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Every year in the U.S. alone hundreds of thousands of women are persuaded to undergo tubal ligation surgery. The number varies depending upon the source but of those women who do this, many will decide they want to reverse the surgery. The premiere place to do so is the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

Among the many other positives about the center, one of the best is the level of expertise brought on by the fact that tubal reversals are all that is done there. You won’t find in vitro fertilization. You won’t find vasectomy reversals being done or any other kind of surgery. What is done is only tubal ligation reversals. This means the staff is second to none in regards to experience with the procedure. Their time is not taken up with other types of procedures. No one can match their expertise.

The head surgeon of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is Dr. Gary Berger. You will not find anyone else that has the background, education and training that he has within the tubal reversal field. As Dr. Berger performs the tubal reversal microsurgery four times a day, five days a week, no one can begin to match the number of reversed tubes he has repaired. He even trained under Dr. Winston. Check out his background on drbergertubal.com yourself and see no one can match it.

Keeping the operating room and equipment operating at peak efficiency are the surgical technicians. They make sure everything works right and all is meticulous and sterile as it should be. These surgical technicians have been with the CHTRC for years. In fact, Dr. Berger’s first assistant has been with him for 18 years. That ought to give you a good feeling that she knows what she is doing and has seen it all. That is the caliber of the surgical staff.

Next we have Dr. Caryn Hertz who is the Director of Anesthesia at CHTRC. She, too, has been there for a long time. In her case, she has worked with Dr. Berger since 1995. This collaboration began after she left Duke University Medical Center to join Dr. Berger. I would guess the name of Duke alone should tell you the quality of the professional she is. Match that with her long term work with Dr. Berger, meaning she, too, knows this surgery inside and out and you have a winning team.

Now we turn to the nursing staff. Many of them have been with the center long term as have the Director of Anesthesia and the surgical technicians. You will likely have the most contact with these ladies. Not only are they there to answer your questions, you will find they genuinely care about their patients. This is apparent if you should go to the message board at forums.tubal-reversal.net with any questions. They also write posts now and then for the blog at the center’s website. This allows you a chance to see inside the center.

I’ve talked a bit about the staff. Another thing that should be considered is the message board mentioned in the last paragraph. How many other doctors or clinics allow you, even provide you with, a means of contacting other patients? You can ask questions there and find the support you need for whatever may concern you regarding having a reversal done.

Another thing about CHTRC is that they will follow up with you for up to one year. They will make phone contact to talk to you and see how things are going. They do this at six months as well and a few other times more closely to the actual surgery as well. Using what they learn from you, and all the other women, they are able to provide statistics about the success rates to other women who are looking at the surgery as well. But forget about those statistics. How many surgeons do you know that has someone following up with their patients up to a year after surgery just to know what is going on? That’s just another mark of the care and professionalism you will encounter at the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

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