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Some doctors recommend [[Adolescent and adult circumcision| 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 [http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/ 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. Stretching is not complete until the foreskin will [[Gliding action| glide smoothly back and forth ]] while the penis is in a state of [[erection]].
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