Tattooing is an ancient art of adorning the body with colorful permanent pigments. A design is made in the skin by puncturing it with needles and injecting ink and dyes into the deep layer of the skin.
The need for tattoo removal is also as old as the art of tattooing. In the old days lemon juice, limestone and hot coal were applied to tattoos to make them indiscernible.
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Tattoo removal is a procedure that is done to remove an unwanted tattoo or a part of a tattoo.
Just as tattooing has evolved from hand needling to advanced tattoo guns, tattoo removal has also evolved to lasers and such equipment.
Common methods of tattoo removal are laser surgery, surgical removal and dermabrasion.
Laser tattoo removal is the most common method of tattoo removal today. We use lasers to break up the tattoo ink particles into smaller pieces that can be removed by the immune system.
Dermabrasion is a surgical method of tattoo removal. In this method we use a medical tool called dermabrader to remove the outer layers of the skin. The ink particles are also removed along with the skin cells.
Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) peels can also be used to remove tattoos. We apply TCA to the skin and remove the outer layers of the skin as well as the tattoo ink.
We can also remove tattoos by simply cutting out the skin that contains the tattoo. This tattoo removal surgery is for small tattoos. This cosmetic surgery is also performed at our state of art surgery center.
When the laser beam of a certain wavelength is flashed on the tattoo, it is absorbed by the tattoo ink. This immediately shatters the ink in the tattoo. The ink is then naturally cleared by your body circulation.
We use different wavelengths of laser light to treat different colors of ink in your tattoo.
Laser tattoo removal in Indian skin is most commonly done with the Q switched Nd:Yag laser. For best results the Q switched lasers should have both wavelengths i.e. 1064 nm to treat the darker colors and 532 nm to treat the lighter colors.