Stofman Plastic Surgery Group of Pittsburgh

Guy M Stofman, MD, FACS

Mercy Professional Building | 1350 Locust Street, suite G103 | Pittsburgh, PA 15219 | (412) 232-5616

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Summary: Drawing on years of experiences as a reconstructive surgeon who literally puts the damaged genitalia of accident, burn and cancer victims back together, Guy Stofman, M.D., a double-board certified plastic surgeon, offers the labiaplasty procedure. The best news? Labiaplasty requires no hospital stay!

Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon Offers Labiaplasty!  

(Pittsburgh, PA, May 15, 2007) PRWeb.com. The women in the office of Guy Stofman, M.D. may be 18 or they may be 40.

But if they are active, they often have a common complaint: enlarged labia which can be painful when riding horses, bicycles or motorcycles. Sometimes, they just want shorter labia lips for themselves or that special someone.

25-year-old Lilly (not her real name,) a patient of Dr. Stofman is a newly minted nurse. She is typical of many labiaplasty patients because her tissues “down there” were irritated.

Large Labia 

Always very much into dancing, Lilly discovered at 21 that exotic dancing on weekends was an excellent way to pay for her nursing degree. Lilly is now an emergency room nurse, and still dances on weekends while  running four or five miles during the week.

“I had been considering labiaplasty for a while due to the irritated tissues,” Lilly says. “And, they just didn’t look good and caused me some embarrassment.  Had I known the procedure was going to be so easy and so painless, I would have done it years ago.”

Plastic Surgeon 

Dr. Stofman received his plastic surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh, one of a handful of U.S. plastic surgery programs that performed sexual reassignment operations for both genders. He offers labiaplasty at his private practice. When a female is surgically turned into a male, the patient first requires a labiaplasty.

The latest advancements and techniques in labiaplasty surgery can lessen scarring and recovery time. The final results are a lovelier and less annoying vaginal area.

Labiaplasty 

Other women complain that intercourse can cause overly long majora or minora to be painfully drawn inside them. Many other women with the same condition complain of embarrassment while wearing skimpy swimwear or discomfort when wearing workout gear or tight jeans.

 The cause of enlarged labial lips can be due to genetics, hormones, child bearing or a large weight gain.

 “Ten years ago, I did one or two labiaplasties yearly,” says Dr. Stofman. “Currently, I do about two a week. So many women are now in the workplace, I see many patients who are irritated by sitting for long periods of time.”

Thongs, Speedos, leotards and other popular, revealing beach and swim wear can cause additional chaffing.

Labia Reduction 

Several popular trends have made more women acquainted with the look of shortened labia. Moreover, erotic material is more widespread than just a few years ago and rarely shows exotic actresses with enlarged labia so many women want to look like that “down there.”

Another popular trend driving more women to the plastic surgeons for the procedure is extremely shortened -- or no -- pubic hair. Moreover, women’s magazines write about the procedure often. Many just want sculpting of their labia tissues to get a better look for themselves and their sexual partner.

 “With so much media attention, women with enlarged labia now know they are not freaks of nature and that plastic surgeons can do something about it,” Dr. Stofman says.

 Dr. Stofman once studied his patients’ self-image and sexual satisfaction levels, before and after plastic surgery procedures and reported the results in a 2006 issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal. Results? The subjects’ reported increased self-confidence and sexual satisfaction.

Because Dr. Stofman is on call in Pittsburgh for severe trauma or burns to the genitalia, Dr. Stofman routinely handles complicated cases like one in which a woman was thrown off a motorcycle at 60 miles an hour and landed straddling a guard rail. He also sees cancer patients whose pelvic genitalia must be reconstructed. In addition to his many years of reconstructive experience, Dr. Stofman is chief of plastic surgery at The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

“The most widespread myth is that labiaplasty requires a long hospital stay.” Dr. Stofman says. “It may make your hair stand on end to think of surgery on such delicate tissues but the procedure can be performed in my office under local anesthetics.”

To hold costs down, Dr. Stofman performs labiaplasty in his office -- instead of in a hospital -- for about 30 percent of his patients. The other patients are accommodated in a local hospital with the patient under twilight sedations. Most patients rest for two to three days, post-op.

 “Labiaplasty patients usually return to work in about a week and are able to resume working out and sexual relations in about 14 days,” says Dr. Stofman. “Most are comfortable flying in planes within five to seven days.”

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