If you’ve struggled to lose weight and have been unsuccessful, you might want to talk with your physician about weight loss surgery. Our Weight Loss Surgery Program at St. Mary’s Hospital of Superior offers two options: Roux-en Y gastric bypass surgery and Lap-Band surgery.

Patients can begin to have real success in losing weight and keeping it off after having these surgeries, and they also experience improvement in a range of weight-related medical conditions. The surgery can be done on an outpatient basis.

Gastric Bypass is the most common weight-loss surgery technique in the United States. The surgeon reduces the size of your stomach by stapling and dividing it.

In Lap-Band surgery, the surgeon fastens a hollow, inflatable silicone band around the upper stomach. The band is placed using instruments inserted in the body through small incisions. The band creates a new semi-separate stomach pouch that allows a slow passage of food through to the rest of your stomach.

Weight-loss surgery at is an extension of the SMDC Medical Center-Duluth Clinic Weight Management Program.