“…Penile prosthetic surgery is not particularly invasive but, given the critical and specific nature of erectile function, must produce a result which the patient finds both aesthetically and functionally acceptable (1,2) One of the most common and feared complications is infection, considered the worst complication in prosthetic surgery (3) and difficult to eradicate with common antibiotic therapy (4,5).The formation of an avascular biofilm (6,7) surrounding the prosthesis can harbor bacteria and inhibit the action of antibiotics and macrophages that would otherwise eliminate them; this almost always requires the implant's removal (8) due to the risk of generalized systemic infection.…”