we _need_better_phalloplasty wrote: Personally, I'd rather ask why we don't have an effective and adequately safe procedure for Erect lenghtening in 2020. I believe this is a much more relevant question. We can quite safely(or very safely) say that the biggest obstacle actually preventing us from having a surgery like this is animal testing. The fact than animal models are not predictive of human response to drugs and disease. We can extend this to regenerative medicine, nanomedicine,cell therapy,tissue engineering, vaccine testing(you know that more than 100 experimental vaccines against hiv all failed in clinical trials? According to animal tests , these were safe and effective.At the present time we don't have any vaccine against HIV after decades of research),gene therapy, surgical interventions and so on. If we hadn't relied on such tests, and we'd put our effort in developing predictive preclinical models for human response, we may already have a solution to the problem.
This is my first post here. I could write much more about the topic. For now it's more than enough.
Simply put,
Phalloplasty is an elective procedure and comparing it to the types of medicines & studies you've mentioned is an apples & oranges comparison. Getting R&D for an elective procedure (animal studies or not), especially one with such a poor track record (historically) is easier said than done.
Again, in over-simplified terms, a mix between a persistent stigma in aesthetic medicine, a historically poor track record (both past physicians & procedures), and limited R&D funds to go around, you'll need to pitch something that has considerably more promise than the current options today (i.e.
Ligamentolysis).
Imagine trying to go to a University or Research Clinic and expect them to make room for "increasing
Dick size," when there are more pressing matters. To us it may seem pressing, to doctors & scientists, not so much. The few operations in aesthetic medicine to see any R&D are likely going to be female-centered given the booming Beauty industry (e.g. improvements on boob & butt jobs, and so on).
I totally get your sentiment, but there are reasons for the current state of
Phalloplasty. Nice new first post, glad to have you on board!
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