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[[Image:Restoration before after.JPG |thumbnail|right|300px| A human penis circumcised at birth, before and after 42 months of non-surgical restoration.]]
'''Foreskin restoration''' refers to the process of expanding the residual skin on the circumcised [[penis]] in order to recreate the [[foreskin]] which was removed in [[circumcision]]. It can also refer to the process of expanding existing skin in a penis whose foreskin is abnormally short or non-existent (see [[aposthia]]).<ref name="collier2011">{{REFjournal |last=Collier |first=Roger |author-link= |title=Whole again: the practice of foreskin restoration |trans-title= |language= |journal=CMAJ |date=2011 |volume=183 |issue=18 |pages=2092-3 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3255154/ |quote= |pubmedID=3255154 |pubmedCID=22083672 |DOI=10.1503/cmaj.109-4009 |accessdate=}}</ref>
Foreskin restoration can be achieved via surgical and/or non-surgical means. Men take up foreskin restoration to restore [[sensitivity]] to the [[glans penis]] and to restore the [[gliding action]] of the natural penis. Another reason for restoring is a desire to create the natural appearance of an intact penis with the [[foreskin]] covering the [[glans penis]]. Foreskin restoration techniques are most commonly undertaken by men who resent having been [[circumcision|circumcised]] as children, or who have sustained an injury. They are also used by men who simply desire a longer foreskin.