Can A Vasectomy Be Undone?
This question is commonly asked by people who have not entirely made up their minds that they want permanent sterility! An exact answer is very hard to provide to this question as there are many ways for a vasectomy to be done and some techniques are quite different from the technique used in this clinic with less shortening of the ends of the vas.
A competent urologist using microsurgical techniques can nearly always rejoin the two cut ends of the vas on one or both sides. However the true test of success is whether or not the reversal operation leads to a healthy baby being born later on!
For some vasectomy techniques the degree of success at reversal is higher. Some doctors remove much more vas than here in this clinic and therefore it must be harder to rejoin the two cut ends during a reversal operation. Other doctors remove no portion of the vas and sometimes don't even cut the vas; they just crush it and put a tight ligature around it to keep it permanently crushed. This technique causes no shortening of the vas but is less secure with regards to permanent contraception.
Overall the quoted chances of successfully fathering a child after vasectomy reversal is about 60%. However, it is sound advice to avoid vasectomy if one is not entirely certain that sterilisation is for keeps!