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→Non-retractable foreskin of infancy and childhood: Wikify.
}}</ref> Most of the rest develop a retractable foreskin in their teenage years.<ref name="Øster1968"/> About two percent of adult males live with a non-retractable foreskin.<ref name="shahid2012" />
If treatment is deemed necessary, the application of topical steroid ointment to assist manual stretching is the most cost-effective treatment.<ref name="vanhowe1998">{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|first=Robert S.
}}</ref>
Teen [[intact ]] boys with a non-retractable [[foreskin ]] may benefit by manual [[stretching]].<ref name="beauge1997" />
==Treatment options==