Welcome to Cincinnati Weight Loss Center - experts in Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Surgery (LAP-BAND, REALIZE Band)
Thank you for visiting Cincinnati Weight Loss Center. Our mission is to maximize your weight loss success using the latest research and technology and providing this in a supportive environment. Since we are all weight loss patients ourselves we are passionate about helping you succeed.
What we offer
- Surgical Weight Loss
- LAP-BAND® (Allergan)
- REALIZE Band (Ethicon Endosurgery)
- New Weight Loss Procedure-Gastric Plication Surgery (GPS)
Learn More - SILS (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery)
- Band over bypass for weight regain after gastric bypass
- ROSE incisionless surgery for weight regain after gastric bypass
- Endoscopic surgery
- Repair/revision of band prolapse, pouch dilation, "slip" and others
- Medical Weight Loss
- General surgery
- Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (EGD "stomach scope", colonoscopy)
- Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder)
- Laparoscopic hernia repair
The CWLC Difference
Cincinnati Weight Loss Center is owned by Dr. Watkins, not a large corporation. This allows us to provide you with the kind of customer experience that family owned businesses like ours can provide. Most of our competitors focus on surgery. We focus on weight loss. There is a huge difference between the two philosophies. Other practices try to compete with us by lowering their price. We focus on maximizing your weight loss success. We don't strive to be the "cheapest in town". That is not a good weight loss model. We strive to provide the best weight loss success in every patient. We offer value - the lowest cost per pound lost. We get a lot of transfer patients who had gastric band surgery elsewhere and are disappointed with their post-op program so they transfer to our practice where we help them achieve their weight loss goals.
Many practices don't monitor their weight loss success. We do, and have published five scientific articles on gastric band weight loss. We started doing band surgery shortly after it was FDA approved in the United States (June 2001). Since then we've completed nearly 5,000 gastric band procedures and have experience with band adjustments that number in the tens of thousands.
That extensive experience has taught us many import things on how to perform gastric band surgery and how to take care of patients afterward to minimize their frustration and maximize their weight loss success. We repair/revise a lot of band operations done improperly by other practices. Patients who choose our practice want it done right the first time and want to maximize their weight loss success. People who only care about getting the cheapest surgery and don't care if they lose weight afterward go to our competitors.
Medical Weight Loss
Obesity is a complex disease that requires complex treatment. Many medical weight loss programs are geared toward short-term success. Our approach is to maximize your long-term success. We do this through medical screening and education and by taking advantage of new technology such as metabolism measurement and biometric armbands. This is complimented by our team of nutritionists, counselors and fitness professionals.
Dr. Brad Watkins
Dr. Brad Watkins is one of the few surgeons in the United States who:
- Has completed well over 1,000 gastric band procedures
- Has experience with nearly 5,000 procedures in his gastric band clinics
- FDA proctoring surgeon for both band companies (Allergan, Ethicon)
- Published five academic papers on gastric banding in the surgical literature
- Performs band-over-bypass procedure
- Performs the new incisionless ROSE procedure
- Teaches other surgeons on primary gastric banding
- Teaches other surgeons on band-over-bypass
- Teaches gastric band courses
- Teaches ROSE courses
- Consultant for Allergan Company, LAP-BAND®
- Consultant for Ethicon Company, REALIZE ™
- Consultant for USGI Company, ROSE procedure
- Completed many advanced bariatric courses and bariatric CME programs
- Involved in multiple clinical trials for adult and adolescent obesity
- Nationally recognized on the "Today Show"
- Member American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- Member Council for Advances in Bariatrics
7798 University Court, Suite E, West Chester, OH, 45069
Phone: 513-939-BAND
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