Phalloplasty in Dubai - Phalloplasty Clinic

Phalloplasty is surgery that builds or rebuilds a penis from a flap of your own tissue, usually taken from the forearm or the thigh. For men, it is done after cancer surgery or an injury, or for a penis that never formed fully at birth.

Phalloplasty is done when a man has lost his penis, or most of it, or was born without one that works. The causes include surgery for penile cancer, accidents, severe infections, micropenis, aphallia and bladder exstrophy, and heavy scarring after an infected penile implant had to be removed.

Phalloplasty gives you a penis that lets you pass urine standing up, feel touch and, once an implant is added, have penetrative sex. It does not make a healthy penis bigger; that is penis enlargement, a different procedure.

Most men need at least two operations, several months apart. The first builds the penis; a later one can shape the tip and add an erection implant, usually at least a year after the first, once feeling has come back. Some men need a further operation to repair a narrowing or a leak in the new urethra.

The first and main operation takes most of a day, around five to seven and a half hours, under general anesthesia. You then stay in hospital for about 8 to 10 days, so the blood flow to the new penis can be checked closely.

The skin usually comes from your forearm or the front of your thigh, together with its nerves and blood vessels. A forearm flap gives good feeling and usually a good look, but leaves a scar on the arm that is covered with a skin graft; a thigh flap can give more length, and its scar can be hidden by shorts.

You pee standing up, through a new urethra built inside the penis and joined to your own. While it heals you have a catheter. Narrowing or small leaks along the new urethra happen in around 3 in 10 men, and they can almost always be repaired.

Not by itself: a rebuilt penis has no erectile tissue, so erections come from an implant added in a later operation, usually at least a year after the first. Implants in a rebuilt penis have high rates of infection and wear, and some need replacing over the years.

Most men regain feeling in the new penis, because nerves in the flap are joined to nerves in the groin. Feeling comes back slowly over months; in one study of men rebuilt after penile cancer, up to 86% had feeling in the new penis.

Usually yes, when the new urethra is joined to your own. In a study of men rebuilt after losing the penis in an injury, every man who had the full urethra made could pass urine and ejaculate from the tip.

It can look natural, in clothes and undressed. In studies of men rebuilt after cancer, an injury or a condition from birth, most were satisfied with how the penis looks and with its size; the scar where the flap was taken is the main drawback.

Most men go back to work after two to three months, later if the job is physical. Completing every stage, including an erection implant, usually takes a year or more.

Phalloplasty is major surgery and complications are common, but most of them can be repaired. The most common are narrowing or leaks in the new urethra; the most serious is a clot in the joined blood vessels, which is why you are watched closely in hospital. Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity raise the risk, so your surgeon checks these first.

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