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|last=Zöllner

|first=Alexander M.

|author-link=

|last2=Tepole

|last3=Kuhl

|title=On the biomechanics and mechanobiology of growing skin

|journal=Theoretical Biology

|date=2012

Tissue expansion by manual stretching effectively widens the [[foreskin]] to treat [[phimosis]] or [[paraphimosis]].<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Dunn

|author-link=

|etal=no

|journal=Aust N Z J Surg

|location=

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|last=Beaugé

|title=The causes of adolescent phimosis

|journal=Br J Sex Med

Tissue expansion has also been used for the technique of non-surgical [[foreskin restoration]], which applies tension externally using specialized devices and/or manual stretching to replace circumcised tissues with newly expanded residual shaft skin.<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Radovan

|author-link=

|title=Tissue expansion in soft-tissue reconstruction

|last=Collier

|first=Roger

|author-link=

|title=Whole again: the practice of foreskin restoration