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}}</ref> The topical anaesthetic only serves to numb the area to lessen the pain of the injection, but studies have shown that a dorsal penile ring block is not always effective in stopping the pain of circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Taeusch | first=H . William | coauthorsfirst2=Alma M . |last2=Martinez, |first3=J . Colin |last3=Partridge, |first4=Susan |last4=Sniderman, |first5=Jennifer |last5=Armstrong-Wells, |first6=Elena |last6=Fuentes-Afflick | title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Circumcision | journal=Journal of Perinatology | volume=22 | issue=3 | pages=214-218 | url=http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/v22/n3/full/7210653a.html | quote=...more than half of the study group had what we considered excessive pain/discomfort over the course of the entire procedure. | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=April/May 2002 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref><ref name='Clinical Pediatrics August 1986'>{{REFjournal
| last=Williamson | first=Paul S. | coauthorsfirst2=Nolan Donovan |last2=Evans | title=Neonatal Cortisol Response to Circumcision with Anesthesia | journal=Clinical Pediatrics | volume=25 | issue=8 | pages=412-416 | url=http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/25/8/412.abstract | quote=The adrenal cortisol response to surgery was not significantly reduced by the administration of lidocaine. | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=August 1986 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> During the circumcision, the child is given sugar to "reduce his pain perceptions", but in at least one study, data shows that giving sugar to a child doesn't help to reduce the perception of pain in the child.<ref name='Lancet, The 2010-10-09'>{{REFjournal
| last=Slater | first=Rebeccah | coauthorsfirst2=Laura |last2=Cornelissen, |first3=Lorenzo |last3=Fabrizi, |first4=Debbie |last4=Patten, |first5=Jan |last5=Yoxen, |first6=Alan |last6=Worley, |first7=Stewart |last7=Boyd, |first8=Judith |last8=Meek, |first9=Prof . Maria |last9=Fitzgerald | title=Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants: a randomised controlled trial | journal=Lancet, The | volume=376 | issue=9748 | pages=1225-1232 | url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2961303-7/fulltext | quote=Our data suggest that oral sucrose does not significantly affect activity in neonatal brain or spinal cord nociceptive circuits, and therefore might not be an effective analgesic drug. The ability of sucrose to reduce clinical observational scores after noxious events in newborn infants should not be interpreted as pain relief. | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=2010-10-09 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> Post-operative pain and the pain the child must endure during recovery is hardly, if ever, addressed.
Like, Pollock and Crouse, Buenafe peddles the [[Mogen]] technique (as the "Pollock technique on his website), but what he may not tell parents is that the Mogen clamp has been notorious for glans amputations, even among experienced conductors of circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Taeusch | first=H . William | coauthorsfirst2=Alma M . |last2=Martinez, |first3=J . Colin |last3=Partridge, |first4=Susan |last4=Sniderman, |first5=Jennifer |last5=Armstrong-Wells, |first6=Elena |last6=Fuentes-Afflick | title=Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Circumcision | journal=Journal of Perinatology | volume=22 | issue=3 | pages=214-218 | url=http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/v22/n3/full/7210653a.html | quote=...approximately 10% of the glans of a newborn was amputated (it was reattached surgically) during a Mogen circumcision carried out by two of our most experienced physicians. | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=April/May 2002 | accessdate=2011-04-08
}}</ref> Mogen went out of business<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Tagami