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Original research article| Volume 98, ISSUE 6, P467-470, December 2018

Historical record-setting trends in IUD use in the United States

      “No other contraceptive method has undergone so rapid and thorough a change of medical reputation as that experienced by intrauterine devices over the past few years” [
      • Tietze C.
      Contraception with intrauterine devices. 1959–1966.
      ]. These words from United States-based contraceptive researcher Christopher Tietze in 1966 also characterize the last 10 years in the United States.
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