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About REALIZE™ Band
Designed to help you achieve and maintain a healthier weight.

Your commitment to a healthy lifestyle after surgery is critical to your success, and we’ll be there for you every step of the way.

Only the REALIZE Personalized Banding Solution has a Web-based clinical support tool designed to help you achieve and maintain weight loss with the REALIZE Adjustable Gastric Band.

Support starts before your surgery to help you develop healthy habits and keep you connected to your bariatric team, especially for the critical first three years—so you're not on your own.

It's shown to be effective, too. REALIZE Band patients who consistently use REALIZE mySUCCESS® lose significantly more weight in the first year after surgery.*

The REALIZE™ Band

The REALIZE Band provides a safe and effective way to lose weight gradually—without cutting or stapling your stomach. The band limits the amount of food you can eat at one time. As a result, you feel full sooner and stay full longer. That makes it easier to adopt—and stick with—healthy eating and lifestyle habits.

Benefits

  • No band is safer or more effective for weight loss,33 based on results from a clinical trial.
  • Implanted using laparoscopic surgery, which involves small incisions. That means a shorter hospital stay, faster recovery, smaller scars, and less pain than open surgical procedures.
  • Proven results: Patients in a 3-year clinical trial lost a mean of 40 percent of their excess weight at one year and 43% at three years.33
  • Additional results: In the same clinical trial, the REALIZE Band helped resolve 48.7% of type 2 diabetes, 78.3% of high cholesterol, and 94.6% of sleep apnea problems.33

Learn more about the benefits of the REALIZE Band and how it works.

Find out how the REALIZE Band compares with LAP-BAND®.

Comprehensive support program

REALIZE mySUCCESS® is a Web-based clinical support tool that starts before your band surgery and keeps you connected to your bariatric team, especially for the first three critical years—so you're not on your own.

With REALIZE mySUCCESS®, you and your surgeon can create a tailored plan to help you develop new healthy habits in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, and emotional well-being.

Learn more about our clinical support tool.

Get the Facts at an Information Seminar

If you're considering the REALIZE Band, we encourage you to attend a free information seminar hosted by a bariatric surgery clinic that offers the REALIZE Band. You'll learn about surgical options, meet bariatric team members who will support you before and long after your surgery. You may also hear from patients who have had weight loss surgery. There's no pressure to make a commitment-and no better way to get the answers you're looking for. Of course, family and friends are welcome, too.


Use our seminar finder to locate a seminar in your area, and register to ensure that you have a seat because seminars often fill up.


Want to talk it over? We're ready to help. Call us at 1-866-300-1818 if you have questions or concerns or want help finding a seminar near you.
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*Patients who frequently use REALIZE mySUCCESS® lose significantly more weight. Based on 12 months of patient-reported data from REALIZE Band patients using REALIZE mySUCCESS®. Frequent users were in the top third of patients based on frequency of entering a weight into REALIZE mySUCCESS®. Source: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, data on file.32

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