Making healthy sperm is complicated and things can go wrong along the way. If you are thinking about starting a family, have been trying for a while, or have experienced miscarriage, it makes sense to take a fertility test to check out the health of your sperm.
Semen analysis is usually the first step men take when looking into their fertility. It provides important information about sperm health, but often that’s not enough. Semen analysis measures your sperm count, motility, and morphology but it does not reveal the quality of the sperm – only a sperm DNA fragmentation test can do that.
What’s the difference between Sperm DNA Testing & Semen Analysis?
Sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) damage provides more information about a man’s fertility than semen analysis alone. Many men who have a normal semen analysis result cannot get their partner pregnant, while lots of men with an abnormal semen analysis result do conceive naturally.
Research shows that 40 percent of the men attending fertility clinics who had a normal semen analysis result, also had a high sperm DNA damage result using our Exact® test. Men with high sperm DNA fragmentation damage:
Our range of SDF tests are the most accurate available having the highest sensitivity, specificity and predictive power when compared to other sperm DNA tests.
A Semen Analysis test will tell you:
| Semen Analysis Parameter | Normal Values* |
| Concentration (M/mL) | 16M/ml or more |
| Progressive Motility | 30% or more |
| Morphology (Normal) | 4% or more |
| Volume | 1.4ml or more |
| Total Sperm Count (per ejaculate) | 39M or more |
| Total Sperm Motility | 42% or more |
| pH | 7.2 or more |
*WHO 6th Edition (Lower Reference Value)
A Sperm DNA Fragmentation (SDF) test will tell you:
Your sperm DNA provides 50% of the blueprint for your child – it is what will make your child look and act like you!
An SDF test is the only test that provides the inside picture of your fertility status – whether your sperm are of sufficient quality:
