Alternative vaginal construction methods

[Megan.]

Medical science has thrown up a few new and novel techniques that might be applied for transwomen seeking a vaginoplasty.

Any thoughts on this one?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/woman-born-without-a-vagina-has-one-created-using-fish-skin-in-rare-operation/news-story/d28f73c491a7a895dba616cc7337b2ee

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[Devlyn]

Sounds fishy to me...<running away> 

[Megan.]

Sounds fishy to me...<running away>  [emoji23]

For cods sake, behave or eels!

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[Megan.]

Fish jokes aside, between this and the use of lab grown organs for a similar use, it does feel that after decades of really very little choice of surgical options, new and possibly better ones may not be far over the horizon.

To follow on from my OP,  would any here be happy to be an 'early adopter' of one of these new technologies or techniques?

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[AnneK]

That certainly sounds promising. Is dilating required?

[Megan.]

That certainly sounds promising. Is dilating required?

Unsure, but as the new cells form around the stent, I'd guess either or no or little...

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[AnneK]

Unsure, but as the new cells form around the stent, I'd guess either or no or little...

I also got the impression it was a lot less involved than traditional full depth methods.  Perhaps this may become an alternative to cosmetic GRS too.  A significantly easier recovery and maintenance might push some that way.

[Maria77]

This seems like it would be an exceptionally useful method of adding depth for us. 

[Dena]

Because they kill off every form of infection in the skin, the skin would have to be dead as well. I don't think it contributes stem cells but instead acts as a scaffold for the body to build new tissue on. The scaffold approach is a trick the body often uses to heal injuries and it sounds like they found another approach to creating one.

[chinee]

like I cannot imagine myself having a tilapia fish skin inside me... would it have a sense of feeling? >_<

[Megan.]

It just provides a scaffold for your own cells to colonise, so after a fairly short while its you, not fish [emoji4].
I'm guessing this approach would eliminate the risk of vaginal hairs though, which is a personal concern of mine having read some others experiences with that.

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[Dani]

Ladies, before we get too excited, consider the source of this report.

I would like to see similar reports in respected medical journals, not from a daily newspaper noted for it's page three photos.

[AnonyMs]

Here's the same report, more or less, from a Brazilian government site

http://www.ebserh.gov.br/web/meac-ufc/noticia-destaque1/-/asset_publisher/mUhqpXBVQ6gZ/content/id/2829173/2018-02-pesquisa-obtem-sucesso-no-uso-de-pele-de-tilapia-para-reconstrucao-vaginal

[Devlyn]

A different, earlier case.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579150/