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IUD Use in Nulliparous Women
Medically reviewed by Andrea L. Braden, MD 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 ...
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 ...