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Choosing Your
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You may wish to print this page to use as a guide during your search process for finding a conventional vasectomy doctor. It is not meant to be a subsitute for medical advice. Rather we hope it helps with issues to consider and be wieghed among your choices.
- Always ensure the surgeon is licensed to practice
in your jurisdiction (i.e. state or province).
- Ask how many vasectomies the physician performs -in career/ per week/ per year?
- Consider the technique - no-scalpel verses conventional.
- Ask if the technique performed is 'open-ended' or 'closed ended'?
- Ask about the physician's complication rates.
- Ask about the doctor's failure rate.
- Ask how many minutes it takes the physician to complete the procedure?
- Does the physician use fascial interposition? (See procedures)
- Ask how the tubes are blocked - Cautery of the vas or suture ligation of the
vas?
- Does the surgeon have a university appointment?
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