Hypospadias: It can be cured by surgical treatment. 1. Is hypospadias a common condition? Hypospadias is a common congenital malformation in pediatric urology, occurring in about one in every two hundred male births, and has a tendency to run in families. The mother’s use of birth control pills and pregnancy aids during pregnancy may increase the chance of hypospadias. 2. Is it possible to have hypospadias without surgery? Most children with hypospadias cannot urinate standing up or have a normal sex life when they grow up if they are not treated. The classification of hypospadias is based on the location of the urethral opening, which can be located from the head of the penis, along the ventral side of the penis, to the scrotum and perineum. The closer the opening is to the scrotum and perineum, the more severe the hypospadias is, resulting in a short, recurved penis. If it is accompanied by bilateral cryptorchidism, the child is often raised as a girl, resulting in psychological and physical abnormalities. And this kind of hypospadias is also more difficult to correct and treat, and the surgery has to be divided into several times to correct it to be close to normal. 3.Is hypospadias surgery complicated? What are the common complications? The surgery of hypospadias is a very difficult plastic surgery, which requires a very high level of skill and experience of the physician. There are a certain percentage of complications, including urethral fistula (a small opening on the ventral side of the penis through which some urine flows) and urethral stricture (a slow thinning of the urine after surgery and difficulty in urinating). Urethral fistula can be closed with another surgery six months after the surgery; urethral stricture requires a new surgery.