Checking Out the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center

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.

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.

Perhaps what makes this center the premiere place begins with Dr. Gary Berger. No one has the education, training or medical background that Dr. Berger has in this specialized field. For more detailed information about his background, please check out the pages on drbergertubal.com. Add his background to the fact that tubal reversals are all he does and that he does them four times a day, five days a week, and you have experience that no one else can match.

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?

Not only has the first assistant surgical technologist been there long term, so has the Director of Anesthesia. She is Dr. Caryn Hertz and has worked with Dr. Berger since 1995. Before that she was at the Duke University Medical Center which just goes to show what type of qualities she has. Sure beats wondering who you would pull going into some hospital for the surgery.

It’s the nurses at the center that you will make most contact with. They will be the ones you ask your questions of and who will see you through all the ropes that having a surgery like this entails. You will find that they add posts to the center blog answering some of the many questions that they get. You could not be in better hands than those of these caring and respectful ladies.

Maybe what I should mention next is the message board that allows all the ladies who are thinking about having a tubal reversal talk to all the ones who have had the surgery. It forms the basis of a type of support group though it is not officially one. Not only that but you can get your questions answered there by the staff as well. Sometimes even Dr. Berger will drop in and answer questions. You will find the latest pregnancy announcements,too.

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.