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eqstudent,
An antibiotic taken directly post injection will not prevent an infection after one year post-injection , surely it will help in preventing or decrease the chance of infection in the short period .
We could ask any doctor in the US who is using Artefill does he advice his patients to take antibiotics after the injection, esp. after the 2nd session.

@S.O - well said. None of the fillers themselves can be infected but the injection site can become infected.

The risk for pathogens are universal for all medical procedures using either incision or injection, albeit very low when the medical facility & staff follow all guidelines for sanitation and sterility. So when one says that there is a risk for infection from undergoing the PMMA procedure, it is in fact real, but not necessarily because of the PMMA product itself. It is usually due to a patient coming in contact with pathogens during the procedure itself.
The prescribing of antibiotics furthers this realization.
PMMA are sterile little beads of plastic and in themselves shouldn\'t pose a pathogenic concern (assuming, of course, the product itself isn\'t tainted).

smartman wrote: ...To answer this it is known that you DONT need antibiotic for PMMA injection, so the risk of serious infection for this filler is zero ... Also I have posted before that you have millions of macrophages around the beads which will attack any micro-organisms coming close to the beads...

I\'m not sure why you would be telling people this. For a variety of reasons these statements are not factual and could have serious consequences for members if they follow. There are classes of pathogens including staph, strep, and other gram negative organisms that macrophages are not effective in surpressing. In addition there have been studies presented that show PMMA infections including this one presented on the old site aestheticfacialenhancement.co.za/faq/49-...injections.html\"One patient presented with infection (hyperemia, edema, and pustule formation 1 year after injection).\"

PMMA is great stuff and Dr C is the best in the world at putting it in a penis but lets not get carried away. There is a reason he perscribes ABs!

mustang2020,
I think you are asking if there is a risk of infection if a patient with ED injecting (e.g.Trimix) through PMMA and into the CC??

To answer this it is known that you DONT need antibiotic for PMMA injection, so the risk of serious infection for this filler is zero , I know Dr.C. is prescribing antibiotic just to be on the safe side, but Dr.Samy Passy in Brazil told me you dont need antibiotic for PMMA and also Prof.Lemperle told me the same thing but I did take it because I had Alloderm before my PMMA, so I didnt want any chance of the remnant Alloderm to be infected. Also I have posted before that you have millions of macrophages around the beads which will attack any micro-organisms coming close to the beads.
In the other hand if you have allograft or alloplast in your penis there will be a danger of severe infection and rejection of these materials if you insert the needle through them .

Have a question: if you have PMMA and for what ever reason, such as ED later in life, will using a needle to inject materials THRU the PMMA and into the CC be a problem for the PMMA for any reason?

As far as I am concerned pmma is the only option at present. I wouldn\'t touch a silicon implant or alloderm. Fillers like macrolane are a complete waste of time, being soft and squishy. FFT is safe but the result isn\'t that good and you need regular fillups. I tried scaffolds and that didn\'t work and besides I think surgery is too invasive. There is nothing else, for me it\'s pmma or forget the whole thing and live with what you have.

@ New1inch,
I have the feeling that 5 years is a bit long a timeline for any given method or technology these days. Today I spoke with a PhalloPlasty specialist who operated two thousand men for length and girth and he was adamant that PMMA very much depends on the skill of the hands which apply it, as do for a large measure other fillers - those which get resorbed are however less critical because you can always wait for errors to self-destruct over time.
I think that there are possibly other options lurking in the sidelines which might come to the forefront in the coming couple of years, such as stem cell advances, targeted chemical methods and even possibly cell activation with the \"vampire\" technique? Furthermore PMMA will remain limited in its development in phalloplasty by the fact that it is very skill and experience dependent, meaning that while Dr C is expert as employing it others may not fare so well, creating potential risks for patients and also possibly reaching improbable and unwanted results. Yet you are quite correct that today PMMA as offered by Dr C is quite tempting as it promises a very seductive ratio of result to cost while properly managing latent risks of this material.
HC

Haha.. just sitting back thinking last october or november when on the old forum we all was hoping for a cure all procedure and PMMA was just something no one really knew about trying to find different articles on it and such.. now It seems as if this whole website is dedicated to PMMA even though I know its not but the topic is soo prominent. Boy how things change so fast..lol.. Guess thisis our only real option for the next 5 years or so huh?

I\'ve been reading everything on this site and others regarding pmma and it appears to be a great alternative to a fat transfer.

Thanks guys. For your face, there are lots of options for fillers...juvaderm, restylane, radiesse, sculptra, etc. Most last 6 months to a year, Sculptra maybe 2 years, so if Dr C and staff chose PMMA instead, they must have total faith in it.
Would you put something in your face if you thought there was a high probability of complications? This assures me that they felt it was the best option for them.

Wade told me he has PMMA all over his body. You can tell that he has had some work done on his face. Also the guy who works at the front desk, Christian, I think his name is told me that he had PMMA as well, just not in his penis.

southie wrote: Does anyone know if Dr. C has PMMA in his own body (not necessarily his penis). That would be a testament to his faith in the product. On his regular dermatology site, it seems like it can be applied to just about anywhere...face, lips, to augment muscles like shoulders and chest and butt. Its even used to hide veins in the leg by building up surrounding tissue.

Both Wade and Dr. C have stated that they have PMMA all over their body.

Does anyone know if Dr. C has PMMA in his own body (not necessarily his penis). That would be a testament to his faith in the product. On his regular dermatology site, it seems like it can be applied to just about anywhere...face, lips, to augment muscles like shoulders and chest and butt. Its even used to hide veins in the leg by building up surrounding tissue.

SO,
The reason I have mentioned that because my doctor from Brazil (Dr.Samy Passy - Metacrill) told me that time :- I could buy Metacrill from him directly or he could sell it to any doctors back home (so it looks so easy to buy Metacrill in Brazil and it is dangerous in the same time I think there are may be many non-professional persons in Brazil can get Metacrill easily and inject people with it and that\'s why you hear some bad results (e.g. lumps etc.), and I think Newplastic can be sold in the same way, I might be wrong. Or may be you just ask Dr.C. if he can give you a small ampule of Newplastic for any reason without telling him anything about our worries (I know you might not succeed).
Actually testing Newplastic or Metacrill is not so important for me, I dont need this test, ( as you know I had Artecoll in one side of my face for 15 yrs and Penile Metacrill for 3 yrs ) but I am interested of having pmma injection in the future in the gap between the glans and the shaft . Till now I have no problem whats so ever from pmma.
I just want to help and to give the guys esp. who are interested in penile pmma but still they have the fear of pmma migration how to prove that Newplastic is almost pure from any small irregular beads.