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Penile implant surgery is a long-lasting treatment for erection dysfunction (ED) in that it allows a man to have an erection essentially at any time.
Some benefits of penile implant surgery are:
Some benefits of penile implant surgery are:
- surgery takes only about an hour to perform
- can be done as an outpatient procedure, in most cases
- it has been done for over 40 years on hundreds of thousands of men
- high rates of patient satisfaction
- does not affect a man’s sensation, orgasm, ejaculation or urination
- may not be covered by insurance
Broadly speaking, there are two types of penile implants -- inflatable implants and semi-rigid (malleable) rods. Inflatable implants may have a two- or three-piece design.
Advantages of a three-piece inflatable penile implant include the following:
Advantages of a three-piece inflatable penile implant include the following:
- Acts and feels more like a natural erection than semirigid models.
- Requires more manual dexterity than other implants.
- Possibility of leakage or malfunction.
- Most expensive type of implant.
- Requires the most extensive surgery of all implants.
- Penis looks more natural in erect and flaccid states than with the semirigid implant.
- Easier to operate than the three-piece implant.
- No abdominal incision.
- Possibility of leakage or malfunction.
- Easy to use, especially for those with limited dexterity.
- Requires the least extensive surgery.
- Fewest parts, so less chance of malfunction.
- Least expensive type of implant.
- Constantly firm.
- Somewhat harder to conceal than inflatable implants, but new designs make this less of a concern than in the past.
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