I am a "newbie" with regards to MOS.
I am not a newbie in any manner with regards to phalloplastic surgery.
Something that started out in general to be extremely promising it appears has degraded.
There definitely ARE good surgical outcomes. The problem appears now that the percentages are all wrong. It also appears that a far higher than acceptable percentage of these procedures degrade over time. In the beginning the big thing was "lipo-transfer" this was simpluy removing fat from one location of a person's body and in this case injecting it into the penis. It was quickly discovered that without a blood supply to maintain it that it would re-absorb. The next "incredible discovery" was dermal grafts. Though it appears that the degrading took longer, these too as a whole were not a great success. In addition, scarring at the graft harvest site was often so bad as to require plastic surgery and other corrective measures to get it down to acceptable levels. The final transition was the incorporation of implants of a substance called Alloderm which is made by a company called "Life Cell". Problems have taken place with this in some individuals. I have heard of "re-absorbtion" in reference to this on another board, but I have never been able to actually substantiate this. What I have seen with Alloderm are two problems. One of these is the implant coming "loose" (for lack of a better term) and shifting requiring repairative surgery, and I have seen encapsulation with Alloderm. Encapsulation is an immune response, it is unpredictable, impossible to forcast and will happen in a small percentage of men. If that happens it is back under the knife with a very painful procedure to remove a great deal of tissue leaving the patient worse off than before.
If you have the option try everything else in the "natural Penis Enlargement realm" before you decide to go under the knife. It should not be the first thing on your list, but the final consideration.
There ARE successful procedures, but if you re-visit the patients after 5 years the percentage that have had problems will far exceed the percentage that is still satisfied.
Best of Luck
Fuzzy Ken
I am not a newbie in any manner with regards to phalloplastic surgery.
Something that started out in general to be extremely promising it appears has degraded.
There definitely ARE good surgical outcomes. The problem appears now that the percentages are all wrong. It also appears that a far higher than acceptable percentage of these procedures degrade over time. In the beginning the big thing was "lipo-transfer" this was simpluy removing fat from one location of a person's body and in this case injecting it into the penis. It was quickly discovered that without a blood supply to maintain it that it would re-absorb. The next "incredible discovery" was dermal grafts. Though it appears that the degrading took longer, these too as a whole were not a great success. In addition, scarring at the graft harvest site was often so bad as to require plastic surgery and other corrective measures to get it down to acceptable levels. The final transition was the incorporation of implants of a substance called Alloderm which is made by a company called "Life Cell". Problems have taken place with this in some individuals. I have heard of "re-absorbtion" in reference to this on another board, but I have never been able to actually substantiate this. What I have seen with Alloderm are two problems. One of these is the implant coming "loose" (for lack of a better term) and shifting requiring repairative surgery, and I have seen encapsulation with Alloderm. Encapsulation is an immune response, it is unpredictable, impossible to forcast and will happen in a small percentage of men. If that happens it is back under the knife with a very painful procedure to remove a great deal of tissue leaving the patient worse off than before.
If you have the option try everything else in the "natural Penis Enlargement realm" before you decide to go under the knife. It should not be the first thing on your list, but the final consideration.
There ARE successful procedures, but if you re-visit the patients after 5 years the percentage that have had problems will far exceed the percentage that is still satisfied.
Best of Luck
Fuzzy Ken