Health (A weekly column prepared by Dr. BAlwant Singh’s Hospital Inc)

The D&C (Dilatation and Curettage) is a small surgical procedure and perhaps one of the most misused. It literally entails opening the mouth of the womb to allow instruments into the uterus to scrape the contents of the uterus.

It is a procedure that may be done in a hospital using general anaesthesia or in a clinic using local anaesthesia, and is fairly minor.

Contrary to popular belief