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From a medical standpoint, an otherwise symptom-free [[phimosis]], even after dissolution of preputial adhesions, does not require any treatment before the child enters puberty. The widespread notion that full retractability has to be achieved by a certain age, derives from obsolete assumptions and studies which only covered children's development until they entered school, but not beyond that point.
Even though the data from [[Jakob Øster]]'s studies have been known for 54 yearsmore than half a century,<ref name="Øster1968">{{OesterJ 1968}}</ref> some check lists for school doctors‘ examinations still erroneously refer to physiological phimosis as an abnormality.
In most cases, only watchful waiting is necessary, not surgery or other treatment. Parental reassurance is the only treatment required.<ref name="shahid2012" />
|DOI=
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}}</ref> Most of the rest develop a retractable [[foreskin]] in their teenage years.<ref name="Øster1968"/> About An estimated two percent of adult males live with a non-retractable [[foreskin]].<ref name="shahid2012" />
If treatment is elected, the application of topical steroid ointment to assist manual [[stretching]] is the most cost-effective treatment.<ref name="vanhowe1998">{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Some men seem to prefer the protection and sensation that the non-retractile foreskin provides.
Many men can have sex, father children, and live happily with a non-retractile foreskin.<ref name="young">{{REFweb
* [[Frenulum breve]]
* [[Issues with American urologists and the practice of male circumcision]]
* [[Longer foreskin is favored]]
* [[Mitosis]]
* [[Paraphimosis]]
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pro_Male_Collective/comments/1nrhivj/phimosis_is_not_a_justification_to_circumcise_the/
|title=Phimosis is not a justification to circumcise the penis
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[[Category:Foreskinned life]]
[[Category:Medicine]]
[[Category:Penile disorder]]