Lap Band Los Angeles – Lap Band Surgery in Los Angeles
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are
losing weight & regaining their health & happiness with the
Lap-Band® and Gastric Balloon !
Safe, effective and long-term weight loss procedures are now available for the treatment of obesity. The Lap-Band System®, a silicone gastric band and ORBERA™ Gastric Balloon, a silicone balloon offer unique benefits compared to other weight loss surgeries or procedures. Gastric Banding is a minimally invasive approach that does not require cutting or stapling of the stomach or gastrointestinal re-routing. Similarily, gastric balloon requires no surgery. The LapBand® can be adjusted to fit your needs in just one visit to your doctor. It’s that simple.
Discover the advantages of a safe weight loss surgery and start a new life,
a new You. The LapBand® and Gastric Balloon are the safest and
most effective weight loss gastric procedures available today!

Lap Band Los Angeles
Dr. Davtyan has offices in many cities within Los Angeles County. Please visit our contact page to find the nearest location and to make an appointment for your free Lap-Band surgery consultation in Los Angeles.
What Makes Our Los Angeles Lap-Band Team Unique?
Our success is based on our partnership with our patients to create the winning team. Because of Dr. Davtyan's personal experience with obesity and overcoming it with the help of the LAP-BAND, we have a profound sense of compassion and empathy for our patients. We also identify with their dreams and strive together to achieve most optimal results by utilizing most sophisticated technology and our highest level of expertise.
Dr. Davtyan is Board Certified by the American Board of Bariatric Medicine, thus he firmly believes in comprehensive management of excess weight. Consequently, we always have a team approach collaborating with numerous experts in related sub-specialties to ensure complete and thorough pre-operative evaluations and safe and successful post-operative recovery. To ensure best outcomes, we offer our patients easy and frequent access to our numerous clinics for close and attentive follow-ups.
- Exceptional experience since 2001 with hundreds of successful procedures exclusively performed by Dr. Davtyan.
- Dr. Davtyan is the first surgeon in California to perform the Lap-Band procedure at an outpatient surgery center.
- We also offer Sleeve Gastrectomy and Single-incision Laparoscopic surgery (SILS).
- Gastric Banding is approved by most PPO and POS insurances as well as self-insured organizations, and trade union insurances.
- Some of the PPO/POS insurances that cover gastric banding include Blue Cross, United Healthcare, Great West, Aetna, Guardian and many others. These cases are performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and/or approved surgery centers.
- We also perform the LapBand® procedure for select Medicare patients based on their health and risk/benefit ratio at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
- To achieve best outcomes we assist our patients by offering them complimentary consultation and follow-ups, comprehensive weight loss programs such as diet regimens, recipes, medications, online support system, nutritional counseling, exercise programs, new lifestyle coaching, amongst other benefits.
- To help our patients reach their weight loss goals we provide attractive financing with no money down and low monthly payments.
- For patients who have reached their weight loss goals we also provide cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, abdominoplasty ("tummy-tuck"), brachioplasty ("arm-tuck"), thighplasty ("thigh lift") and total body lift based on the patients needs.

David G. Davtyan M.D., FACS, FICS
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Bariatric Medicine
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