| What qualities do you look for in choosing from | | | | surgery technique be into your body? How large are |
| among all the tubal reversal doctors? That's the | | | | the cuts he will make? |
| question some women want to ask when they begin | | | | Communication - Is it easy for you to communicate |
| their search for a tubal reversal doctor. Below we are | | | | with the doctor and his staff? Can you get your |
| going to address some of the qualities that made | | | | questions answered relatively quickly? Or does it take |
| women choose the doctor they chose to do their | | | | days and weeks to get a response to any of your |
| tubal ligation reversal. We will ask the questions you | | | | questions? What do the other patients of the doctor |
| should be asking yourself and your doctor. | | | | say about him/her? Can you even get into touch |
| Knowledge - The first thing you want to know about | | | | with them to see if they would do it all over again |
| is his knowledge of this type of surgery. What about | | | | with this doctor? Being the day of the Internet, does |
| his educational and training background? What schools | | | | this doctor have an on line forum where you can talk |
| did he or she attend? What training has he had? And | | | | to him, his staff and other patients and would-be |
| who was he trained under? You have doctors who | | | | patients? |
| have done their medical school, internship training and | | | | Cost - Even if the result of your tubal reversal is |
| normal residency and have never seen a tubal | | | | priceless, whether it's that new baby you want so |
| reversal done. Even doctors who specialized in | | | | much or the relief from your post tubal ligation |
| reproductive endocrinology would be very lucky to | | | | syndrome symptoms, cost is still a factor. Unless you |
| see a tubal reversal during their training. Since most | | | | are very fortunate with your health insurance for |
| insurance doesn't cover it, many hospitals don't | | | | tubal reversal, chance are you will have to pay for |
| perform the surgery very often and this is where | | | | the surgery yourself one way or another. Prices vary |
| doctors do their residencies. So, has yours ever been | | | | widely for this surgery from a few thousand up to |
| trained in it? Has he even seen one done during his | | | | and beyond $20,000. So how much will your surgeon |
| training? | | | | cost you? |
| Experience - Next we need to ask about his | | | | Statistics - Does your doctor keep statistics that |
| experience. How often has your potential doctor | | | | prove how well he does his job? Does he let you |
| performed this surgery? Is it something she has done | | | | know what your chances are given your tube length, |
| like maybe twelve times in the last five years? Or do | | | | age, and type of tubal ligation done? Do you know |
| you want a doctor who does the surgery every | | | | his tubal reversal success rates? Do you know the |
| week day for years and has seen just about | | | | rates of pregnancy after a tubal reversal from this |
| anything that can come up? Who do you think is | | | | doctor? Are these published and readily available to |
| going to be better at it and have the most | | | | you? Does your doctor do follow-ups to collect |
| experience to deal with your particular situation? | | | | information at six months and at one year intervals |
| Techniques - What techniques does your doctor use | | | | after your tubal reversal surgery? |
| to insure to the best of his ability that your tubes will | | | | These points above are a good start on the things |
| be open once the surgery is done? Does he just | | | | you need to think about when looking for your |
| "eyeball" the alignment of the tubes and then do a | | | | surgeon. They are all part of what goes to make up |
| dye test afterward to see if they are open? Or does | | | | a good and positive experience for you. There are |
| he use a stint to line up the tubes to be sure they | | | | more factors to be considered as well, but begin with |
| are open even before he begins suturing the tubes | | | | these. Find the one surgeon, from all the tubal |
| together? You need to think if you want to take a | | | | reversal doctors, who will best fit all these areas of |
| chance on paying for the surgery and not even being | | | | concern and you will have a better experience. |
| sure the job gets done correctly. How invasive will his | | | | |