Your Center For Reproductive Health In NC
The North Carolina Center for Reproductive Medicine/Talbert Fertility Institute has been a trusted provider of reproductive health services in North Carolina and the East Coast since 1992. Founded to support couples in their dream of having a child, NCCRM offers advanced reproductive techniques led by experienced fertility specialists. Dr. Luther Talbert, one of our founders, is recognized for performing North Carolina’s first successful in vitro fertilization (IVF), contributing to our legacy of compassionate care and medical excellence in reproductive health.
Facilities
NCCRM has an on-site laboratory that operates continuously, with a full-time laboratory director who constantly monitors all aspects of our patients’ treatments. Our embryologists perform state-of-the-art assisted reproductive procedures, including micromanipulation procedures such as sperm injection (ICSI), assisted hatching, embryo cryopreservation, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
Our laboratory focus is to combine your eggs and sperm to achieve fertilization. We perform frozen cycles rather than fresh cycles. Only centers with a great freezing program can perform this, as the quality of embryos after thaw is critical. Our practice is one of the best at the new technique known as vitrification. This is the method we use in our egg bank. Eggs are very sensitive to freezing; we have had wonderful success with them. Embryos are less sensitive to vitrification, making frozen embryos a much more successful procedure than in the past.
Freezing all cycles also allows us to be more aggressive with stimulation since we trigger in a manner that will never cause hyperstimulation, and hyperstimulation is the riskiest part of IVF. This cycle allows a patient to stimulate once and transfer embryos as needed. (NCCRM can usually freeze 8-10 embryos after one stimulation cycle.) In addition, freezing all your eggs allows those worried about having too many frozen embryos for the future to only fertilize a couple of eggs and freeze eggs for future use as needed. Finally, research has also shown that frozen cycles have resulted in healthier babies with a higher birth weight.
Learn More
To learn more about our procedures and how we can assist you with your fertility plans, contact us today. For patients in the Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and Chapel Hill areas, you can also call 919-233-1680 to make an appointment at our Cary office. For patients in the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and Charlotte areas, you may contact 336-273-4490 to make an appointment at our Greensboro office or Request an Appointment Today!
