When the ParaGard IUD was first introduced in the United States in 1988, the product label indicated that the copper intrauterine device (IUD) was for women who have had at least one child. This ...

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ParaGard is the only brand currently manufacturing copper IUDs. They are plastic T-shaped devices about the size of a quarter. Unlike hormonal IUDs, ParaGard is wrapped with a coil of copper ...

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There are currently five brands of IUDs on the market. One, Paragard, distributed by CooperSurgical, wraps a thin layer of copper around the plastic device, offering an IUD option that doesn’t ...