Healthcare Professionals

Hear from physicians and staff just how safe and easy
the Essure procedure really is

Nancy Andrews, MD
With Essure, there is no cutting into the body, and we perform the procedure right here in my office with no general anesthesia. As a woman, I think it’s very important that women make choices for themselves. We finally have a technique for women that is comparable in simplicity, accessibility, and safety to vasectomy in men. Although the complications of laparoscopy are uncommon, when they occur they may be life threatening. The rare deaths associated with LTL were unacceptable in my mind

Larry Glazerman, MD
I feel that I can do more patients in the office than in the hospital because of the quicker turnover, less hassle, etc, that Essure allows. My patients have not resisted at all to having the Essure procedure done in the office. In fact, my patients actually prefer to have the procedure done in the office, and avoid the hospital altogether.

Christian Pope, MD

I tried the procedure and loved it. My patients are more than pleased with it, and I have had excellent results. The Essure procedure allows women to have a permanent birth control procedure performed quickly and effectively so they can get back to their usual activities.

Don Snyder, MD
My patients have rated their satisfaction with having Essure done in the office very highly. Unlike in the OR, there are no uncontrollable delays when performing Essure in my office, and since it takes only about a half hour of my time, I can be more productive before and after the procedure. My patients know that office-based sterilization is cutting edge, and they equate that to quality of care.

I have done very few post-partum tubal ligations since I started performing Essure in the office. Patients would much rather have increased safety and reduced pain avoidance of an incision (not to mention better efficacy) over the perceived convenience of “getting it over with while you are in the hospital.”

Felicia Tillman, MD
When I first considered having a permanent procedure for sterilization for myself, I considered doing a post-partum for tubal and Essure. Those were my two options really. And I chose Essure because it was very quick, there was no incision in it, and it was safer for me. I had my procedure in the late afternoon, in the office, maybe about 4 or 5 in the afternoon, I was on-call at seven-thirty the next day... I think women are more reassured when I tell them that I’ve had the procedure myself. And that I’ve had no side effects.

Claudia Ravins, MD
In my experience with women, women like to take charge of their family planning method, and I find that when I offer the options of a vasectomy, which does carry an incision along with it, or Essure procedure, the patient will usually pick the Essure procedure because it's incisionless. What makes this method different is that this is the first time that we've actually been cognizant enough to test women after a sterilization procedure to make sure that the tubes are, in fact, occluded, that they are no longer functional. So I really enjoy this added measure to the sterilization procedure that we had never really done before on any other procedure.

John Zavaleta, MD
The benefit of the procedure done in the office for the patient is that they know when they come into the office to have it done, they know it will be done shortly upon their arrival. It’s not as intimidating in the office. They’re familiar with our staff, the setting here in the office. Hospitals can sometime be intimidating and frightening, so the anxiety issue is not there when it’s done here in the office. Performed in the office, the patient doesn’t have that added expense of having to go to the hospital.

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