Patients are observed one week after the surgery to look at the small incisions and remove any stitches if essential. Generally, the few stitches that were placed will be below the skin and will be degraded by the body, without the need for manual removal.
Persons should wait 2 to three months prior to attempting pregnancy in order to give the tubes a chance to get cured entirely. Trying to get pregnant ahead may have an increased risk of ectopic pregnancy (i.e. pregnancy in the fallopian tubes instead of in the womb).
When done by a trained laparoscopic or outpatient tubal reversal surgeon, laparoscopic tubal reversal adds the success rates of micro-surgical techniques with the advantages of minimally-invasive surgery i.e. faster recovery, better healing, less pain, fewer complications, and no visible disfiguring scars.