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1. A method for treating obesity in a patient having a stomach with a food cavity by implanting a volume filling device that, when implanted in a patient, reduces said food cavity in size by a volume substantially exceeding the volume of said volume filling device, the method comprising the steps of:
inserting a needle or a tube-like instrument into the abdomen of the patient's body; using said needle or tube-like instrument to fill the patient's abdomen with gas; placing at least two laparoscopic trocars in the patient's body; inserting a camera through one of said at least two laparoscopic trocars into the patient's abdomen, inserting at least one dissecting tool through one of said at least two laparoscopic trocars; dissecting an area of the stomach; introducing the volume filling device into the abdominal cavity; placing the volume filling device on the outside of the stomach wall; invaginating the volume filling device in the stomach wall by providing stomach to stomach sutures or staples to the stomach wall from the outside of the stomach wall, thereby positioning the volume filling device so that the volume of the food cavity is reduced in size by a volume substantially exceeding the volume of the volume filling device, and implanting a non-invasive regulation apparatus for non-invasively regulating the volume filling device from the outside of the patient's body. |
