50% fewer men getting implants now compared to 10 years ago....

[wolfcreek]

ED is increasing but the number of men opting for implants has decreased by half over the last 10 years....

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/23/healt ... sfunction/

[wolfcreek]

Why has the number of men seeking implants decreased by 50% over the past few years? Is it because of the rising cost? fears about dissatisfaction (loss of size/loss of sensitivity/device malfunction/droopy head/etc)? Some other reason?

[RichardTheFrog]

That's good.

I'll be a rarity.

[strongagain]

In my opinion it's the other way around: more and more men get an implant. That story can't be true.

[wolfcreek]

Just hope the two implant manufacturers don't go out of business because of the 50% decrease in the number of men buying their devices. Just in case, now may be a good time to buy a spare implant device and stick it up on a shelf somewhere so that when your current implant breaks you will have one at the ready....

[David_R]

My general policy through the years is if I read something (news, research, etc.) that I haven't heard anywhere else, I always check it out before I consider it to be true.

(As I have pointed out to my 30-something sons, you have to know your source when reading something on the Internet. For example, I could set up a site, say that I have a Ph.D. in hieroglyphics (which I don't, of course), and start offering so-called "translations" of Egyptian stuff, and people would be quoting me.)

[dg_moore]

This sounds fishy to me. Unless I misread the article, it looks like the sample was based on Medicare patients 65 and older. I don't know the incidence of implantation among younger men, but from FT and other sources there seems to be no shortage of implantees a lot younger than 65. If you include that cohort in the study it could be that the statistics would skew the other way.

[Lost Sheep]

It could also be that other, less invasive means of mitigating E,D, are available and being used.

Lost Sheep

[williamb]

[quoteIt could also be that other, less invasive means of mitigating E,D, are available and being used.
Lost Sheep][/quote] That was also my thought, Lost Sheep. Maybe we have better pills, better injections and better knowledge of treatments. But with population growth and information being available to us I find it hard to believe that there are less total implants being done today than 10 years ago.

[OttoHS]

It would be interesting to know how many devices AMS and Coloplast sell each year. That would give a much better picture as to how many men are getting implants. I never have seen those numbers and they likely are trade secrets. But, if anyone knows them or how to find them, I would like to see them.