Cosmetic Tattoo Removal
Dermatologists have found that by using lasers, you can remove tattoos from your skin. Usually the way this works is that the laser is designed to produce a type of light energy that goes right for the pigment from the ink in the tattoo. The laser sends short bursts of high powered laser light that gets absorbed by the pigment in the tattoo. These bursts of the laser light breaks up the ink into microscopic particles under your skin. After an area is treated by laser, your body’s immune cells move in to help clear the ink particles. Because of the precise way the laser works, it only targets the tattoo’s pigment, and doesn’t have an effect on the surrounding skin. This is why laser tattoo removal has the best healing and lowest chance of causing scarring compared to other techniques.
The number of treatments you will need depends on the colors, size, the amount of ink and sometimes the depth of ink in your skin. It can vary greatly from person to person because different tattoo inks respond differently to the laser treatment. When you go for treatment, the laser technician will clean the skin that has the tattoo on it, and the area directly around the tattoo. The color of the ink that was used for your tattoo can greatly depend on how many treatments you’ll need and how effective these laser treatments are. Black and red inks respond the best to laser treatments, and are easy to remove through this type of tattoo removal process. Blue, green, orange and purple inks respond less well, so you may need more treatments. Yellow is the hardest ink color to remove via this treatment method and many times does not respond at all.