With the increasing maturity of our penile curvature correction surgery technology and the increase of successful cases, more and more patients come to our hospital for surgical treatment of penile curvature. With almost all the patients with penile curvature in our department being operated by me, more and more patients are asking about penile curvature, including whether they should have surgery, when is the best time to have surgery, whether penile curvature will endanger their own or their spouse’s health, whether there is any risk of surgery, what negative effects there will be if they are not treated, and so on. Looking at the many patients with penile curvature suffering from physical and mental pain, and looking at the patients who had undergone penile curvature correction surgery and had to go to our hospital to receive surgery again after recurrence, my heart was overwhelmed and I felt obliged to explain the relevant contents to the patients so that the patients can take less detours, get the correct treatment in time, get rid of the disease as soon as possible and save medical expenses. The following is an introduction to what penile curvature is, the dangers of penile curvature, when surgery is needed, the risks of surgery, post-operative precautions, and other content. 1.What is penile curvature? As the name implies, in the erect state penis up, down or lateral and any single direction, or combined with 2 directional bending is called penile curvature. 2.What are the causes of penile curvature? (1) congenital hypospadias or supraurethral cleft, abnormal development of the urethral corpus cavernosum or lack of urethral corpus cavernosum, as well as abnormal fibrous bands lead to downward or upward curvature of the penis when erect; (2) foreskin ties are too short or uneven development of penile skin, pulling the penis when erect causing curvature; (3) penile corpus cavernosum sclerosis, not only cause penile curvature, but also cause erection pain and sexual dysfunction; (4) penis (4) abnormal development of the white membrane of the penis, due to uneven development of the white membrane of the penis, one side is too tight, one side is too loose, resulting in upward, downward or lateral bending of the penis. (5) penile trauma, masturbation or excessive force during sex, improper sexual position, resulting in penile injury and rupture of the white membrane, later forming crazy marks, resulting in penile curvature. In addition, bad habits, such as wearing tight underwear so that the penis long-term to the side of the skew. 3, what are the hazards of penis curvature? (1) penis curvature deformity although in male external genital deformity is relatively rare, but easy to cause erection pain; In addition, when the bending angle is greater than 20 degrees, resulting in difficulties in sexual intercourse, or even can not be inserted, even if inserted will continue to stimulate a local part of the vagina and very easy to cause female dissatisfaction, resulting in patients and spouses to reduce the quality of life. (2) In addition to affecting sexual life, penis curvature can also cause psychological burden, patients due to penis curvature and failure of sexual life after the fear of sex, psychological inferiority complex, and over time, symptoms such as erectile dysfunction of the penis. Some patients do not even try the state of sex life has been the fear of failure of sex life or fear of sex life, low self-esteem and afraid to interact with the opposite sex and other psychological problems. 4.When does penile curvature need to be treated? How to treat? (1) the penis curvature, there is no effective drugs can be treated, so when the penis curvature stable more than 6 to 9 months and any of the following conditions need to be surgically corrected: bending angle greater than 30 degrees affects the appearance, penis curvature and sexual intercourse difficulties, sexual intercourse but the female partner is not satisfied with the situation. (2) the angle of penis curvature is less than 30 degrees, does not affect sexual life, the patient himself and his spouse no discomfort when no treatment. 5.What are the surgical methods of penile curvature? At present, the most effective international surgical treatment of penile curvature are two. The first is, when the penis is long enough to use the “16-point method” to fold and sew the white membrane of the penis from the curved projection to correct the curvature; the second is, when the length of the penis is small to use the patch to repair the curved part, without affecting the length of the penis under the premise of correction of the curvature. Both surgical methods have their strict indications and advantages and disadvantages, should be based on the specific circumstances of the patient to choose the specific surgery. 6.What are the risks of penile curvature surgery? At present, we do penile curvature correction from the surgical technique has been very mature, no special risks, only anesthesia accident, incision infection and other surgeries have the risk, and from the previous surgical experience, no very serious complications. 7.What do patients need to pay attention to after penile bending surgery? (1) oral antibiotics for 3-4 days after surgery to prevent infection; (2) remove the penile incision dressing 2-4 days after surgery and change the medication once; after that, change the medication every 2-3 days according to the local situation; (3) moderate pressure bandage on the penis for 2 weeks after surgery to avoid swelling; (4) avoid showering for 1 week and avoid sexual life (including sexual intercourse and masturbation) for 2 months; (5) do not randomly perform red light, microwave, ultrashort wave and other treatments after surgery. microwave, ultra-short wave and other treatments to avoid penile necrosis.