One specific operation empowers people to lose weight and have their best lives. That's the promise of "Joe," otherwise known as A. Joseph Cribbins III, MD, who is a highly-skilled, esteemed and board-certified bariatric surgeon specializing in ultra-minimally invasive surgery for weight loss using the da Vinci Xi surgical system. He applies more than two decades of medical experience, and has provided this state-of-the-art, sought-after surgery since 2012.
Just as Leonardo da Vinci pioneered so many beneficial inventions, the da Vinci Surgical System broke new ground in 2000 as the first Food and Drug Administration-approved robotic-assisted surgery system, which provides surgeons with 3DHD vision.
As an operation performed to make metabolic changes to help with weight loss, bariatric surgery results also address physical, emotional, hormonal and sexual aspects essential to quality of life, explains Dr. Joe, a surgery specialist at Texas Center For Surgery.
He says 32% of Texans are overweight but only 1% of people who qualify for bariatric surgery have it, and many don't know that insurance often covers it or that they don't need a doctor referral to surgeons. "Every day, we help people who struggle with weight loss to reach healthy weights. It is time to consider surgery when someone's tried every diet and feels trapped in weight gain cycles," says Dr. Joe. "You're not alone in the struggle; overweight people become resistant to maintaining weight loss achieved by typical methods such as diet, exercise, and expensive commercial weight loss programs, due to Leptin resistance."
Being overweight contributes to many health problems, increases medical expenses, and lowers quality of life. However, Dr. Joe indicates The National Institutes of Health officials recognize bariatric surgery as the most effective treatment to combat obesity and maintain long-term weight loss.
"Say goodbye to Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, risk for stroke or cancer, sleep apnea and other diseases preventable by weight loss. You can be more mobile and active, get out there with your kids, travel, shop at any store, and enjoy all the benefits of a healthy weight," he adds.
People ready to make a change and commit to a new healthy life, and have failed at other weight loss attempts, are prime candidates for this surgery. Dr. Joe says there's no age limit for the procedure, with his typical patients between the ages of 18 to 75 years old.
Body mass index is a height-to-weight ratio method used in diagnosing a healthy weight versus being overweight, and is a factor when determining whether bariatric surgery is appropriate for patients. A diagnosis of a BMI of 30 and higher qualifies for bariatrics surgery.
Dr. Joe's patients typically spend one night in the hospital. He says patients usually take one to two weeks off work, depending on how physically demanding their job is.
"Patients lose as much as 80% of excess weight within six months after bariatric surgery, and up to 90% of excess weight as early as 12 months after bariatric surgery," Dr. Joe assures. "Life after bariatric surgery improves quickly. Within days to weeks of surgery, people come off most, if not all, of the medications they were taking prior to surgery. Weight loss surgery is a medical treatment for diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and many orthopedic issues."
Patients rave about the center's appointments being with actual doctors, and Marty, the office's adorable Corgi dog, working on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Dr. Cribbins has been the medical director of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Committee program at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano for 16 consecutive years. He served as the vice-chairman of surgery and sat on medical committees. He has been recognized among D Magazine’s Best Doctors for bariatric surgery for 12 years, named a Best Doctor in Collin County since 2011, and a 2020 Texas Monthly Super Doctor.
"Technology and innovations in bariatric surgery have drastically improved. Modern bariatric surgery is nothing like it was 10-20 years ago. We are in a medical revolution using the da Vinci Xi, and incredible patient results say it all," assures Dr. Joe.
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