Listening to the patient and allowing him to see work in progress
Saturday, June 7th, 2008When is a circumcision cosmetically performed. Well for one the detail and match up has to be right on. We don’t want to see puckers when large suture, like howser for mooring a ship, are used every 3rd to 4th space when smaller sutures could have been used. Surely, we don’t want to see residual pin hopes and ghost lines, which are tell tale signs of an adult circumcision. The skin should be not so loose it is draping over the rim of the penis or so tight it is tenting the pubic skin during erection or causing a penile scrotal web (turkey neck).
That part’s not supposed to go in the vagina and of course detracts from perceived length. Is you doctor attentive to you precise requests and giving you good eye contact and pre-marking you with your approval and allowing you to watch work in progress with a hand held mirror to be absolutely sure, it is being done your way.
Harold M. Reed, M.D.