Best Bariatric Surgeon Tucson Near Me

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Greetings! At Tucson Bariatric, you will find a friendly team of medical professionals that are truly dedicated to your long-term weight loss success. If you are interested in Bariatric surgery, we will help you to get insurance authorization. If not, we won’t sell you an operation! We believe in a practical, individualized weight loss program that does NOT prescribe any special diets, injections, supplements, or appetite suppressants. If the treatment is temporary, then so is the weight loss!

Dr. Monash has established three separate Accredited Bariatric Surgery programs here in Tucson, and has performed over 5,500 Bariatric operations. In addition, he has helped over 8,000 patients with non-operative weight loss. He strives to connect with each patient on a personal level, and has developed a program that is truly sustainable. His motto has always been, “Live happier, live healthier, live longer.” He is taking a break from surgery to focus more on family and personal aspirations, and works with other Bariatric surgeons here in Tucson and Phoenix that are actively operating. This provides our patients the time and opportunity to connect with Dr. Monash, and share his knowledge and expertise in a very unique way. He has confidence that nearly all of his patients will lose the weight intended, and his focus will be on helping you to keep it off!

Let us help you to live healthier, live happier, and live longer with our surgical weight loss program.

I am just so much more healthy since I had the procedure

4worldlovers: A newer, non-surgical procedure that promotes permanent weight loss. ESG is performed without incisions – the surgeon uses a small camera that passes down your throat, through your esophagus and into your stomach.

This procedure involves stapling an upper portion of the stomach to create a smaller pouch. The surgeon connects the pouch to the lower intestine, bypassing the majority of the small intestine where calories and nutrients are absorbed. Additionally, changes in hormones work to promote fullness.

This procedure involves removing the lateral aspect (or side) of the stomach. It works by limiting or restricting the amount of food that you can eat. In addition, it is believed that by removing the part of the stomach that produces the Grehlin hormone, that patients lose their appetite.

The Duodenal Switch procedure provides both weight loss and long-term resolution of comorbid conditions. This procedure is a combined surgery that makes your stomach smaller and bypasses part of your small intestine for the best-reported, long-term percentage of weight loss.

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Dr. Guillermo Higa is a board certified general surgeon and fellowship trained bariatric surgeon. He offers surgical and non-surgical intervention for common conditions including obesity, gallbladder issues, hernias and poorly controlled GERD. With over 20 years of surgical experience and thousands of general and bariatric surgeries performed, Dr. Higa offers the knowledge and experience to make your surgical procedure as safe and effective as possible.


Bariatric surgery (gastric sleeve, gastric bypass and more) is currently the only long-term effective treatment for patients suffering from obesity. And while surgery may seem like a drastic option, the medical issues and lifestyle limitations caused by obesity create both tangible and intangible problems. Indeed, the most common feedback we hear from our postop patients is that they wish they had done it sooner. And while they may look better, the true victory is that many of the diseases associated with morbid obesity have improved or resolved entirely and they can perform activities that would once have been considered impossible.

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