The authors of this article support using steroid creams as a cost-effective alternative to circumcision, but they think that 90% of 3-year-olds are supposed to be retractable! Phimosis is normal at birth and often self-corrects without needing treatment during the first three to four years of life; only 10% of three year old boys have phimosis. onlinelibrary.wiley/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008973.pub2/abstract Their sources for retractibility vs age are from 1949 and 1968! Gairdner 1949 Gairdner D. The fate of the foreskin. A study of circumcision. BMJ 1949;2(4642):1433–7. [MEDLINE: 15408299] Oster 1968 Oster J. Further fate of the foreskin. Incidence of preputial adhesions, phimosis, and smegma among Danish schoolboys. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1968;43(228):200–3. [MEDLINE: 5689532]
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