New Heat-Activated Penile Implant Can Bring Back Joy of Sex to Men with ED

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In the past 40 years for the first time, a revolutionary penile implant is on its way to market for erectile dysfunction in men. The efficient device follows a simple technology and is expected to be an optimum solution for every man suffering from erectile dysfunction.

Brian Le, an assistant professor of urology Department of Urology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hopeful that a memory metal, nickel-titanium alloy called nintol, activated with heat can make a better implant option for men facing erectile dysfunction.

The metal has the ability to stay flaccid at the body temperature but it has the ability to "remember" its own expanded shape and return to it when heated.  This is going to be the real "the bionic penis" which can help the men restore their manhood once lost due to an accident, aging or a cancer surgery, as reports News. WSIC.

Brian Le finds patients search for restoring their erectile function for the same reasons that women go for breast plastic implant after a breast cancer surgery. 

Man's survivorship issue is in his manliness. People want to feel complete in their bodies, adds Brian Le. And the number of patients seeking this solution is huge. Starting from the age 40 to 70 men suffer from one sort of erectile dysfunction or another. Drugs like Viagra do not turn out to be a solution for one-third of those.

Another case of a penile implant was reported in Mirror in March this year when a Mohammad Abad, a security guard received a penile implant with an inflatable pump. He had lost his manhood in a road accident when he was a 6-year-old child. But his implant works with a different mechanism than the one Brian Le is hoping to develop.

The inflatable pump is implanted with a surgical process which is tricky. There can occur complications and on spot use is awkward. A malleable device is more popular in developing countries which involve simpler surgery and cheaper, too. But the downside is a permanent err action and tissue damage!

The new heat-activated solution is an exoskeleton of nitinol. This metal is popular for its super-elastic properties and is already used in medical tools for endovascular surgery. It just needs a simple operation to insert the nintol implant. It stays lucid at body temperature but expands in length and girth when heated.

It seems that real sensation and joy of sex life is close to many who have lost it due to an accident, age or surgery