Penis Surgery
February 9, 2010
In April 2005, Dr. _____ retired from the active practice of surgery. Based on his many years of experience, Dr. _____ now provides information to men and women who are interested in penis enlargement surgery.
Since earliest times penis size has been equated to power, strength, virility, fertility, dominance and aggressiveness. Museums containing artifacts of early civilizations exhibit erect phalluses (penises) of extraordinary size. While no man has expressed a desire for a smaller penis, most men will not wish to undergo the expense and inconvenience of penis enlargement surgery, especially if their experience in the bedroom has been satisfactory. Other men are strongly motivated to seek penis enlargement.
IS IT AN ACCEPTED PROCEDURE?
Enhancement phalloplasty is a cosmetic procedure. It rarely corrects pathology or anatomic defects (most phalloplasty patients have normal-sized penises.) By training and experience urologists are not equipped to deal with problems of “self-image,” “self-esteem,” and appearance. Yet urologists have felt that since the penis is involved, this is their turf. Early results with phalloplasty were often unfortunate and the unhappy recipients of these procedures went to see urologists who then formed what, for them, was their definitive and abiding unfavorable (and understandable) opinion of the procedure. Despite the impressive advances in pre-operative, operative and post-operative care and the thousands of satisfied patients, these unfavorable opinions have not been altered. Both the American Urological Association and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgeons have repeatedly issued position papers indicating that they have not seen long-term results showing phalloplasty to be either safe or effective over the long term. In fairness, close to none of these physicians has ever performed a phalloplasty himself and it is probably safe to say that very few of these physicians has ever seen a phalloplasty patient himself. Consequently, since only the unhappy patients have gone to their urologists for another opinion, these urologists haven’t seen any happy patients.
WHY
I DON’T DO ALLODERM MATRIX GRAFTS (ADMG’s)
for penile enlargement.
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