Elanic has a full specialist bariatric team offering our surgical weight loss service - supported by our bariatric nurse and dietician.
Gastric Balloon
The gastric balloon is a temporary solution to encourage weight loss. It is the non-surgical weight loss alternative for people who want an intense period of weight loss and who understand that they must keep to a sensible eating programme after their balloon is removed.
The balloon works by partially filling your stomach so that you feel less hungry, fuller quicker, and helps you to change your relationship with food. It is left in place for a period of six months, after which it will be removed, enabling you to enjoy your newfound relationship with healthy eating.
Gastric Band
The Gastric Band is a small inflatable band that fits around the top of your stomach, greatly reducing the amount of food needed for you to feel full. This in turn helps you to lose weight, and enables you to keep it off for as long as possible.
Once the gastric band has been placed and is inflated, it creates a small upper stomach pouch with a narrowed outlet. This directly limits the stomach’s capacity to intake food, increasing the feeling of fullness in the process. The combination of these two effects normally results in significant weight loss. You will need to attend follow-up consultations with your surgeon and a dietician to monitor your progress and your weight loss.
Gastric Sleeve
Elanic is one of the few independent cosmetic surgery groups to offer a gastric sleeve procedure; performed by our specialist bariatric consultant surgeon Chris Shearer. If you’ve been struggling to effectively lose weight, this procedure might be an effective solution.
A gastric sleeve is a surgical procedure that greatly reduces the capacity of the stomach, by around 75%, which ultimately results in long-term weight loss and vastly improved the health of our patients. A sleeve gastrectomy also removes the part of your stomach that produces the hunger-stimulating hormone ghrelin, which also aids in your weight-loss journey by greatly reducing your hunger urges and appetite.
