Customers FAQ's
ANSWER: Yes—at least in the United States, gender selection is legal for both medical reasons and for family balancing reasons. In many European countries, gender selection for family balancing is illegal.
ANSWER: We know that some fertility centers in Asia, including Japan, use calcium phosphate tablets to skew the vaginal pH to alkaline condition. This is used for gender selection for boys, as alkaline condition supposedly “favors” sperm with Y chromosome, making it easier for Y-bearing sperm to fertilize the egg, which would result in a [...]
ANSWER: Yes, the IVF procedure for gender selection is the same as the regular IVF procedure, and in itself carries the same risks as the regular IVF.
Answer: It depends on the method you choose. Of the two techniques scientifically proven to be effective, MicroSort® sperm sorting concentrates sperm for male or female, and the concentrated sperm is usually used in artificial insemination (intrauterine insemination, IUI). Although this method takes less time and costs less than the other scientifically proven technique for [...]
Meet our Doctors
Norbert Gleicher, MD and David Barad, MD, MS have a combined experience of over 55 years in research and treatment of infertility, with extensive experience in Gender Selection since the early days of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in the 1990s.
