What The Heck Is Alloderm?
Well, etymologically speaking it’s a union of the Greek words allos, meaning “other” and dermos meaning “skin.” But you don’t care about that. AlloDerm is a trademark name for a patented process and product developed by biotech firm LifeCell. Technically, AlloDerm is Acellular human cadaveric dermis. In plain language, it’s processed skin from the body of a dead guy (or gal). Now, I know what you’re thinking. Yuck! You’re probably also wondering how it is that you can sew another guy’s dead skin into your dick and not have it be rejected. The answer to this is that all living components of the tissue (cells, viruses, bacteria) are removed in a specially patented process. What exactly that process is I can’t tell you because LifeCell is stingy on details. But isn’t tissue made up of cells? Well, yes, but it’s also made of a bunch of other stuff including collagen fibers, elastin filaments and other protein derived structures that support the cells. Without them we’d just be blobs of ick
