AlloDerm for Penile Widening
I’m curious if you use only one “sheet” of alloderm per procedure, or if they can be doubled up?…if so, how does that effect pricing? I am hoping to gain at least an inch in girth, if possible. Thanks.. Steven
Hi Steven,
May 26, 2009
Good morning Steven,
Thank you for your interest in what we do and visiting our web-site penisdoctor.com Hope you can relate to some of the photos.
Having done AlloDerm for about 12 years, we have learned not only from our experience, but also attending the complications of others, that multiple layers is a blueprint for disaster.
AlloDerm works best when a capillary bed grows into the graft and this in turn is followed with an ingrowth of cells of your own making. Afterall, AlloDerm is a dermal matrix. In other words a scaffold designed to receive in growth of tissues. When the strips are multiple, this never occurs on the inside. This often a good hiding place for bacteria which may ultimately make their presence known clinically.
We are using “extra thick implantable” and beyond that requesting the largest in their inventory. Just like every egg in an extra large box may not be precisely equal, one could be larger than others.
We can also extend the strip laterally to provide more girth if that is what you desire. But you must have a larger than average penis.
We have learned the primrose lane to complications starts out when a patient says “money is no object, put as much AlloDerm in as possible.” This also causes compression of your blood supply and in turn results in many wound healing problems.
There is some much more information we would be delighted to put out to you after you initiate a consultation with our office.
Hope you had a restful weekend,
Harold M. Reed, M.D.
Phalloplasty Surgeon
305-865-2000
May 7th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
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