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Whatever your reasons for wishing to have surgery reversing tied tubes may be, you will begin your search for doctors who will do this. But where do you begin your search?
It is likely you will begin your search for knowledge about who and what is available through using the Internet. Indeed, that is where you found this article, is it not? The Internet can be a useful tool in making your decisions for reversing your tied tubes.
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.
Another point about your local doctor to be aware of is his experience level. Since he does not specialize in this procedure but does many other things as well, you should know just how many tubal reversals he performs each year. Is it one, two, ten procedures a year? Wouldn’t it be better to go under the knife with a surgeon who has done it for years and does it every week day? That’s what you get when you select a surgeon who specializes in this surgery.
Another thing you get with the specialist is a trained team who also does the surgery every day. They know what to expect in a tubal anastomosis. It becomes like a well choreographed dance within the operating room. Compare that to what type of team you will get from a doctor who does this a couple times a year. The team members may be professionals, but have they even seen a tubal reversal done before much less participated in one?
Why not just save yourself a lot of trouble and select a surgeon who specializes in tubal reversal surgery? Do your research on Dr. Gary Berger and Dr. Monteith of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center in North Carolina. You will get the years of experience and knowledge that has made Dr. Berger the world’s leading authority on tubal reversals. In the long run and the short run, you will have made the best choice choosing the CHTRC as the place for reversing tied tubes.
