by Sandra Wilson

If you are one of the thousands of women who decide they wants a tubal ligation reversal, you can’t go wrong with the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. Hundreds of thousands of women are told that tying their tubes is the best means of birth control each year and they have this surgery. Later, sometimes just a short time later, they begin to regret what they have done. Don’t fret,though, as with the CHTRC, you will have the best opportunity to reverse that procedure.

Unlike any other place you can name, tubal reversals are the only thing done at the center. You won’t have to worry about something else, like in vitro fertilization, being pushed on you. As an IVF is a more expensive procedure that usually requires more tries, you will find this is the procedure that will be presented as your best option whether it truly is or not. Not so at CHTRC.

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.

The surgical technologists are the ones who keep the operating room all to rights. They ensure the operating room works correctly, that everything is sterile as it should be and that the room itself is meticulous. You wouldn’t recognize them if you saw them because you will not usually see them. They are in the operating room with masks on so you can’t see their faces. Besides you will be asleep in the operating room. The first assistant has been on Dr. Berger’s staff and worked with him for eighteen years. Does your surgeon have the same staff after eighteen years?

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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