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Education concerning proper care and development of the prepuce is the most effective way of preventing paraphimosis from occurring. Parents, doctors, and other caretakers should be instructed to never [[forced retraction|forcibly retract]] a boy's foreskin. In older males, the forcible retraction of a narrow foreskin should be avoided.<ref name="Reynard" /> The foreskin should be returned to the forward position after cleaning or sexual intercourse.<ref name="Choe">Choe JM. [http://www.aafp.org/afp/20001215/2623.html Paraphimosis: current treatment options]. ''Am Fam Physician'' 2000;62:2623-28.</ref> <ref name="Berk"/>
Some doctors recommend circumcision as prevention, but there is no evidence in the medical literature to support this recommendation. Furthermore, this sacrifices the prepuce, where patients may seek to preserve its [http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/ function ] and value, and protection of the individual from unnecessarily radical surgery is always a doctor's prerogative.
Manual [[stretching]] of the tight tip of the [[foreskin]] to widen the narrow part will prevent recurrence of paraphimosis.
* [[Tissue expansion]]
* [[Stretching]]
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