phalloplasty

As phalloplasty has improved over the decades, the risks and complications from surgery have been reduced.

Female to male transsexuals may have a phalloplasty.

He also invented the metoidioplasty and the post-modern phalloplasty.

There are four different techniques for phalloplasty.

The overall aesthetic satisfaction rate for forearm phalloplasty is 90% in spite of its shortcomings.

Surgical repair for this is primarily a phalloplasty.

Michael Dillon (1915-1962) was a British physician and the first female-to-male transsexual to undergo phalloplasty.

Initially developed as reconstructive surgery, phalloplasty is now offered as a genital surgery option for trans men.

Unlike metoidioplasty, phalloplasty requires an implanted erectile prosthesis to achieve an erection (and enable sexual penetration).

Clitoroplasty, like phalloplasty, is a term that encompasses any surgical reconstruction of the clitoris, such as removal of the corpora.

Sometimes a full-scale metoidioplasty is done a few months before the actual phalloplasty to reduce the possibility of complications after phalloplasty.

One of the reasons there are many complications is doctors who do not specialize in genitoplasty or similar surgeries (phalloplasty, vaginoplasty) usually reconstruct the child's ambiguous genitalia.

Surgery to add function to the clitoris, such as metoidioplasty or clitoral release, are alternatives to phalloplasty that permit retention of sexual sensation in the clitoris.

However, for genital surgery, including hysterectomy/oophorectomy, orchiectomy, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty, 12 months of continuous RLE is listed as a requirement.

Video: Minimally Invasive Penile Implant Surgery (note: while this is being performed on a cismale, the procedure is similar during phalloplasty)

A relatively new technique involving a graft from the side of the chest under the armpit (known as a musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi free transfer flap) is a step forward in phalloplasty.

For example, a severely undervirilized boy with a pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias may have midline urogenital closure, third degree hypospadias repair, chordee release and phalloplasty, and orchiopexy performed.

Metaidoioplasty: An Alternative Phalloplasty Technique in Transsexuals by Hage, J. Joris (Journal of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Volume 97 Issue 1, January 1996)