DESCRIPTION OF DORSAL SLIT - by jfm.
If you wish to shorten the dorsal side of the foreskin by 1 inch,
you will make a 1 inch incision, longitudinal from tip of foreskin
towards base of penis. You then retract the skin fully. The "scar/opening"
will be 2 inches long (longitudinal) because when you cut the 1 inch,
you cut both the inner and outer surfaces of the skin covering glans.
Now, you grab both sides of the 2 inch opening at the middle point,
and pull the sides apart. This eventually makes the points you gripped
2 inches apart laterally, while the original 2 end points of the opening
are now against each other halfway between your grab points.
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This makes a much wider foreskin with a "flap" on the
ventral side which was not shortened while the dorsal side was shortened.
In my opinion, this makes aesthetically unpleasing results. However,
if only a minor nick is done (half an inch), the unevenness may not
be so noticeable.
As far as doing multiple nicks to even out the operation, you might
as well do a proper circumcision to remove just the right amount of
skin and get more aesthetic and easier to predict results. The more
nicks you remove, the more scars you will have and the more complications
are possible.
Please note that the additional "nicks" are needed at
the new end points of the scar (which used to be the middle points
of the vertical cut) otherwise there would be a small "fold"
of skin where the scar begin.
So, you end up with a 2 inch "horizontal" scar on the
dorsal side. The dorsal side is 1 inch shorter than the ventral side,
and the skin is 2 inches wider.
Over time, one would expect the skin to shrink some so that it would
not appear so wide and so uneven.
Of course, if you snip less than 1 inch, the unevenness will be
less noticeable.
Personally, I think that the conventional circumcision technique
yields more aesthetic results because it is more evenly cut and when
some foreskin is left, it "fits" the glans much better because
the skin isn't made to be too wide.
jfm |