Now, the days of tediously taking oral contraceptive pills every day are finally over. Thanks to modern science, the concept of a birth control implant has been perfected and is now a reality. But how does it work?
Birth control implants come in many different names, but they all look the same – a thin, flexible, plastic rod, 40mm in length and 2mm in diameter, roughly the size of a toothpick or a cardboard matchstick. It requires a prescription before you can buy it, and youll need a trained doctor to have it inserted under the skin of the arm. Contraceptive implants provide continuous protection from pregnancy for 3 years. Compared to its predecessor, Norplant, which consisted of six rods, the new birth control implant, Implanon only requires one, making insertion and removal easier.
Birth control implants work like the progestin-only pill or the minipill, it thickens the cervical mucus lining to prevent sperm from getting to the egg, changes the lining of the uterus so that implantation of a fertilized ovum would be difficult, and stops the ovaries from releasing an egg cell monthly. The implant continually releases a low dose of etonogestrel, a kind of...
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