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Re: phimosis

Written by AJ at 20 Aug 2002 17:12:01:

As an answer to: phimosis written by Joe at 20 Aug 2002 03:42:50:

>To anyone that has an answer,
>in partial circumcision, does the skin have to be sown to the penis (stitches)? in other words, can a person just cut of a little bit of the foreskin and leave it to heal from that?
>joe

A partial circumcision is pretty much the same as standard cirucmcision, though there is less skin removed. Stitches are used to close the "wound" after surgery one the excess/troubled foreskin is cut away. The stitches are generally dissolvable and fall out about 7-10 days after srugery.

Hope this helps.



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