Penile Shortening Following implant from 6 1/2 to 3 1/2″
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008What a loss and how does this happen and what can be done? In this particular patient I pulled on the head of the penis and the tips were not in the mid glans but at the distal shaft, a loss of 1/2 to 3/4″ right there. Had an expandable implant been installed with usage the patient might have gained another 1/2 inch.
When inappropriately short implants are used, the penis may just scar down to a smaller size and the only remedy is to try traction before another procedure or a penile lengthening surgical technique which can vary from pubic dermatolipectomy, release of the suspensory ligament, or release of the neruro-vascular bundle and urethra and apply a patch graft to help extend the corpora. This is very advanced and risk laden surgery as opposed to simply installing an expander cylinder, but requested by a very insistent patient.
Being a phalloplasty sugeon, we have several phalloplasty before and after phalloplasty photos and phalloplasty images on our web-site along with phalloplasty costs. Augmentation phalloplasty is highly specialized surgery.
Harold Reed, M.D.