Gt1956 wrote:Not a simple answer. The material that the cylinders are made of have the potential of limited stretch. The implant companies say it differently but if you get down to the basic meanings. They mean almost the same thing. Yes, American English can be confusing.
Now it gets complicated. Titans are made of very ridgid material. Its ability to stretch either in diameter or length is limited. The stiffness is what makes it the preferred implant for peyronies.
AMS uses 2 different materials. The CX will stretch in the length a little but more in the diameter. The LGX will stretch in both length & diameter. But the AMS implants start at a slightly smaller diameter than the Titan. So in my opinion. The final diameter difference might be small. Also, the tunic tissue that surrounds the implant cylinders has a max amount of stretch in it.
Now lets get more to your question. Logically it would seem that more fluid could maybe result in more length and/or girth. Here is the problem. Think of a car tire. Its empty, as you inflate it more the tire does grow in size. But the belts limit the tires diameter & to an extent the tires girth. All this comes to a limit at some pressure point. Don't ask me what that point is. A popular quoted study shows some Titans & LGX tested to 20psi. Sorry I don't know the metric equivalent. Now here comes a reality check. My dr works closely with AMs, now called Boston Scientific due to a merger. He is even in some of the AMS YouTube videos. I asked him in person about those pressures used in the test. He told me, in person. That most men can only produce around 12psi with the AMS pump. He said that he was able to generate around 13psi. So the amount of stretching shown in that study are not a realistic achievement.
More confusion. I have seen members that have been able to get some very significant girth. But I do not remember a 7 incher. I have a similar problem reaching 6 inch girth. I think that I can get there but its going to be a lot of pumping on my part. I'm pumping so much & so agressive that my dick is tender the next day. About the time the tenderness goes away, its time to pump again.
I guess the easy answer is that implants do not cover all dick sizes very well. All you can do is cycle your implant every day & see what you get after 1 to 1 1/2 years. I have heard that Titans can be ordered in a custom size. Don't know if that is the truth. Not much help if you already have an implant.
Thanks for the info and your personal thoughts. Personally, I think that in 2023 there are no technical limitations to create an implant with cylinders that exactly match the physical characteristics of the patient in terms of both length and circumference, but that the costs for innovation and product development are currently not financially lucrative enough .
If the prevalence of men with erectile prostheses continues to increase worldwide, this financial incentive will probably become stronger and models that are more fitted to the characteristics of the patient will emerge.
For now virtually no developments are taking place: look at Tables 1 and 2 of the article in the link below. Neither AMS nor Coloplast have developed any innovations in the last decade.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4397/3/1/1
Gt1956 wrote:More confusion. I have seen members that have been able to get some very significant girth. But I do not remember a 7 incher. I have a similar problem reaching 6 inch girth. I think that I can get there but its going to be a lot of pumping on my part. I'm pumping so much & so agressive that my dick is tender the next day. About the time the tenderness goes away, its time to pump again.
I am 3 week post-surgery and my present girth is 16 cm (6.3 inch), so I am proof that it is possible to have a girth of over 6 inches with a Coloplast Titan. Time will tell whether my current circumference is also the maximum achievable with the Titan.
Luther wrote:I have no expertise in this field, but could "overfilling" the reservoirs (i.e. deliberately exceed the recommended fill volumes) be a potential solution to increase the circumference of the implanted penis for men with a (naturally) girthier penis, or are the present reservoirs to stiff to accomodate this?
I see I made a typo here: I meant "cylinders".
