Ultimate Lap Band Success: The Support Surgeon's Guide to Getting the Most from Your Gastric Band. This item is unavailable.Ultimate Lap Band Success: The Support Surgeon's Guide to Getting the Most from Your Gastric Band

In this interactive manual, Support Surgeon Dr. Duc Vuong offers essential strategies for Lap-Band patients striving to maximize their weight-loss, overall health, and long-term happiness. Dr. Vuong covers various topics that are crucial for new patients (and for those who have received little or no support) to find happiness with life after their surgery, and specific maintenance topics to teach patients how to keep the weight off once and for all.

Dr. Vuong is a renowned Lap-Band surgeon from the Houston area. He received his education at Rice University and Texas A&M Medical School, and completed surgical residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston. He is nationally recognized for his development of a successful support group program (available to patients in person and in DVD format) that keeps patients on track toward their long-term weight loss goals. He knows that preoperative education and postoperative support groups are the keys to becoming a happy and successful gastric band patient. His new book "Ultimate Lap-Band Success: The Support Surgeon's Guide to Getting More From Your Gastric Band" is now available. Dr. Vuong will be a part of a new TV series that will help patients obtain approval for weight loss surgery. The project is currently in its planning stages, but look for him on the small screen in 2010. Dr. Vuong also believes in charitable involvement, not only as a personal philosophy, but also as a necessity for long-term weight maintenance. His clinic and patients regularly participate in various fund-raiser walks and social community activities, like plantings and beach clean-ups that encourage physical activity. In addition, his clinic is also a sponsor of the Snowdrop Foundation. The Snowdrop Foundation is a nonprofit organization that raises money to provide scholarships for college tuition to survivors of childhood cancer. Dr. Vuong organizes the annual National Lap-Band Conference, a great two-day event that provides invaluable information for patients. During the Conference a free weight loss surgery is awarded to a patient who has demonstrated significant charitable volunteer activity. To find out more about this program, please visit www.MoreFromMyBand.com. Dr. Vuong currently lives near Houston with his long-time partner, Melissa, and their 3 (going on 13) year old daughter Kizzie.