Foreskin restoration: How would I do this?

[ComfortableInChaos]

Is there any way to do it without having surgery? With the surgery thing, I'd wait till I'm like, 22-23 to do it, but would I have another man's foreskin on my dick?

[TheBionicWorm]

I don't think so. I believe they just get a layer of skin and over the course of months get it to go "there" again. Slowly stretching or something of the like, I've heard it isn't painful at all. Though I've had no firsthand experience of it.

[nklarke]

Non-surgical foreskin restoration, accomplished through tissue expansion, is the more commonly used method. Both the skin of the penile shaft and the mucosal inner lining of the foreskin, if any remains after circumcision, may be expanded.

The skin is pulled forward over the glans, and tension is applied manually, by using weights or elastic straps. In the second two cases a device must be attached to the skin; surgical tape is often used. An example of a device using elastic straps is the T-Tape method, which was developed in the 1990s with the idea of enabling restoration to take place more rapidly. Many specialized foreskin restoration devices (like Dual Tension Restorer shown in the picture) that grip the skin with or without tape are also commercially available. Tension from these devices may be applied by weights or elastic straps, by pushing the skin forward on the penis, or by a combination of these methods.

The amount of tension produced by any method must be adjusted to avoid causing injury, pain or discomfort, and provides a limit on the rate at which new skin can be grown. There is a risk of damaging tissues from the use of excessive tension or applying tension for too long. Websites about foreskin restoration vary in their recommendations, from suggesting a regimen of moderate amounts of tension applied for several hours a day, to recommending periods of higher tension applied for only a few minutes per day, as with manual techniques.

Tissue stretching has long been known to stimulate mitosis, and research shows that regenerated human tissues have the attributes of the original tissue. Unlike conventional skin expansion techniques, however, the process of nonsurgical foreskin restoration may take several years to complete. The time required depends on the amount of skin available to expand, the amount of skin desired in the end, and the regimen of stretching methods used. Patience and dedication are needed; support groups exist to help with these (see External links section). The act of stretching the skin is often described informally as "tugging" in these groups, especially those on the internet.

Results of non-surgical methods vary widely, and depend on such factors as the amount of skin present at the start of the restoration, degree of commitment, technique, and the individual's body. Foreskin restoration only creates the appearance of a natural foreskin; certain parts of the natural foreskin cannot be reformed. In particular, the ridged band, a nerve-bearing tissue structure extending around the penis just inside the tip of the foreskin, which helps to contract the tip of the foreskin so that it remains positioned over the glans, cannot be recreated. Restored foreskins can appear much looser at the tip and some men report difficulty in keeping the glans covered. Surgical "touch-up" procedures exist to reduce the orifice of the restored foreskin, recreating the tightening function of the band of muscle fibers near the tip of the foreskin, though they have not proven successful in every case.A loose effect can also be alleviated by creating increased length, but requires a longer commitment to the restoration program. In addition, several websites claim that the use of O-rings during the restoration program can train the skin to maintain a puckered shape. The circumcision scar becomes covered and invisible as the lengthened shaft skin starts to fold due to increased length and this contributes to the improved more natural appearance.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration

If I were you, I'll pass...

[Hermes]

You almost certainly don't want another man's skin grafted on. Tissue rejection would mean you would have to be on immunosuppressive drugs to stop it being rejected. That is a reasonable compromise for an essential organ like a heart but hardly worth it for a foreskin.

I have no idea what possibilities there would be for a skin graft using your own skin. Although the suggestion is that it is tedious the stretching method above seems the least risky from a medical point of view and therefore to be preferred.

You'd need to know what your reasons are to make sure you are not wasting your time. I am not sure I'd agree that the only effect is cosmetic, or that the result necessarily looks better. Certainly it will look different and, depending on your peers, look more of less like them. Although conformance to how other people look is a really bad argument for circumcision it may be part of why you choose to restore or not. I would agree that it is obviously not possible to put back nerve tissue that has been removed but I am sure I have heard people claim that once the glans becomes protected again it regains some of the sensitivity it lost when exposed though I can't speak from experience.

On a more ethical or political point it seems to me fundamentally wrong for the medical profession to make any money out of restoration given that in my mind that is being paid for an inadequate effort to put right something they have previously been paid to get wrong.

[ashdyn]

The only dependable way is through stretching. I've considered it a bunch of times especially cause they say the younger you are the quicker and more effective it is. The only thing is you have to be extremely dedicated and motivated. There's a blog somewhere online where a 15 year old tracks his progress pretty religiously and it took him a little over 2 years to get where he wanted to be and he barely skipped a day.

So it always comes down to how bad you want it cause you'll have to deal with the struggle of using a device every day even when it won't be easy or comfortable.

[ashdyn]

I just found the link lol

http://adamisrestoring.blogspot.com/