Category: plastic surgery case study | testicular implants

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Testicle Removals with XL Testicle Implant Replacements due to COVID Induced Inflammatory Reaction to Scrotal Silicone Injections

Background: Silicone injections to the genitals (penis and scrotum) is a known method for aesthetic enlargement of these genital structures. While not an FDA-approved procedure or injection material it is often done outside the U.S.. Such silicone injections create their effect as the material is non-resorbable. The body has no known enzymes to break the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Innovative Design for Improving the Softness of XL and XXL Testicle Implants

Improvements have been made to testicle implants over the past few years for their aesthetic enhancements. Larger sizes are now available that go beyond the standard 5.0 size that used to be he largest size available. Custom implant designing makes any implant size and shape possible. While the most testicle implants are oblong with a Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Wraparound Testicle Implants Based on Ultrasound Measurements

Background: Testicular enhancement is a conceptually different procedure from testicular replacement. Replacement is a reconstructive procedure to implant a substitute for what has been lost. Enhancement is to enlarge the appearance of testicles that are intact…small but present. Both younger and older men present for testicular enhancement but often for slightly different reasons. The older Read More…

Technical Strategies – Testicle Implant Capsulectomies and Capsulotomies

Testicular implants are the smallest aesthetic body implant. Despite its small size it shares several features to that of another body implant that is far more commonly used, breast implants. The similarities may not seem obvious and the implant compositions are different. (testicle implants are soft solid implants while breast implants are soft gel-filled implants) Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Penoscrotal Webbing Correction with Combined Solid and Wraparound Custom Testicle Implants

Background: Enlargement of the testicles involves the placement of an implant. Testicular enlargement is different than testicular replacement in that a testicle is in place and the space it occupies is requested to the enlarged. This can be done by one of two methods, side by side implant placement and wrapping the existing the testicle Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Placement of Custom Testicle Implants in a Silicone Injected Scrotum

Background: Enlargement of the scrotum can be achieved by a variety of injection and implant techniques. An injection approach offers a no-surgical approach in which filler materials could include saline and a variety of non-permanent and permanent fillers. The most common permanent filler used, and the only one that really exists, is silicone oil. Silicone Read More…

Saline vs Solid Silicone Testicle Implants – Their Seen and Unseen Differences

There are two types of implants that can be used for aesthetic testicular enhancement. Both provide volume but do so with different characteristics that does affect the aesthetic outcome. In the spirit of the old adage whose origin comes from the advertising world, ‘One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words’ those differences are visually apparent. Read More…

Technical Strategies – Insertion of XL Custom Testicle Implants With A Funnel Device

Testicle implants are placed through skin incisions at various locations on the scrotum. For any standard testicle implant size (5cm in length or less or less than 40cc volume) a small skin incision poses no restriction to placing the implant. The extra soft durometer of a silicone testicle implant can be easily compressed between one’s Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Ultrasoft Silicone Testicle Implant Replacements For Smaller Hard Reconstuctive Saline Testicle Implants

Background: Saline-filled testicle implants are most commonly used for reconstructive in replacing the lost testicle due to trauma, tumors or torsion. While they do provide some bilateral fill of the scrotum they have several implant properties which are undesirable. These include a very hard feel due to the pressure of the saline in the implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom XL Testicle Implant Replacements For Unsatisfactory Cupped Testicle Enlargement Implants

Background: The appearance of the scrotum is created by what lies within (testicles) and its musculocutaneous cover. (scrotal skin) While each plays an important aesthetic role in the appearance of the scrotum, when it comes to size it is the testicles that define how big it is. Making the natural testicles appear bigger is properly Read More…