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}}</ref> therefore the use of the word ''potential'' means the medical benefits discussed do not actually exist. The use of the word ''potential'' may be misleading to parents.
This statement acknowledged that infants feel [[pain]] but minimized the effects of pain and declined to recommend the use of analgesia or anesthesia for foreskin [[amputation]].<ref name="aap1989"/>
Based on methodologically flawed studies by circumcision promoter [[Thomas E. Wiswell]], the statement falsely claimed a reduction in the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) could be obtained by non-therapeutic infant circumcision.<ref name="aap1989"/>
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}}</ref> Non-therapeutic circumcision of children, however, is performed only on healthy children who can withstand the [[pain]], trauma, and stress of the [[amputation]].
===Fourth policy (1999)===