How is hypospadias treated?

How is hypospadias treated?

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Hypospadias is treated with surgery. There are a variety of different techniques that have been developed to advance the hole, elongate the urethra, such that the tip of the urethra known as the meatus or the pee hole is positioned at the tip of the glans. Some of these surgeries are actually quite complex and need to be performed by doctors who specialize in these techniques. Usually it is a pediatric urologist and recontructive surgeons who are best able to perform some of these advanced types of surgeries.