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- Title
Causes and Recommendations for Unanticipated Ink Retention Following Tattoo Removal Treatment.
- Authors
KIRBY, WILLIAM; CHEN, CYNTHIA L.; DESAI, ALPESH; DESAI, TEJAS
- Abstract
While placement of ink into the skin is a long-standing tradition, patients are now seeking tattoo removal on a more frequent basis. Once considered acceptable removal options, tattoo ink removal via physical destruction included dermabrasion, chemical destruction, salabrasion, thermal destruction, and cryotherapy. Now these options are used extremely infrequently. These modalities provided unpredictable results and often required prolonged healing times and left patients with skin discoloration, pain, scarring, and ink retention. Even the widely adopted use of lasers, now considered the gold standard method, offers some level of unpredictability surrounding the natural progression of ink resolution. Multiple factors need to be taken into consideration when successfully removing tattoo pigment including the modalities used, number and frequency of treatments, proper device technique, and physiological barriers to tattoo removal. This paper serves to elucidate the common causes of ink retention following tattoo removal treatment with recommendations on how best to address this relatively common occurrence.
- Subjects
TATTOO removal; TATTOOING; SKIN discoloration; MEDICAL lasers; COSMETIC dermatology
- Publication
Journal of Clinical & Aesthetic Dermatology, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 7, p27
- ISSN
1941-2789
- Publication type
Article