Pierre Foldès (6 May 1951, Paris) is a French-Hungarian urological surgeon known for developing a surgical method of repairing some of the damage caused by female genital mutilation.
[3] He discovered the damage caused by female genital mutilation while working in Burkina Faso as a surgeon reparing rectovaginal fistulas which are created by difficult childbirths.
When he went to investigate he found very little in the literature even though there were thousands of academic papers that studied the penis,[3] He developed the technique in collaboration with the urologist Jean-Antoine Robein,[citation needed] of a clitoral restoration surgery.
This technique repairs some of the urologic and obstetric problems related to FGC and it may allow the woman to experience more pleasure during sexual stimulation.
[4] Foldes' procedure consists of the removal of any scar tissue from the vulva, and of the lowering of the clitoris by cutting ligaments that support it while preserving nerves and blood vessels.
[6] Months of healing are required for the women to gain more normal sensation in their newly exposed tissue.