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}}</ref> so most healthcare providers have been taught inaccurate data.<ref name="Hill2003"/> Retractability usually occurs much later than previously believed.<ref name="WrightWright1994"/> This page provides accurate data, derived from newer and better studies, for healthcare providers.

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="WrightWright1994"/> <ref>{{REFweb