The World Egg Bank

The World Egg Bank

Not all egg banks are equal; comparing guarantees, prices, and donor selections may get you nowhere. One must ask themselves; how does this egg bank manage its egg quality? If you cannot be assured that the highest quality ova are the priority of the egg bank, guarantees, pricing, and donor selection are the least of your worries. Other egg banks outsource donor recruiting, screening, retrieval, egg freezing, and egg transport services, sometimes more than a dozen different clinics do these services. Individual clinic employees at each out-sourced clinic location are continuously in transition and new training must take place with each new employee. These out-sourced clinics are busy with their own patients and meeting their patients’ needs first and foremost. How can egg retrieval and freezing which comes second to many of these clinics accommodate quality control?

The World Egg Bank has developed a unique structure: We are the only egg bank with a singular focus on providing quality donor eggs. We do not run a multi-service infertility practice that is distracted by many patients and many treatment options. We built a state-of-the-art center that only focuses on donors, and donor eggs. We cater to the needs and care of our egg donors without the diversions associated with a patient’s infertility treatments. The World Egg Bank uses specialized laboratory systems and staff. All donor stimulations, retrievals, and egg vitrification are done with our proven protocols at our singular location, ensuring we manage quality.

The amount of experience held by the person who vitrifies your eggs is important. There is a learning curve associated with vitrifying eggs; due to the sensitive nature of the egg and the precision required when placing the egg on the vitrification device, thousands of repetitions without distractions are crucial to be consistent. For someone with less experience, small amounts of drift from the original protocol can add up to large amounts of variability in egg quality. If an out-sourced network clinic laboratory is very busy with their own IVF patients, the critical timing of the steps from retrieval to vitrification can be easily overlooked. At The World Egg Bank, we focus on only vitrifying eggs, and our embryologist has vitrified every egg in our egg bank; that is over 10,000 eggs. Our results support our consistent and reliable egg quality every day, all over the world.

Egg banks who outsource to network clinics have additional risks handling the storage and shipment of eggs after they are vitrified. Moving eggs from a storage tank to a shipper is a delicate matter, as eggs can ‘warm’ within seconds. The World Egg Bank ships your eggs once – directly to your clinic. There are no middlemen or distribution hubs. In many cases, eggs are transferred from a retrieval clinic to a storage location and later on transferred to the clinic of the intended parent. That is potentially three shipments and two other transfers to storage tanks in the process to get your eggs to you.

Undoubtedly other egg banks are taking every precaution possible, but when the entire process is out of their hands, how can they manage people, processes, and ultimately, egg quality with a web of network clinics? Yes, egg bank guarantees are there if something happens, but why risk going through the loss, replacement, and rescheduling of a transfer if the freezing process was not ideally managed in the first place? At The World Egg Bank, we are science and data-driven. Our stimulation protocols, vitrification technique, shipping system, and all related technical and operational systems are monitored to improve the quality of your treatment. The World Egg Bank can accomplish this because we do it all under one roof using our purpose-built database.

Everyone at your full-service IVF center is busy. Usually, the clinical team refers you to the only egg bank they are familiar with, and they do not generally know the differences among egg banks and their operational practices. If your clinic does not know how The World Egg Bank procures and freezes eggs, our team is available to visit your clinic and show them how we work!