Are there any risks associated with vasectomies?

Are there any risks associated with vasectomies?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Can a vasectomy be reversed?; Do vasectomies sometimes fail to prevent pregnancy? and more...

The risks to a vasectomy--any time you make a cut, poke anywhere on the body you can have pain, you can have bleeding, you can get an infection. Specifically, the risks to a vasectomy are it can fail. They are not 100% fool-proof. The ends of the Vas can grow back together. We've developed some techniques to prevent that from happening. It's possible that years and years and years down the line the vasectomy site grows back together. That happens maybe 1 in 200 times, so it's very, very low.