The REALIZE Personalized Banding Solution is more than a gastric band designed to help you lose weight. It's a solution that will help you to discover a new life. Imagine a new you with better health, more confidence, increased energy, and the ability to live the life you want to live. It's possible with your desire, determination and the REALIZE Personalized Banding Solution.

A Two-Part Approach

The REALIZE Personalized Banding Solution is made up of two key parts - the REALIZE Adjustable Gastric Band and Realize mySuccess.

REALIZE Adjustable Gastric Band

• Designed With You in Mind - The REALIZE Band was designed and developed with your comfort in mind. The band is a strong, flexible silicone structure made entirely of biocompatible materials. No band is safer or more effective for weight loss than the REALIZE Adjustable Gastric Band.
• Gradual Weight Loss - With the REALIZE Band, weight loss occurs at a natural and healthy rate - ranging from 1- 2 pounds per week on average.

REALIZE my SUCCESS

• With You Every Step of the Way -REALIZE mySUCCESS is a personalized and interactive tool designed to help enable your long-term success. You and your doctor can set goals and continually watch your progress together for up to 3 years so that your doctor can intervene precisely when needed to keep you on track.
• Manage Your Success - With REALIZE mySUCCESS, you will establish a tailored progress plan, to develop new healthy habits in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, and emotional well-being.

FACT SHEET: REALIZE ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BAND

Overview

• Surgically implantable device intended for use in weight reduction and improvement in obesity-related health conditions for patients with morbid obesity
• Soft, adjustable silicone band is wrapped around the stomach to limit food intake and makes patients feel full faster and longer
• Commercially available outside the U.S. as the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band (SAGB) since 1996; has been implanted in over 100,000 patients worldwide
• Distributed by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., global leader in minimally invasive and traditional surgical devices for bariatric surgery Clinical Trial Data

Clinical Trial Data

• In multi-center U.S. clinical trial REALIZE Band patients lost an average of 40% of their excess body weight within the first year and kept it off for at least three years
• Thirty-five percent of patients lost 50% or more of excess body weight and 10% of patients lost 75% or more of excess body weight
• One year after surgery, patients reported improvements in their quality of life, including better general health. Three years after surgery the following improved:o Vitality, mental health and social functioning ando Reduction in bodily pain and increased ability to complete daily and work activities
• After three years, patients experienced a 22% increase in good cholesterol (HDL) and a decrease in bad cholesterol (LDL), total cholesterol and triglycerides. In addition, patients experienced a statistically significant reduction in the key indicator for type 2 diabetes (HbA1c)
• Most common adverse events include nausea, vomiting, constipation and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)

How Procedure Is Performed

• Surgeons create small incisions in the abdomen to insert surgical instruments and a camera (laparoscope)
• Band is wrapped around stomach and tightened to create two chambers - a small upper stomach with a narrow opening to a lower stomach
• Once the band is in place, surgeons attach REALIZE Injection Port to the abdominal wall underneath the skin. Allows doctors to inject or remove saline to tighten or loosen band, using the REALIZE Port Applier. The surgery can be done in less than a minute, thereby decreasing time under anesthesia
• The upper stomach will eventually only hold about four ounces of food
• Adjustments made based on a patient's individual needs and can be performed in about 10 minutes from a doctor's office