 or 12 months later. However, the new generation of gastric balloons can actually be swallowed in the office as a capsule, not requiring any kind of sedation, anesthesia, or endoscopy, and the capsule then expands into a balloon, which after four months spontaneously defills itself, and the plastic shell of the balloon makes its way out through the gastrointestinal tract and comes out in a natural bowel movement. you
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