Hi there,

I had a misfortune of cutting my frenulum during intercourse w/o a condom, there was a fair amount of blood and I was fairly shocked. I went to the clinic and urologist there said I had a "frenulum breve" so I two weeks later I had a frenuloplasty. It all went rather well, there wasn't any bleeding at all, and everything went fine, it healed properly. After about 4 weeks I started having sex again, first with condom, then shortly afterwards w/o. First time after the surgery that we didn't use condom something snapped again but it was really minute cut and there wasn't any blood at all. I suspect that it was at the weakest spot after the surgery. So I visited the urologist again who was fairly surprised even more so because (according to him) it healed really well. He said to wait some more and asked if there was sufficient lubrification. To cut things short, a couple of days ago I noticed a small, centimeter in length, white scar where the frenulum used to be which is not elastic as rest of the skin. Is there anyway to stretch this scar tissue to make it more elastic, maybe using a cream or ointment.

Best regards...

It's probably pretty hard to grasp it, so erections may be the only source of stress for that area. Perhaps Paul can advise a preparation.

This is the "exercise" we always suggest for frænulum stretching, and I cannot see why it would apply any less in your case, having a scar in the position of the frænulum.

The outright best treatment for a firm scar, is continuous pressure, leading to the marketing of various "scar gels" for this purpose. Unfortunately, that is not applicable to such a mobile area, so stretching, firm but not painful, as often as possible is the closest you can come.

It remains an interesting question as to whether there is any point in having a frænuloplasty in the first place as while it "loosens" the frænulum, there is no reason to believe the resulting scar will actually be stronger under tension and as not only have I pointed out frequently in this forum in the past but you mention your specialist did also, excess tension on the frænulum does not imply something wrong with the frænulum, but simply means your technique (in general, failure of lubrication) is providing too much stress on the frænulum!

Now, back to the matter of softening scars, a potent or "ultra-potent" steroid can be used to facilitate this; such as betamethasone or triamcinolone 0.05% or even 0.1% if available and preferably in the ointment form, applied only to the point of the scar.

Probably more effective, but rather "fiddly" in this case, would be injection of a similar steroid (Such as "Kenacort-A10®") directly into the scar. Whether you really want to go back to the specialist for more argy-bargy is another matter. We are inclined to wonder whether you would have been at least as well off using that six weeks simply persistently stretching your frænulum!