PATIENT RESOURCES
Where Your Surgery Takes Place
Care is coordinated in the Garden City and Mineola area of Long Island. Your surgical location is selected according to the procedure and your medical needs. The team will confirm the facility name, address, arrival time, and whether your care is planned as an outpatient procedure or requires a hospital stay before you travel.
Location: Confirm your assigned surgical facility before making travel reservations.
Regional access: Garden City and Mineola are accessible by the Long Island Rail Road and major Long Island roadways.
Air travel: JFK and LaGuardia are regional options. Allow time for traffic and confirm when it is safe to fly after your procedure.
Where to Stay
Patients traveling for care can look for hotels or extended-stay accommodations in Garden City, Mineola, and nearby communities. Choose lodging near your confirmed surgical location and follow-up office, rather than booking solely by airport proximity. If you anticipate staying several nights, consider elevator access, an accessible bathroom, parking, and space for a caregiver.
Before booking: confirm how long you should remain nearby, whether someone must stay with you, and when follow-up is needed. Choose flexible reservations when possible. The office can help clarify location and timing; accommodations are booked directly by patients.
What to Expect Before & After Surgery
Before surgery, you will receive procedure-specific instructions about testing, medications, fasting, and arrival. Tell the team about travel plans and any support you may need at home. If anesthesia or sedation is planned, arrange an escort and follow the facility’s transportation requirements. Do not plan to drive yourself home.
Recovery varies by procedure. Your care plan will explain activity restrictions, catheter or wound care when needed, follow-up visits, and symptoms that require a call to the team. Patients traveling from a distance should confirm the timing of their first follow-up and clearance to return home before purchasing a return ticket. Written instructions from your clinical team take priority over general website information.
Step-by-step guides for getting ready and recovering. Your own discharge instructions always come first.
Urethroplasty: Before Surgery
What to do in the weeks before urethroplasty: urine testing, medications, smoking, and what to arrange at home for catheter recovery.
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Buccal Graft: Mouth Care After Surgery
How to care for the inside of your cheek after a buccal mucosa graft: eating, rinsing, pain control, and what's normal while it heals.
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Urethroplasty: Recovery and Catheter Care
What to expect after urethroplasty: caring for your catheter, the incision, activity limits, and the steps before the catheter comes out.
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Optilume: Aftercare
What to expect after an Optilume drug-coated balloon treatment for a urethral stricture: catheter, symptoms, and precautions.
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Suprapubic Tube Care
How to care for a suprapubic tube (a catheter through the lower belly): cleaning, bags, tube changes, and what to do if it falls out.
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Penile Implant: Before Surgery
How to prepare for an inflatable penile implant: labs ahead of time, blood sugar and A1c, Hibiclens washes, and what to avoid.
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Penile Implant: Recovery and Learning to Use It
What to expect after an inflatable penile implant: swelling, pain, showering, when you'll learn to inflate it, and when sex is safe.
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Intracavernosal Injection: Home Protocol
Clear step-by-step guide to self-administering penile injection therapy for erectile dysfunction at home, covering injection technique, dose titration, erection timing, and when to seek urgent care for prolonged erection.
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Artificial Urinary Sphincter: Recovery and Activation
What to expect after an artificial urinary sphincter: the healing period with the device off, activation, using the pump, and protecting the device.
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Male Sling: Recovery
What to expect after a male sling for stress leakage: catheter, activity limits while the sling heals in place, and normal symptoms.
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ProACT Balloons: Recovery and Adjustments
What to expect after ProACT balloons for leakage: healing, office adjustments, and protecting the device.
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TURP and Aquablation: Recovery and Catheter Care
What to expect after TURP or Aquablation for an enlarged prostate: catheter, bleeding, urinary symptoms, and activity limits.
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Robotic Simple Prostatectomy: Recovery
What to expect after robotic simple prostatectomy for a very large prostate: hospital stay, catheter, incisions, and activity.
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UroLift: After the Procedure
What to expect after a UroLift procedure: urinary symptoms in the first weeks and returning to normal activity.
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Robotic Pyeloplasty: Recovery and Stent Care
What to expect after robotic pyeloplasty: the internal stent, stent symptoms, removal, and follow-up imaging.
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Ureteral Reimplant: Recovery
What to expect after ureteral reimplantation: catheter, stent, symptoms, and follow-up.
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Vasectomy: Recovery and Semen Test
What to expect after a vasectomy: rest, swelling, return to activity, and the semen test that confirms it worked.
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Scrotoplasty: Recovery
What to expect after scrotal reconstruction: swelling, dressings, support, and activity.
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Circumcision: Recovery
What to expect after adult circumcision: dressing care, swelling, stitches, sensitivity, and when sex is safe.
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Peyronie's Disease: Traction Therapy
How to use a penile traction device for Peyronie's disease, after surgery, or alongside injections, and how to use it safely.
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Penile Plication: Recovery
What to expect after penile plication for curvature: swelling, stitches you can feel, sensation changes, and when sex is safe.
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Retrograde Urethrogram: What to Expect
What happens during a retrograde urethrogram, the X-ray dye test that maps a urethral stricture.
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VCUG: What to Expect
What happens during a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), the X-ray test that shows the bladder and urethra while you urinate.
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