Novel Surgical Technique Restores Clitoral Sensation Using Buccal Mucosa Graft
Among 23 patients, 90% regained clitoral orgasm after surgery, and eight Dutch hospitals are being trained in the new technique.
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Novel surgical technique restores clitoral sensation using buccal mucosa graft
For women who lose part of their clitoris because of vulvar cancer, a clitoral reconstruction procedure has now been developed for the first time. This comes forty years after the first penile reconstruction surgery. Results in the initial group of patients are encouraging.
Dutch scientists develop clitoral reconstruction 40 years after first penis procedure
Four decades after men, it is now also possible for women to have reconstructive surgery after losing part of their sexual organs to cancer. Researchers at Radboudumc have developed a clitoral reconstruction procedure for women who have lost part of their clitoris because of vulvar cancer, the Nijmegen hospital reported on Thursday. The first penile reconstruction happened in 1987.
Doctors at Radboudumc have succeeded in reconstructing clitorises in such a way that they function fully again and can provide orgasms. This is evident from an initial study in which women were helped after losing part of their clitoris due to vulvar cancer. Of the first 23 women with vulvar cancer who underwent surgery to reconstruct the clitoris, ninety percent were able to experience a clitoral orgasm again after the operation. This occurred …
From now on, the clitoris can be reconstructed in women who lose part of their clitoris due to vulvar cancer. This allows them to retain the ability to experience orgasms. It is remarkable that this is only now possible: penile reconstructions have existed for forty years. This is reported by De Gelderlander. The two...
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