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}}</ref> One should understand that ''potential'' means to be '''Capable [c]apable of being but not yet in existence; latent or undeveloped''',<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> therefore the use of the word ''potential'' means the medical benefits discussed do not actually exist. The use of the word ''potential'' may be misleading to parents.
This statement acknowledged that infants feel [[pain]] but minimized the effects of pain and declined to recommend the use on of analgesia or anesthesia for foreskin amputation.<ref name="aap1999" />
Based on methodologically flawed studies by circumcision promoter [[Thomas E. Wiswell]], the statement falsely claimed a reduction in the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) could be obtained by non-therapeutic infant circumcision.<ref name="aap1999" />