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,wikify Christopher J. Cold
{{Box|Boxtext=<big><b>However, none of the above three procedures totally eliminate pain. A baby boy will still experience some pain despite any of those analgesic procedures. Prevention of pain requires protecting a boy from elective neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision. Only boys who are protected from the medically unnecessary circumcision surgery experience no pain or trauma.</b></big>}}
Wallerstein (1985) and Van Howe & Cold (1998) have suggested that it would be better to abandon the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision because of the pain associated with it.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wallerstein
|first=Edward
|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-07-0
}}</ref>and Van Howe & Cold (1998)<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|first=Robert S.
|author-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|last2=Cold
|first2=ChristopherJ. |init2=CJ |author2-link=Christopher J. Cold
|etal=no
|title=Local Anesthesia For Infants Undergoing Circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|location=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-07-08
}}</ref>have suggested that it would be better to abandon the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision because of the pain associated with it.
==Attitudes and practices regarding analgesia for newborn circumcision==
* Neuromas may form at the [[circumcision scar]]. Cold & Taylor (1999) reported that they are "notorious for generating pain.".<ref name="cold-taylor1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Cold
|firstinit=C.J.CJ |author-link=Christopher J. Cold
|last2=Taylor
|first2init2=J.R.JR
|author2-link=John R. Taylor
|title=The prepuce