Just to show how sick I am.... "buried penis" made me think of bedroom games with pirate hats and eye patches.
"Arrrgh, Matey! You've found One-Eyed Willy!"
It looks like this study had a very small sample size of only 5 patients. It does not compare the success of those patients against control patients who did not have the lap band placed after VSG. Therefore we can't know if the lap band is what enabled those patients to lose more weight or if it was another factor.