I think if you do your research (and that's whether you have surgery in the US or elsewhere...) and choose an experienced doctor who is well known it doesn't matter what country you have surgery in. In the US there are what are known as Centers of Excellence and those doctors have to meet certain stringent requirements to be called that. They may have something comparable in Mexico but I don't know. My advice is to count ALL the costs, not just the cost of surgery. The LAP-BAND® is kind of high maintenance - you don't just leave the operating room and never see a doctor again. The most important requirement after surgery is fills, and in the months after surgery you may need 4, 5, or even 6 to get where you need to be. My surgeon, who is 1/2 hour from my home, gives us free fills for a year after surgery and we are allowed to get more added ten days later if we find we don't have enough restriction. If I had surgery in Mexico I don't know how I would get the number of fills I needed to get to my sweet spot. There may be great ways to do it but my point is to do your research and take the fill situation into consideration. (If you have to pay for fills in the US rather than going to Mexico each time you needed one, realize they can be over $200 each and I've had 6) Also, consider what would happen if you had complications of any kind once you returned home after surgery - many US doctors are reluctant to take care of problems of another surgeon.
There are also occasionally problems after a fill, so if you got your fills in Mexico and got home and had a problem (like being overfilled and not able to swallow even water, which does happen) where would you go for help? You need to know the answers to all these questions even if you have surgery in the US.
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