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No bandage is required, allowing easy monitoring for infection.
Healing occurs while the edges of the [[prepuce ]] are secured in the ring, making [[skin bridge]]s (where the foreskin's end heals to the glans' corona) unlikely.
Cosmetically, there will be little to no [[circumcision scar]], though as usual with any circumcision, there will be a color change where the (formerly) inner and outer layers of foreskin meet.
==Disadvantages==
The ring must fall off before final healing can occur. Rarely, the tip of the [[glans ]] may protrude through the ring and become swollen, trapping the ring in place. Blood transfusion risk is 1 in 30,000 procedures (Wiswell).
One study of 2000 Plastibell circumcisions found a complication rate of 1.8%.<ref>{{REFjournal
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The [[foreskin ]] must be slit and forced from the glans to allow entry for the plastic dome.
Furthermore, because convalescence depends on a (temporarily) affixed medical device, risks of [[infection ]] or [[bleeding| hemorrhage ]] due to the bell slipping or otherwise failing are greater<ref>{{REFnews
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