Tattoo Removal
If you have a tattoo, you're not alone. An estimated 20 million Americans do,
If you want it removed, you're also not alone, About half of those with tattoos
report they would now like their tattoo to disappear but without a disfiguring
scar left in its wake, Laser technology has made great strides in eliminating
tattoos, so this may be a good time to seriously consider tattoo removal.
Everything
from small, single-color tattoos to large, multicolored ones can now be significantly
faded, if not completely erased, by the beams of light that new, special lasers
produce And, as importantly there is little risk of the scarring or loss of pigmentation
that other lasers and technologies can cause.
In the past, if you had a tattoo, you had it for life. Then along came dermabrasion cryosurgery, and other techniques, and tattoos could be removed, but they left a scar or a visible while, unpigmented area.
A laser produces a beam of highly concentrated light. Different types of lasers produce different colors of light. The color of light produced by a particular laser is the key to the laser's effect on tattoo ink
Particular colors of light are absorbed by specific colors of tattoo ink; for example, green light is absorbed by red ink The laser's light energy vaporizes or fragments the targeted ink. The body then absorbs the tiny particles of ink, and the color fades.
Removing a small tattoo of one color may take one or two multicolored tattoos may lake several sessions depending on their size and type of ink. Sessions are usually spaced 4 - 8 weeks apart and are performed in the doctor's office without the costs and risks of hospitalization or general anesthesia.
The laser treatment itself feels like numerous snaps with a rubber band. Most patients do not require anesthesia during the Procedure, Topical or local anesthesia is Provided for who do.
The appearance of the treated area immediately after a laser session will vary from patient to patient depending on the extent of treatment immediate after-effects may Include redness, light crusting, or tenderness all of which disappear in a short time, your physician will be happy to tell you more about your treatment and what you can expect.
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