Redo Vasectomy Reversals

Redo Vasectomy Reversals

“I wish we had come here the first time” is what we hear almost weekly after we perform a redo vasectomy reversal.

Men from all over the US and internationally come to see Dr. Marks and Dr. Burrows frequently for their redo and even redo, redo reversals after their first attempt elsewhere fails.
We recently received a photo of a doctor’s two daughters. Several years ago this Maryland physician had a failed first reversal locally, then traveled to Chicago for his second unsuccessful reversal to a doctor he thoughts was an expert. That failed and then after doing his research and deciding that his best chance for a successful eversal was here at ICVR. The surgery went great with amazing results, and now he has two beautiful daughters.
We have a proven very high success with redo reversals. In fact, the doctors of ICVR presented our experience with hundreds of redo reversals at an international fertility meeting where we showed that your chances for high success here is the same here as if you never had a failed reversal before.

We have decades of experience with more than 5000 patients from every state in the US and more than 77 countries around the world. And that each doctor limits his practice to one reversal a day means you get our full and undivided attention to detail with no pressure to rush to get to additional reversals.

Why do we have such high success when others fail?
We assume two opposites when we perform a redo reversal. First, that the procedure was done correctly and that you scarred up at the connection. The other assumption is that the doctor did not do a technically precise multi-layer closure which is why you scarred and now needs to be redone.

Here’s what we do.
We treat you before, during and after to block excessive scarring. We monitor your semen analysis counts frequently, and we stay on top of your results, working with you closely for many months to keep your repair open and get your counts up and stay up at levels good enough for conception!

Many patients ask if we do anything technically differently during the redo reversal. The truth is we do the exact same microsurgical multi-layer reversal whether this is your first time or if it is a redo redo reversal. But because we have done many thousands, we have achieved the highest level of expertise. After all, experience matters!

To often we can see from the operative note (it is very helpful if you can have this sent to us) or from findings in surgery that the self-proclaimed “expert” reversal doctor actually did a reversal that we believe falls well below the standard-of-care (a nice way of saying sloppy or outdated surgery).

Bottom line: what we see confirms that many doctors who perform reversals really don’t know what they are doing. Some are not even urologists, while others perform a quickie 45 minute procedure using simple magnifying glasses. Instead, they should be performing a meticulous multi-layer microsurgical reversal using a high-powered surgical microscope over 2 and ½ hours on average. Many do not use the best microsutures or even the correct instruments.

And if they really cared about your results, you would think they would be regulars at our specialty fertility society meetings. Yet I can honestly say that in all my years attending and speaking at these meetings, I have never met most of these doctors that want you to believe they are experts. What does that say about their desire to provide the best care or know the newest advances? This tells me that they think that they already know everything – a bad sign for any doctor.

If you have had a failed reversal or just have questions, then contact us at 888-722-2929 or info@dadsagain.com and let us talk about what was done, and what we can do to help you achieve your dreams of having children.