Vasectomy reversal is all we do
The decision felt final.
It wasn’t.
Almost 8,000 men have flown to a small building in Tucson to have that decision undone. Up to 99.5% of vasectomy-to-vasectomy connections succeed. The surgeon who wrote the textbook is the one holding the instruments, and the one who calls you back.
The hardest part
The hardest part is not the surgery.
Years ago you signed a form. It took twenty minutes and cost less than a set of tires. Nobody in that room said the word forever. But that is the word you heard.
Then life did what life does. A second marriage. A love you were not expecting at fifty. A child who did not come home from the hospital. A Tuesday morning where you looked across the kitchen at her and knew, the way you know weather.
So now it is Sunday and you are at that same kitchen table with a laptop, reading your ninth website, and every one of them uses the same nine words. One clinic wants $800. Another wants $28,000. They both call it the same operation. Nobody will tell you what the cheaper doctor gives up in order to be cheaper.
You are not afraid of the surgery. You have had worse. You are afraid of hoping out loud, in front of her, and being wrong.
A man should not have to spend the rest of his life inside a decision he made in a life he no longer recognizes.
The guide
We wrote the book on reversals. Then we kept the door open.
Dr. Sheldon Marks wrote Vasectomy Reversal: Manual of Vasovasostomy and Vasoepididymostomy, published by Springer, now also published in Chinese with Cornell and Shanghai. He invented the forceps that carry his name. He teaches the courses where other urologists learn this operation.
Dr. Peter Burrows trained at Ohio State and Cleveland Clinic, then USC, then took a microsurgery fellowship at Baylor. He has been doing this for thirty years.
Vasectomy reversals are all we do. Each doctor does one reversal a day, and does it himself, start to finish. There are no residents. There is nobody learning on you. The connection is built in three to four layers under a high-power Leica microscope, with 10-0 microsutures, thread finer than a human eyelash.
The honest question was never what does this cost. The honest question is what does the cheaper doctor give up in order to be cheaper?
The plan
From your first call to your first child.
01 Ask for the call.
Fill out the form. A doctor calls you back, not a coordinator reading a script. Put your wife on speaker. There is no charge and nothing to buy on that call.
02 Give us one day in Tucson.
Your surgeon performs one reversal that day. Yours. You fly in, and most men fly home within forty-eight hours.
03 Go home and begin.
Six months of aftercare comes with you. Then, one ordinary evening some months from now, she hands you a small plastic stick and neither of you says anything for a while.
Success
It is not a vasectomy reversal. It is the continuation of your family.
A man came to us forty-two years after his vasectomy. Forty-two. He had grandchildren from his first marriage before he had a daughter from his second. She is nineteen now. She has a daughter of her own.
Nobody is going to hand you a certificate. What happens instead is that you get old sitting on a floor. You are the oldest father at the kindergarten door and you find, to your surprise, that you do not care even slightly. And your wife watches you become a father a second time, in the marriage she thought she was too late for.
You are a dad again.
Our results, your babies
The men who sat where you are sitting.
I’m writing this review after putting my 7 month old post-reversal-baby to bed… all thanks to Dads Again! Five months after the procedure I became pregnant, and we are so thankful for our third child.F Faith V.★★★★★ Google review · flew from Malaysia
We had been told by other services that his 19-year vasectomy was essentially irreversible… Dr. Marks was confident that we would be parents. Seven months after the procedure, I was pregnant.
My husband had to fly out from NH alone for his second reversal. Nurse Harold called me multiple times through the surgery, and Dr. Marks called me multiple times after to explain what was found.
It was my 3rd reversal, from 3 different surgeons. This was a redo from a surgery in 2019 that failed. I cannot stress enough how important it is to choose the right surgeon.
