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Contraception

Helping You Meet Your Family Planning Goals

There are many contraceptive options available on the market to meet your needs.

Our providers will work with you to provide to contraception best for you based on your family planning needs and personal contraception preferences. The options include reversible, irreversible, short term and long term methods.


Types of Birth Control

  • Effectiveness of Family Planning
  • Birth control Pill
  • Contraceptive Patch
  • Depo-Provera Injection
  • Male Condoms and spermicides
  • Mirena IUD
  • Nexplanon
  • NuvaRing
  • Paragard IUD

Effectiveness of Family Planning

Least Effective
  • Calendar Method 24 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Spermicide 28 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Male Condom 18 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Female condom 21 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Withdrawal 22 in 100 women will become pregnant
More Effective
  • NuvaRing 9 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Birth Control Patch 9 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Birth Control Pill 9 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Depo-provera 6 in 100 women will become pregnant
Most Effective – less than 1 pregnancy in 100 women in a year
  • Tubal ligation 0.5 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Vasectomy 0.15 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Intrauterine Device (IUD) 0.2 in 100 women will become pregnant
  • Nexplanon 0.05 in 100 women will become pregnant
From Our Patients
“Dr. Cajas has been my Dr. for my past three pregnancies... I absolutely love him and his staff.
I would highly recommend him to anyone.” – Rosy Estrada