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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]]).

'''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.

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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]]).
+'''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.