What Success Rate Information Does Tubal Reversal Doctors Provide?

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Tubal Reversal Doctors (tubal-reversal.net) publishes a dedicated success-rate section built from its own surgical caseload, not from outside registries or pooled multi-center data. The site states it has performed over 19,000 successful tubal reversal procedures since 1997. If you want outcome numbers broken down by patient age, tubal length, and pregnancy result, the site provides them — but you should read them as single-practice, self-reported statistics rather than independent benchmarks.

What the success-rate section covers

The site organizes its outcome reporting under a "Our Success Rates" area with these components:

  • Overview — a summary page of reported outcomes
  • Study Methodology — how the practice says its figures were compiled
  • Where Patients Come From — geographic origin of patients
  • Patients Ages & Procedures — age distribution alongside procedure counts
  • Pregnancies Age & Procedures — pregnancy outcomes cross-tabulated with age and procedure volume
  • Pregnancies by Tubal Lengths — pregnancy results grouped by remaining tubal length
  • Births, Miscarriages, Ectopic Pregnancies By Age — outcomes split into live births, miscarriages, and ectopic pregnancies, by age band
  • Tubal Reversal Pregnancy Statistics — aggregate pregnancy statistics

The practice also maintains a separate Essure Reversal Pregnancy Statistics page for that procedure.

The dimensions the data is cut by

The reporting is not a single headline percentage. It separates results along several axes:

Dimension What it tells you
Patient age How outcomes shift across age bands
Tubal length Whether remaining tube length relates to pregnancy
Procedure volume Pregnancy outcomes by number of procedures
Outcome type Live births vs. miscarriages vs. ectopic pregnancies
Patient origin Where patients traveled from

Splitting ectopic pregnancies out from live births matters: a "pregnancy rate" that folds in ectopic and miscarriage outcomes is not the same as a live-birth rate, and the site reports them separately.

How to interpret these numbers

Three points shape how much weight the figures can carry:

  1. Source. The data come from the practice's own patients. The site describes itself as responsible for more tubal reversal surgeries and more tubal reversal babies than any other doctors or facility worldwide — a claim about volume, not an independent audit.
  2. Methodology page. Because the site includes a "Study Methodology" page, read it before comparing any number to figures from another provider or to IVF outcome data. Follow-up completeness, how pregnancies are confirmed, and how patients are counted all change what a percentage means.
  3. Comparison use. The site also hosts a "Reversal VS IVF" section with pregnancy outcomes, so it is positioned to be read alongside IVF statistics — but the two datasets are collected differently, and the site's own methodology page is the place to check what is and isn't comparable.

What to check before relying on a figure

  • Whether the number you are reading is a pregnancy rate or a live-birth rate
  • Which age band and tubal length group it applies to
  • Whether ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages are included or excluded
  • Whether the methodology page states a follow-up period and how patients were tracked

For a decision about surgery, the age- and tubal-length breakdowns are more useful than any single overall percentage, since both factors appear in the site's own reporting as separate categories.