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Foreskin reconstruction is dividing penis doctors — inside the promises and pitfalls

New York Post·Tracy Swartz·6 months ago
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Every so often, Dr. Laurence Levine fields a phone call from a circumcised man desperate to restore his penis to its original glory.

Levine, a board-certified urologic surgeon in Chicago, said he does a “fair amount of penile cosmetic surgery,” but he doesn’t replace foreskin lost to circumcision.

“A man should be happy … with the appearance of their penis,” Levine, a professor of urology at Rush University Medical Center, told The Post.

There’s a growing movement to reclaim foreskin lost to circumcision, but medical experts are divided as to how to do that — and whether to do it at all.…

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