Intravaginal Culture: Should You Consider this "New" Fertility Treatment?

Intravaginal Culture: Should You Consider this “New” Fertility Treatment?

How does intravaginal culture compare to IUI and IVF and who should consider this new fertility treatment? Our guest is Dr. John Park, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist with Carolina Conceptions.

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Option for fertility treatment: oral medication to stimulate ovulation, IUI with or without injectable medications, IVF and IVC.
What are the difference in these treatment options and who should consider them?
May have heard of it as INVOcell because they manufacture the device?
What is the IVC process?
Are there criteria of who is best suited for intravaginal culture?
What are the advantages to using intravaginal culture?
How much does a typical IVC cycle cost compared to an IUI or IVF cycle. Where do the cost savings come from? Medication, incubation
Do you use the standard stimulation protocol or do you use a minimal stimulation.
How many embryos can be grown in the INVOcell device?
Are there advantages for using a woman’s vagina as an incubator over using a laboratory incubator?
What do you do with any extra eggs that are retrieved?
How do pregnancy rates for IVC cycle compare to IUI or IVF cycle?
Does IVC produce the same percentage of embryos that are of the quality to transfer?
Are embryos from IVC transferred at the blastocyst stage or earlier?
Use of INVOcell with donor sperm by single women, lesbian couples, and heterosexual couples with male factor infertility.
In your experience, are there some psychological benefits to IVC over other forms of fertility treatment.
Use with lesbian couples to allow both to participate.
How does intravaginal culture compare for multiple pregnancies?
How does IVC compare for creating excess embryos?
Can IVC improve access to care.