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→Medical indications and therapies: update years.
From a medical standpoint, an otherwise symptom-free [[phimosis]], even after dissolution of preputial adhesions, does not require any treatment before the child enters puberty. The widespread notion that full retractability has to be achieved by a certain age, derives from obsolete assumptions and studies which only covered children's development until they entered school, but not beyond that point.
Even though the data from Jakob Øster's studies (see above) have been known for 45 51 years, some check lists for school doctors‘ examinations still erroneously refer to physiological phimosis as an abnormality.
==== Manual stretching ====