Vasectomy has been established as one of the most reliable techniques for making a man sterile. It is safe, quick, and most effective except for a small percentage of the population afflicted by vasectomy's failure rates.

Vasectomy's failure rates have never comprised of those who have died because of a bad job at the surgery. However, it must be known that sterility operations in women may result in death sometimes. The vasectomy failure rate usually includes some form of infection or bleeding which is normal only up until a certain point. Nevertheless, it may be safely assumed that the vasectomy failure rate is as low as one or two percent. In addition to that, the vasectomy failure rate is much lower than any other contraceptive methods known to humankind today.

Most failure rates have been short term ones, especially one relating to inflammation of the scrotum area which can be definitely treated medically. Some people are also known to become prone to depression but that is only a psychological side effect of the surgery.

Failure rates usually comprise cases of infection, or a very meager chance of pregnancy. The chances of conceiving are as low as .5% and this is a reliable figure that most doctors would echo this basis the findings of several reputed research institutes.

There have been some rare cases where the vas deferens is known to grow back and not only is this extremely rare but it can most definitely be checked during the surgery by ensuring that there is an adequate gap between the two ends of the duct. In any case, if a couple were to conceive post as vasectomy surgery then that child is guaranteed to be on the spotlight for the media. We would all agree that quick stardom like that is most definitely rare!

Some other myths also exist about vasectomy failure rates. It is a common notion that vasectomy has correlations with heart attacks or lower libido. The first has been proven wrong by several studies and is in fact an exaggeration of the fact that the body takes some time to develop anti sperm immunity. The latter is also untrue because the hormone-testosterone is responsible for libido and that hormone is not affected in any way during a vasectomy operation.

On the whole the only proven vasectomy failure rates are those that relate to it being permanent with some chances of temporary infection and that is true for just about any operation on any part of the body.