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Last updated: 02/17/2009
Medication (sildenafil citrate [Viagra]) is useful for some men with erectile dysfunction. The medication must be prescribed and monitored by a physician.
Impotence caused psychological factors can usually be treated with appropriate counseling...
and therapy.
Creams are available for purchase. Most experts agree that these cannot reverse physiological impotence.
Most experts consider mechanical rings that prevent blood flow out of a penis to be dangerous, and advise against their use.
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A penile prosthesis is a medical device implanted in a penis during a surgical procedure to enable an erection for satisfactory and satisfying sexual intercourse. The device is not used only in men with organic or treatment-resistant psychogenic impotence who fail to achieve and maintain an erection using erectile dysfunction drugs. A penile prosthesis is also used in the final stage of plastic surgery phalloplasty to complete female to male (transman) gender reassignment surgery as well as during total phalloplasty for adult and child patients that need male genital modification because of congenital anomalies, iatrogenic, accidental or intentional penile trauma, and micropenis.
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