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→Avoidance of premature retraction: add link.
== Avoidance of premature retraction ==
Care-givers and healthcare providers must be careful to avoid [[forced retraction|premature retraction]] of the foreskin, which is contrary to medical recommendations, painful, traumatic, tears the attachment points (synechiae), may cause infection, is likely to generate medico-legal problems, and may cause paraphimosis, with the tight foreskin acting like a tourniquet. The first person to retract the boy’s foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright"/> <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingforcibleretraction.org/ |title=Doctors Opposing Forcible Retraction |trans-title= |language= |last= |first= |publisher= |website=Doctors Opposing Forcible retraction |date=2019 |accessdate=2019-10-02 |format= |quote=}}</ref>
== Making the foreskin retractable ==