Lap Band Surgery One treatment for weight loss, Lap Band surgery is specifically created to aid clinically obese people lose significant weight. Usually to be a candidate for Lap Band surgery, a possible patient should be extremely overweight indicating that weight loss is urgently needed and that more conventional methods of weight reduction have been exhausted. Patients treated with the Lap Band procedure will need to be screened to ensure they qualify and have a series of follow up appointments. Talk to the health care providers listed below for an appointment for Lap Band surgery in Cranston, Rhode Island.