Hi all,
have any of you heard of some SRS surgeons recommending stretching of the scrotal/penile skin in advance to get more material for SRS? As far as I know, stretching of the donor skin is sometimes performed in advance when a patient (I don't mean SRS now... just surgery in general) is going to need a skin transplant/graft. It is done by a stretching device attached to the donor site (e.g., the forearm) that stretches the skin for some weeks before the graft is harvested.
The idea behind this technique is that skin responds to stretching by growing. When a persons gains weight, they not only grow fat tissue, but new skin as well.
Given the fact that for many SRS patients, the amount of penile/scrotal skin limits the achievable depth of the neovagina, I wonder why I have never heard of this technique...
