Conceptus Inc. Celebrates Five Years of Essure Permanent Birth Control Procedure at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist Annual Meeting

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) underway in San Diego, Conceptus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPTS) is celebrating five years of U.S. commercial sales of the Essure® procedure, the first and only permanent birth control that does not require surgery. Last month Conceptus announced that more than 115,000 women worldwide had undergone the procedure, which is a far less invasive solution to tubal ligation.