In Office Sterilization - Essure® and Adiana®
Essure (Permanent Birth Control)
Essure is a permanent birth control procedure that works with your body to create a natural barrier against pregnancy. This gentle procedure can be performed in a doctor's office in less than an hour.
Trusted by women and doctors for over five years, Essure is covered by most insurance providers. If the Essure procedure is performed in a doctor's office, depending on your specific insurance plan, payment may be as low as a simple co-pay.
Essure offers women what no birth control ever has:
- No cutting
- No going under general anesthesia
- No slowing down to recover
- No hormones
- No guessing - your doctor can confirm when you can rely on Essure for birth control
- Short procedure time - Essure only takes about 13 minutes to perform
And you'll never have to worry about unplanned pregnancy again.
The Essure procedure is permanent and is NOT reversible. Therefore, you should be sure you do not want children in the future.
About the Procedure
The Essure procedure does not require any cutting into the body. Instead, an Essure trained doctor inserts small flexible micro-inserts™ through the body’s natural pathways (vagina, cervix, and uterus) and into your fallopian tubes.
The procedure can be performed in the comfort of a doctor’s office without general anesthesia, and most women resume their normal activities within one day.
During the 3 months following the procedure, your body and the micro-inserts work together to form a natural barrier that prevents sperm from reaching the egg. During this period, you must continue using another form of birth control (other than an IUD or IUS).
Three months after the Essure procedure, a doctor will perform an Essure Confirmation Test, to confirm that the tubes are fully blocked and that the women can rely on Essure for permanent birth control.
Unlike birth control pills, patches, rings, and some forms of IUDs, Essure does not contain hormones to interfere with your natural menstrual cycle. Your periods should more or less continue in their natural state. |
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Adiana® Permanent Contraception
What is Adiana Permanent Contraception?
Adiana Permanent Contraception is a simple, safe, minimally invasive procedure that permanently prevents pregnancy. It works by stimulating your body's own tissue to grow in and around tiny, soft inserts that are placed inside your fallopian tubes.
Why choose Adiana Permanent Contraception?
- It's permanent
- It's safe
- It's effective
- It uses no hormones or drugs
- It's a simple procedure with a quick recovery
- It leaves nothing in the uterus that might limit future gynecologic procedures
How does Adiana Permanent Contraception work?
Adiana Permanent Contraception: the safe, simple, minimally invasive option for permanent birth control
Adiana Permanent Contraception is a minimally invasive procedure that provides protection from pregnancy. It works by stimulating your body's own tissue to grow in and around tiny, soft inserts that are placed inside your fallopian tubes.
Here's how Adiana Permanent Contraception works:
There are four simple steps to the Adiana procedure:
Step 1: A slender, flexible instrument (delivery catheter) is passed through the body's natural openings (i.e., through the vagina and cervix and into the uterus) to deliver a low level of radiofrequency energy (i.e., energy that generates heat to create a superficial lesion) to a small section of each fallopian tube.
Step 2: A tiny, soft insert - about the size of a grain of rice - is placed in each of your fallopian tubes, right where the energy was applied.
Step 3: You must use another form of birth control over the next 3 months, while new tissue grows in and around the Adiana inserts, eventually blocking your fallopian tubes.
Step 4: At 3 months, a special test is performed (hysterosalpingogram or HSG) to confirm that your tubes are fully blocked. This test will ensure that the procedure has been successful.
