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The ones you fellas recommend like Dr. Clavell, Dr. Hakky, Dr. Eid, etc. If I call one of them tomorrow to get the process started, about how many months from now would my surgery be?

In all likelihood I'd pay cash and not go through insurance, if that makes any difference.

I don't need an implant now, but I will in a few years, so I'm trying to plan ahead.

Thanks in advance!

I can only tell about my experience. My urologist has a full line practice. Meaning he does not specialize in implants. But he does do a lot of them. My first appointment was almost exactly four months out from my phone call. Once I was in the process each appointment wait was less. My memory is a bit hazy but I think my first visit was in early November. As the process went along. There are waiting times for insurance & the availability of a surgery room. Btw, this was towards the end of Covid. Finally he gave 2 or 3 dates to choose from. I think I chose to date that was the longest out for family reasons. He required blood tests not older than 30 days. Of all things I had a low grade bladder infection which I think only required 1 or 2 pills. Then I had to wait 1 week for the antibiotics to clear my body. Plus the lab time. I just made the cutoff before my surgery on May 1. He only does surgeries 1 day a week. I'm pretty sure that my first sugery date to choose from was 3 weeks earlier. So from first appointment to my surgery was 6 months. If I had chosen the first date it would of been a little over 5 months start to end. Some drs operate more times per week than mine. Some don't have other urology work so more time is available for IPP's.

When I had my first surgery with Dr Eid I was scheduled only about 10 days out from the procedure. I also paid cash

After trying and failing with the shots my dr who was Dr. carrion one of the leading and highest volume implanters in the country I was 6 weeks out till my surgery date.

When I called Dr. Hakky's office, I was told 1-2 months.

LastHope wrote:When I called Dr. Hakky's office, I was told 1-2 months.

This was my timeline with him.

Here’s my data point.

I ended up interviewing two surgeons. One at the Scott&White hospital in Temple TX and one at Urology Austin who does his work primarily in the Seton family of hospitals.

This was 2019. At my mid year TRT follow up I discussed an implant w/ my regular urologist, an absolutely great guy named K. Scott Coffield. He was old school-suit & tie underneath his scrubs, very congenial, compassionate, professional in every way. Alas he was in his mid late 70s and no longer did implants. He recommended Erin Bird MD and I got a consult with him in roughly 10 days from date of TRT appointment. We were booked for early Dec 2019.

I needed to get this done before Dec 31st because my wife’s hospitalization for pneumonia had brought us to our catastrophic cap so if I got the surgery before end of year, no co-pay.

Two weeks out a scheduling conflict had me pushed back to March 2020. I got on the phone to Urology Austin and got a consult for Dec 19th. That was 2 days after a hernia repair. Bryan Kansas was the doctor and yeah, I liked him immediately. He booked my surgery for Dec 31st…..12 days after my consult and about a month from my first call to his office.

Kansas isn’t mentioned with the handful of “big name implanters” but he is developing a following. The vast majority of other Dr. Kansas patients I’ve run across on here all give him high marks for a successful outcome. His PA told me he’s pretty tight with Dr. Levine of Chicago and they discuss cases constantly. When Kansas did mine, he’d been implanting 8 or 9 years and had done just over 1000. 5 years later he’s at 1800 so he’s now doing 160-180 implants per year.

He is AMS only and if you must have a Titan he will refer you out. He is on the AMS Center of Excellence list, imo with very good reason. What made the process so damned good was the service after the sale. They didn’t tell me when to come in for follow ups, they asked me how soon I wanted to come in. I was a bit paranoid first few weeks and went in quite often-mainly to get some cycling under supervision and conquer my fear of being able to inflate but not deflate. His PA is top notch.

I was covered by insurance but for self pay patients, assuming the ad is still valid (it’s on internet) he offers an outpatient cash price procedure which is very competitive ($17,300 iirc).

He’s not a big name, yet, but he is definitely a player in this field. I hesitate to steer people to any doctor for fear of steering people wrong….even with great doctors sometimes complications happen to everyone. But if you’re in the zone where AMS is often the better option (average +\- 2”) then yeah, he is worth consulting. He really likes installing LGXs.

So from phone call to book consult to operating room was five weeks.

A revision where the wrong implant was used or a surgery was wasted by grievous under sizing is likely to take more time to examine you, maybe get some imaging, etc .