Sunday, October 26, 2008

Reversing Tied Tubes - Which Surgeon Should You Choose?

By Sandra Wilson

Quite often after undergoing a tubal ligation, a woman desires to have her tubes untied. Thus begins the search for doctors who specialize in reversing tied tubes.

If you are not very sure of what information you need or how to make your choice, you will most likely turn to the Internet to research having a tubal reversal. In fact, that may be how you found this article.

Regardless of whether or not you did begin your search on the Internet, it seems most women want to find a tubal reversal doctor in their own area of the world or country. Since you will probably find a surgeon or two (or more) who say they will perform the operation, I feel compelled to point out that you may not be getting off to a good start by not looking for a surgeon who specializes in tubal ligation reversals.

Whoever you locate in your area, unless you are very lucky, will most likely not be someone who specializes in doing tubal reversals. While they will do the operation for you, it is just one of many other things they do. If you look into a fertility clinic where IVF is available, as it is at most fertility clinics, you will be urged to have IVF instead of the operation in the vast majority of cases. With the operation, there is a one time cost and then you try as much as you want to create a new life. With IVF, on average, you will have to try and pay for an average of 3 cycles.

Even if you do not take that into account, just how much experience will your local doctor have in actually doing the procedure. Once a year? Maybe ten times a year? Wouldn't you rather have a surgeon who specialized in this field of reproductive endocrinology and performed this surgery every week day? Wouldn't you rather have one with years of experience?

And wouldn't you prefer to have a doctor who has a permanent team who works every surgery with him and knows what to expect when doing a tubal anastomosis? These people are also trained by this doctor and know how to handle anything that comes up. Isn't that better than a doctor who does the surgery once or twice a year who gets a different team every time? Who knows if they have even been involved in such surgery before?

To find the tubal reversal doctor who will provide you with the best experience, start your search with Dr. Berger from Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. Yes, he is located in North Carolina which could mean paying for a trip to have the surgery done by him. Women come from around the world to have him perform this surgery as they know that his experience and background make him the best qualified physician for reversing tied tubes. Do the research yourself and you will see this is fact. - 15438

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