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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 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.
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