How Tattoo Removal Works ?

Question

Now, a mere seven years later, I have a terrific job in banking, still one of the more conservative businesses around, and I am concerned that my symbol of youthful self-expression could create problems in my new career.
How Tattoo Removal Works ? Will it look like burn skin ?

Answer 1

What Methods Are Used for Tattoo Removal?
Before lasers became popular for tattoo removal starting in the late 1980s, removal involved the use of one or more of these often-painful, often scar-inducing surgeries:

* Dermabrasion, where skin is "sanded" to remove the surface and middle layers;

*Cryosurgery, where the area is frozen prior to its removal;
Excision, where the dermatologic surgeon removes the tattoo with a scalpel and closes the wound with stitches (In some cases involving large tattoos, a skin graft from another part of the body may be necessary.).

Although the procedures above are still used in certain cases today, lasers (Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation) have become the standard treatment for tattoo removal because they offer a bloodless, low risk, effective alternative with minimal side effects. Each procedure is done on an outpatient basis in a single or series of visits. Patients may or may not require topical or local anesthesia.

Answer 2

Have a look here

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Tattoo_removal

for a summary. Basically, you can either have tattoos surgically removed, or lasered off. I don't know a lot about the former. As far as laser removal goes, it's painful, expensive, and takes a long time.

My housemate had her tattoo removed in this way. The tattoo was maybe 3 inches tall, and took at least 15 treatments (about 4-6 weeks apart) at a cost of £60-80 a time. Overall she spent over £1000 having it removed (probably 20 times what the tattoo cost in the first place!). After each treatment her skin would come up in blisters, and then these would go scabby. Once the skin had healed she'd go back for the next treatment. The final result is pretty good, but the skin is slightly bumpy and uneven, and in certain lights you can see a sort of pinkish silhouette where the tattoo used to be.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Home Based Tattoo Removal

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It has been my personal opinion over the years that the laser removal places are making way too much money off the tattoo community.

I say this because they schedule the appointments too close together. Even six weeks is too soon for another treatment. The tattoo will still go through changes on its own for a long time after the treatment. People are in a hurry, so by scheduling them so close together, there is a sense of accomplishment. Whatever.

I would wait at least three months in between each treatment and I would put money on it that you would get the same results had you had twice as many treatments over that time period.

I have a colleague who had a client that had only one laser treatment and her tattoo was nearly gone after a year of just letting it "be."

The fewer treatments, the less likelihood of scarring and hypopigmentation (loss of normal skin tone color.)

Answer 6

For tattoo removal, now has advance laser surgery. It looks more like scare than a burn skin. I can recomond u some local doctors if u'd like.

Answer 7

Nope- it actually bleeds and oozes and you'll have to wear a bandage. But after it heals you can't even tell you had anything done. It takes a few Lazer treatments before the tattoo is gone.

Answer 8

they get a knife and cut the tattoo off and then they do a skin graft from ur bum