The Full Sense™ Device is a temporary and reversible bariatric device, deployed and removed via endoscopy designed to induce satiety in a patient. It incorporates an esophageal component and a gastric disc connected by a support or strut (see picture at right). The Full Sense™ Device is unique as it is designed to induce satiety and fullness in the absence of food by placing pressure on the distal esophagus and cardia of the stomach. The present concept utilizes a new principle of implied continuous satiation. The Full Sense™ Device is designed to avoid interference with other body functions, such as operation of normal reflux mechanism, bile ducts, taking of medications, and the like. Unlike gastric banding and gastric bypass which require the presence of food in the stomach to cause satiety (resulting in intermittent or incomplete satiety), the Full Sense™ Device is designed to induce continuous satiety without the need for food to be present in the stomach or without the need for major surgery.
The Full Sense™ Device is not approved for sale in the United States, the European Union or elsewhere.
Full Sense™ is a trademark of BFKW, LLC
