For many boys this is the first and only time their foreskin will be retracted. Then with the foreskin held tightly back the doctor circumcises the penis. The pain is quick and sharp. Most boys cry out with the pain. Then it is all over.
All foreskin is removed.
The penis is bandaged and the boy told to go swimming regularly over the next few days. In three days or so the bandages fall off of their own accord. There is no suturing. Dorsal slit circumcising used to occur regularly in Tonga. Now it seems that western style circumcision is the norm.