With over 50 years of combined experience and 26,000 successful bariatric surgeries performed, Obesity Control Center, located in Tijuana, Mexico, is considered a world leader in weight-loss surgery. With a team of international weight loss surgeons, we offer globalized bariatric healthcare so you get the best of the best from around the world.
Successful Surgeries
Years of Combined Experience
Non Critical Complications
Pounds Lost Forever!
We are an innovative, industry-leading metabolic weight loss center of excellence. Fully accredited by the Joint Commission International for the third time, we are able to safely and effectively help people from around the world achieve their weight loss goals using lifestyle changes and the most modern and safe techniques in bariatric surgery.
Fully Accredited and follow the highest US medical safety standards. Lowest complication and infection rate with a 20+ year track record of successful surgeries.
Pioneered multiple techniques used around the world, such as the IGS Improved Gastric Sleeve®. Co-developed the gastric balloon & The OCC Double Buttress Technique™. Performed over 25,000 successful procedures.
OCC guides you through five years of post-op care through online support groups and US-based on-call patient coordinators. You become part of the #OCCFamily for life.
Includes service to and from the airport, guidance over the border, and five-star accommodations. OCC is your partner from initial consultation to five years of post-surgery follow-up.
Work with patients to get them safely prepared from consultation to surgery in as fast as 4-6 weeks.
Obesity Control Center is considered one of the best facilities for weight loss surgery — not only in Mexico, but the world. Our award-winning team of bariatric surgeons has a combined 50 years of experience with over 26,000 successful bariatric surgery procedures to our credit. We were one of the first centers to perform bariatric surgery anywhere in the world. Because Obesity Control Center holds itself to the most rigorous medical and safety standards found anywhere in the world, patients from Mexico, the United States, and every corner of the globe seek care from our weight loss surgeons. We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission International and have also been awarded their Golden Seal — a distinction recognizing the highest standards of safety: a complication rate of less than 1%.
Two master bariatric surgeons — Dr. Ariel Ortiz® and Dr. Arturo Martinez — care for every patient. That means that Obesity Control Center patients are always in the hands of a world-renowned and highly trained surgeon. Our surgeons are pioneers in the field, with accomplishments that include being the first to provide teenage obesity treatments and creating the IGS Improve Gastric Sleeve®, the Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve®, and the Double-Buttress Sewing Technique. At our state-of-the-art facility, our surgeons offer several types of weight loss surgery, including gastric bypass, gastric sleeve, lap band surgery, and gastric plication. During the consultation phase, the weight loss surgeons will evaluate each patient individually to create a customized surgical plan that considers the patient’s goals, concerns, preferences, and medical history. Dr. Ortiz and Dr. Martinez received their advanced education in bariatric surgery at elite educational institutions and have been invited to instruct the next generation of weight loss surgeons as professors and guest lecturers.
In addition to changing their patients’ lives with bariatric surgery, they are innovators in their field who have developed safer and more efficient ways to perform weight loss surgery. The entirety of Obesity Control Center’s staff in Tijuana is just as beloved by patients. We offer five-star accommodations to our medical tourism patients, with round-the-clock concierge service. It is our pleasure to ensure that you travel to and from our weight loss center safely and comfortably.
Another reason patients choose Obesity Control Center is that our surgeons and staff care about our patients’ well-being well after they return home from bariatric surgery. We commit to providing five years of postoperative care, including a personalized nutrition and exercise plan, so that patients meet their goals and feel adequately supported during their weight loss journey.
Although the cost of weight loss surgery in Tijuana, Mexico differs depending on the procedure you select, each is affordable, especially compared to prices charged by American hospitals. Our relatively low-cost pricing for the gastric band (Lap-Band), gastric plication, gastric sleeve (gastrectomy), and gastric bypass surgeries allow you to get the first-class treatment you desire within your budget. To discuss your specific situation in confidence, please call us toll-free or complete our contact form.
Length of stay:
Outpatient Band Surgery: 1 day at the hospital, 1 night at the hotel
Gastric Sleeve Surgery: 1 night at the hospital, 3 nights hotel
Gastric Plication Surgery: 1-night hospital, 2 nights hotel
Revision Surgery varies by procedure: Discuss with the coordinator
The cost of OCC weight loss surgeries includes the following:
Financing Options
We also provide our patients with several options to finance their weight loss and other surgeries through third parties. These financing companies offer you an affordable way to have your procedure done immediately with monthly payments that fit your budget. Please feel free to contact us regarding the options that are summarized below. You may call us toll-free from the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, or Canada. From outside the U.S., please call 1-415-738-8100.
Please note: OCC quotes cash prices, In addition to any fee that the finance company charges you directly, check with the lender to see if there is a funding fee charged to OCC if so, the cash price to OCC would not apply, and you would be charged a higher fee, typically around 5%. If you choose financing that pays you directly, and no extra costs are incurred by OCC, we may be able to honor the cash pricing.
All patients are required to pay a $500 deposit to OCC to hold their surgery date within 24 hours of scheduling.
