How Can You Reverse a Vasectomy?
With a vasectomy, the vas is isolated and divided. The ends will be burned, clipped, or tied, but sometimes more than one of these techniques will be used. The damaged area must be removed from the tissue with a normal blood supply. After this is done, and the ends are placed in proximetry, utilizing a special instrument to hold them in place, the ends are then sewn together using a very small suture. This can only be done accurately with significant training and a high powered surgical microscope. The procedure can be performed under local or general anesthesia. Local is much safer and allows for the use of considerably more magnification. We employ between 14-16X magnification for our procedures, which would be virtually impossible with the motion created by ventilation under a general anesthetic.
