Can All Tattoos Be Removed?
Not all tattoos can be removed completely, but the majority can be partially removed. Tattoos are meant to be permanent and with recent improvements in ink technology and professional tattoo artists improving their skills, tattoos imprinted on in the last decade are very difficult to remove. Even with the best technique, some residual scarring remains in a few cases.
What are other methods of tattoo removal?
There are other methods of tattoo removal, but most of them are painful and ineffective. Today laser therapy has replaced most of them. The other methods include dermabrasion, camouflage and excision of the tattoo. These methods cause a lot more damage to skin and also result in scarring. These techniques are only used when laser is not an option.
Salabrasion: this technique involves physical destruction of the superficial skin with some chemicals, like salt, or a piece of gauze or tissue. This is a poor’s man version of tattoo removal. Very painful and sucks.
Dermabrasion: Dermabrasion is the primary method of mechanical tissue destruction. The skin is scrubbed with various devices ranging from a rapidly spinning diamond fraise wheel, a wire brush or even a metal scrapper. The skin is usually frozen with a coolant to make it rigid prior to the procedure. As the name suggests, the procedure can be bloody and unsightly even painful. Rarely pieces of skin tissues break off and will result in a scar. Not a recommended method for tattoo removal as it causes severe scarring. Today, the technique is refined with novel methods of skin abrasion, but nevertheless, the results are poor at best.
What are disadvantage of Mechanical tissue destruction?
The main disadvantages with mechanical destructive methods are the high risk of scarring; hypertrophic scars and even infection. For those who have deep tattoos, the risk of scarring is even higher with the above techniques. Often, the technique causes the tattoo pigments to imbed even deeper into the tissues. These methods are only used for very small areas of the skin with very superficial tattoos.
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