It’s not actually skin - it’s a sterile dermal matrix - sort of like a neutral sponge and your own tissue grows into the holes so it becomes part of you. Apparently, because most of the original genetic material is destroyed during processing, rejection is relatively rare. You can find more about it on this website.
News Center | AbbVie News Center
There is another alternative using the same technology except this is made from pigs - 1 quest, could you cope with that better? :chuckle: I believe one phalloplasty surgeon advocated this over Alloderm but I just checked his website and it seems he no longer uses it …… hmmm ….. sounds like something didn’t go as planned!:eek: I know it all sounds gross, but when you consider the miraculous results these materials have given to burns victims it makes it all worth while.
The latest thing (which I’m proud to say has been developed in Australia :) ) is a dermal matrix made from the patients own tissue! Tissue rejection and cross infection is, of course, not an issue and they have developed a method which requires only a minute amount of donor tissue which is grown into a matrix at alarming speed - it only takes a few days to grow masses of the stuff. Truely amazing science! At the moment it’s prohibitvely expensive, but the technology is now there.
lil1 :lep:
BPEL (5") | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | *20cm* (8")
MTSL (5") | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | *25cm* (10") MTSL = Maximum Traction Stretched Length
"Pertinaciously pursuing a penis of preposterously prodigious proportions." What a mouthful!