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Before arranging a no-scalpel vasectomy, the following points (below) are issues to consider when choosing your no-scalpel vasectomy doctor. This is a tool meant to help you begin the search process. It is not meant to be a subsitute for medical advice. You may wish to print this page for use as a guide.
- 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? (see blocking the tubes)
- Does the surgeon have a university appointment?
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