Before we introduce the difference between frozen eggs and fresh eggs and the their respective advantages, we would like to honestly introduce the risks of using donor eggs. We understand that using donor eggs is a backup plan for all families. All medical procedures should be considered as risky operations especially to highly specialized treatment like IVF treatment. No matter you choose to use frozen or fresh donor eggs, it is estimated that, about 50% chance that any give cycle will result in a pregnancy and 50% in failure. Unexpected things like premature delivery, multiple babies, low birth weight, miscarriage or developmental difficulties in child, genetic mutation, and so might happen during the entire process.
To some extend, the process for fresh egg donation itself is sometimes unpredictable because it involves 2 separate persons, the recipient of the eggs and the donor who produces them. An anonymous donor has to be qualified to produce high quality eggs with good ovarian function and genetic materials. We perform FDA standard physical examination, psychological screening, sexual transmitted diseases check, genetic screening, criminal background check, and so forth. However, sometimes when recipient decides to move forward with a fresh egg donor, unexpected situation might be happened. The donor may also change her mind because of personal incidents.
The process for frozen donor eggs seem to be easier since the eggs are already frozen and the egg donor has completed her cycle. In DBA frozen eggs program, all egg donor candidates have to pass the highest standard FDA screenings as mentioned above to make sure that each frozen donor egg in our lab is secure, healthy, and ready to be fertilized, minimizing the risks for donor egg recipients. However, due to the limitations of the latest freezing and thawing technologies, nobody could guarantee the survival rate after thawing even the latest research and statistic numbers show that we have way higher survival rate compared with 5 years ago. BDA interviewed several doctors in leading IVF centers, different doctors hold different points of views towards whether frozen eggs is inferior to fresh eggs.
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