[Excision: the journey of reconstruction].

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a very ancient mutilation practice that still exists today for millions of girls and women around the world. In France, it is illegal. Since twenty-five years, a surgical reconstruction method offered to women who wish to undergo it. They are monitored physiologically, psychologically and socially before, during and after the operation. Interview with Dr. Pierre Foldès, co-founder and president of Women Safe, urological surgeon who invented this surgery.