The Florida teen wanted the procedure because his unusually large size – eight inches in length and a circumference of ten inches, was making him miserable.
Doctors described the young man’s penis as being in the shape of an American football.
He’s thought to be the first person in the country to undergo penis reduction surgery. The teenager requested the operation after his penis grew too large, and he even had trouble putting his pants on.
The teenager had also suffered from several bouts of priapism — an unwanted erection — that left his penis bloated and misshapen.
"His penis had inflated like a balloon," his surgeon, Dr. Rafael Carrión told The Daily Mail newspaper.
Dr. Carrión and his team looked at the medical literature but couldn't find any precedent for what to do.
"Lord knows there's a global race on how to make it longer and thicker in plastic surgery circles, but very little on how to make it smaller," he said.
The surgeons sliced along an old circumcision scar, unwrapped the skin of the penis, and cut out two segments of tissue from either side. Dr. Carrión described it as doing two tummy tucks.
The teenager spent just two days in hospital before returning home, apparently 'ecstatic' with his new penis.
"It's slightly longer and slightly thicker than the average male, but now it looks symmetrical, and the patient was very satisfied," he said.
The teen now has no problem having normal erections and has full sensation.
"It looks cosmetically appealing, and he said it was a life-changing event, he's all smiles," Carrión said.
