During this period of time, because students are on vacation, there are many students brought by their parents to see if they need circumcision. Parents have some common questions, which are answered here as follows: 1. What age is better for surgery For adolescent or pre-pubescent boys, the best age for surgery is 11-14 years old. At this age, the child understands and can cooperate with the surgery, and the surgery can be done with local anesthesia. Recently, we have operated on several cases of children aged 7-9 years old, but if the child does not cooperate during the operation, he or she may need to be hospitalized under general anesthesia for the surgery.
2. Which children need surgery? Boys in their teens should consider surgery if they are circumcised, or if they see an obvious narrow ring after the foreskin is turned up, or if they have recurrent inflammation of the foreskin. We have already encountered several cases of glans adhesions caused by prepuce, and it was very difficult to separate the adherent glans from the inner foreskin plate during surgery, with relatively high bleeding, which could have been avoided if the surgery was done early. So still remind parents that for adolescent boys, it is still important to see if there is any of the above. To avoid delaying treatment.
3 , which surgical method is needed There are many methods of circumcision, including conventional circumcision, cuffed circumcision, circumcision ring and foreskin cutter. I now routinely use cuffed circumcision, the advantage of this surgery is that the scope of the foreskin is marked out before the operation, and only the foreskin is peeled off during the operation. However, the disadvantage is that the operation takes about 15 minutes longer than conventional circumcision, and the total operation time is about 40 minutes. Alternatively, circumcision can also be treated with a circumcision machine. The advantage of this surgery is that it takes only 5-10 minutes, and the post-operative effect is also very good.
4, the surgical suture is absorbable thread, no need to remove the suture, the wound healing time after surgery is about 7-10 days.