Although circumcision is the commonest surgical procedure carried out in male neonates using a variety of methods, complications still arise with the use of all the methods. In Africa and much of the Middle East, circumcision is widely practiced mainly for socio-cultural reasons and the rate is almost 100 percent whereas, in Western Europe and North America, circumcision rates have fallen in recent years. Most of the post-circumcision complications referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH are related to the use of the Plastibell ring. Some of these procedures were performed by relatively low-skilled health-workers. Post-circumcision complications are seen more in areas of the world lacking in adequate health-care personnel. The Plastibell ring is popular among mothers in Lagos. Many of them have no knowledge of its falloff time, what constitutes prolonged retention and what harm it can cause. Since both doctors and other health workers widely use the Plastibell ring, it became important to examine ways to reduce the complication rate from the use of this method. This study also aimed to determine the benefits of the early removal of the Plastibell ring, or its ill-effects compared with the traditional delayed fall-off time of the device. It also compared the bleeding rates between subjects who underwent early removal of the Plastibell and a control group whose devices were left to fall off on their own. A total of sixty consecutive male neonates were recruited for this study and all of them underwent circumcision with the Plastibell device. Thirty patients were assigned to the Subject Group, in whom the Plastibell ring was removed by the investigator at 24 hours while the other thirty constituted the Control Group whose Plastibell rings were allowed to fall off on their own. Both were selected by closed balloting. The patients selected were aged between 7 and 28 days, with a mean age of 11.3 ± 5.3 days. The modal age was 8 days with 28 ( 46.7%) babies presenting for circumcision on that day. The age, weight and PCV of both the subjects and controls were comparable. There was minor haemorrhage in 3 of the 30 Subjects and in 1 of the 30 Controls (P = 0.3006). Similarly, wound infection rates were comparable between both groups with only 1 wound being infected among the Controls and none among the Subjects (P=1). In both groups, reported discomfort from circumcision was incomparable as there was no reliable, complete data. The mean duration of complete wound healing was 6.2 ± 0.8 days in the Subject Group and 9.4 ± 1.7 days in the Control Group (p<0.005). The mean duration of wound healing was 7.8 ± 2.1 in the entire study group so that it took a significantly longer number of days to achieve complete wound healing in the Control Group. The fall-off time of the Plastibell ring in the Control Group ranged from 1-7 days with a mean of 4.6 ± 1.6 days. The modal day was Day 6 when 11 of the Plastibell rings fell off. This was statistically significantly prolonged when compared with the 1 day in which the devices in the Subject Group were removed. In conclusion, early removal of the Plastibell at twenty-four hours following circumcision was not attended by any significant haemorrhage, infection or discomfort. Rather, it appeared to promote wound healing. These findings remain to be validated in a wider study. It is hereby recommended from this study that the Plastibell circumcision ring could be removed twenty-four hours after circumcision without significant complications.