Some traditional cultural practices assure expected wedding night bleeding, to help preserve the honor of all parties.
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Guideline No. 423: Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and Procedures.
J Obstet Gynaecol Can
February 2022
Toronto, ON.
Objective: To provide Canadian surgeons and other providers who offer female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) and procedures, and their referring practitioners, with evidence-based direction in response to increasing requests for, and availability of, vaginal and vulvar surgeries and procedures that fall outside the traditional realm of medically indicated reconstructions.
Target Population: Women of all ages seeking FGCS or procedures.
Benefits, Harms, And Costs: Health care providers play an important role in educating women about their anatomy and helping them appreciate individual variations.
Surgical revirgination: Four vaginal mucosal flaps for reconstruction of a hymen.
Indian J Plast Surg
October 2015
Department of Plastic Surgery, Sushrut Plastic Surgery Research Center, Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Introduction: Over centuries, virginity has been given social, religious and moral importance. It is widely believed as a state of a female who has never engaged in sexual intercourse, and her hymen is intact. Hymenoplasty for torn hymen is carried out not only for the sake of cultural and religious traditions but also for the social status and interpersonal relationships.
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J Clin Ethics
September 2015
Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, 641 Huntington Ave., 2nd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA.
Some traditional cultural practices assure expected wedding night bleeding, to help preserve the honor of all parties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To provide Canadian gynaecologists with evidence-based direction for female genital cosmetic surgery in response to increasing requests for, and availability of, vaginal and vulvar surgeries that fall well outside the traditional realm of medically-indicated reconstructions.
Evidence: Published literature was retrieved through searches of PubMed or MEDLINE, CINAHL, and The Cochrane Library in 2011 and 2012 using appropriate controlled vocabulary and key words (female genital cosmetic surgery). Results were restricted to systematic reviews, randomized control trials/controlled clinical trials, and observational studies.
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