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Because of its location, the ridged band is invariably excised if a male is circumcised.
The late [[John R. Taylor]], MB, Ch.B., MRCPEd, {{FRCPC}}, a British-Canadian pathologist and biomedical researcher who practiced medicine at the [https://www.hsc.mb.ca/ Health Sciences Centre] in Winnipeg, MB, first used the term "ridged band" instead of "wrinkly skin" and described the ridged band at the ''Second International Symposium on Circumcision'', organized by [[NOCIRC]] in San Francisco, 1991, after examining the foreskins of 22 adults obtained at autopsy. The mean age was 37 years, range 22–58. The prepuces were studied grossly and histologically.His research was later published by the ''British Journal of Urology'' in 1996.<ref name="taylor1996">{{TaylorJR LockwoodAP TaylorAJ 1996}}</ref>
==Structure==
[[Image:Ridged band magnified10x.jpeg|thumb|right|271px|Part of a ridged band under 10× magnification. The delicate and highly innervated mucosa features many ridges which increase sensitivity through increased surface area.]]
[[John R. Taylor|Taylor]] described the ridged band as a transversely ridged band of mucosal tissue, located just inside the tip of the foreskin near the mucocutaneous boundary. He characterized the ridged band as intensely vascular and richly innervated, stating that it "contains more [[Meissner's corpuscles]] than does the smooth mucosa", and noted that these tactile corpuscles were found only in the crests of ridges.<ref name="taylor1996">{{TaylorJR LockwoodAP TaylorAJ 1996}}</ref>
==Function==