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The widening of the foreskin also depends on age. A child's foreskin may be too tight to be retracted all the way past the glans, even though it has already completely separated from the glans. This early foreskin tightness ([[phimosis]]) is a normal stage of development and vanishes with increasing age in most boys.
A study by the Danish paediatrician and school doctor, Jakob Øster, of 9,545 examinations of pupils, published in 1968, led to the following results<ref>{{REFjournal | last=Øster | first=J. [https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/43/228/200.full.pdf | coauthors= |title=Further fate of the foreskin: incidence of preputial adhesions, phimosis, and smegma among Danish schoolboys]. '' | journal=Arch Dis Child'' 1968; | volume=43 | issue= | pages=200-203 | url=https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/43/228/200-3.full.pdf | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=1968 | accessdate=}}</ref>:
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'''''Classification according to Øster:'''''
''[[phimosis]]: Foreskin tightness prohibiting retraction''