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Circumcision is not appropriate or necessary to treat [[frenulum breve]]. Patients must be careful when consulting a urologist, because urologists earn an attractive fee from performing a circumcision, so may be quick to recommend inappropriate and unnecessary injurious [[circumcision]] to an unwary patient. | Circumcision is not appropriate or necessary to treat [[frenulum breve]]. Patients must be careful when consulting a urologist, because urologists earn an attractive fee from performing a circumcision, so may be quick to recommend inappropriate and unnecessary injurious [[circumcision]] to an unwary patient. | ||
==Hygiene== | ==Hygiene== | ||
The normal non-retractable foreskin may be easily flushed out with warm water and a rubber-bulb type ear syringe. Excessive washing and the use of soap should be avoided. | The normal non-retractable foreskin may be easily flushed out with warm water and a [https://www.amazon.com/Syringe-Removing-Syringing-Medi-Grade/dp/B0842B1XMR?sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1 rubber-bulb type ear syringe]. Excessive washing and the use of soap should be avoided.<ref name="Birley1991">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Birley | |||
|init=HDL | |||
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|last2=Wasker | |||
|init2=MM | |||
|last3=Luzzi | |||
|init3=GA | |||
|etal=yes | |||
|title=Clinical Features and management of recurrent balanitis; association with atopy and genital washing | |||
|journal=Genitourin Med | |||
|date=1993-10-01 | |||
|volume=69 | |||
|issue=5 | |||
|pages=400-3 | |||
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195128/pdf/genitmed00029-0074.pdf | |||
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|pubmedID=8244363 | |||
|pubmedCID=1195128 | |||
|DOI=10.1136/sti.69.5.400 | |||
|accessdate=2025-12-05 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
==Video== | ==Video== | ||