Tattoo removal

Burris, Katy; Kim, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2007.05.011

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“…Removal is sometimes required because of medical complications such as allergic or granulomatoustype reactions (Burris 2007). Removal methods (Box 3) are expensive and can lead to incomplete removal and scarification.…”

Section: Tattoo Removalmentioning

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Tattoos: what is their significance?

Khosla¹,

Joseph²,

Gordon³

2010

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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SummaryThe prevalence of tattoos is higher among people with mental disorders and those likely to come in contact with mental health services. The motivations for acquiring a tattoo are varied and tattoos can give clues to the presence of particular psychiatric conditions and to the inner world of patients. Psychiatrists need to be aware of the health and safety issues surrounding the tattooing procedure and be able to give appropriate advice to their patients if they wish to acquire a tattoo. The issue of capacity must be considered. This may be particularly relevant for clinicians working with adolescents, the most common age group for acquiring tattoos. Owing to the high proportion of adults who subsequently regret their tattoos and the associated psychological and social distress, clinicians should be aware of methods of tattoo removal.

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Section: Tattoo Removalmentioning

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“…There are mechanical, chemical and thermal methods (Burris 2007) for removing tattoos (Box 3). In some cases, tattoos can be camouflaged by injecting skin-tone pigments or by acquiring a new pattern on an existing tattoo.…”

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Tattoos: what is their significance?

Khosla¹,

Joseph²,

Gordon³

2010

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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“…[201][202][203][204] These technologies have since remained the standard for tattoo removal and are used in combination with cryogen spray cooling. 205,206 Future directions of laser tattoo removal will center on finding optimal wavelengths for complete elimination of tattoos with multiple colors.…”

Section: Tattoosmentioning

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Lasers and Optical Technologies in Facial Plastic Surgery

Wong

2008

Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

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“…10 As the size of tattoo particles ranges between 40 and 300 nm, 11,12 the Q-switched lasers would restrict the thermal injury to the targeted tattoo pigment, allowing for selective photothermolysis. 1,8,13,14 However, single laser treatment of tattoo should not work very well actually because of the high scattering property of skin as well as the hemoglobin absorption in the tattoo regions. Generally, multiple therapeutic sessions are typically required.…”

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“…But they all belong to destructive methods. Lasers have been used to treat tattoo since 1970s, including argon laser (488 and 514 nm), CO 2 laser (10,600 nm) [6][7][8] and Q-switched lasers such as Q-switched ruby laser (694 nm), 9 alexandrite laser (755 nm) and Nd:YAG laser (532 and 1064 nm). 10 As the size of tattoo particles ranges between 40 and 300 nm, 11,12 the Q-switched lasers would restrict the thermal injury to the targeted tattoo pigment, allowing for selective photothermolysis.…”

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Quantitative evaluation of enhanced laser tattoo removal by skin optical clearing

Liu

Shi

Chen

et al. 2015

J. Innov. Opt. Health Sci.

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Lasers have been widely used for tattoo removal, but the limited light penetration depth caused by high skin scattering property restricts the therapeutic outcome of deep tattoo. Skin optical clearing method, by introducing optical clearing agent (OCA) into skin, has shown some improvement in the e®ect of laser tattoo removal. In this study, the enhanced laser tattoo removal has been quantitatively assessed. OCA was applied to the skin of tattoo animal model and Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm) irradiation was used to remove the tattoo. The skin evaluation instrument (Mexameter probe, MPA580) was applied to measure the content of tattoo pigment before and after laser treatment, and then the clearance rate of pigment was calculated. Further, Monte Carlo (MC) method was utilized to simulate the e®ect of skin optical clearing on light transmission in tattoo skin model. By comparing the pigment change of tattoo areas respectively treated with OCA plus laser and single laser, it was found that pigment clearance of the former tattoo area was increased by 1.5-fold. Further, the MC simulation veri¯ed that the reduced light scattering in skin could increase the e®ective dose of luminous°ux reaching to the deep tattoo regions. It can be concluded from both experiment and theoretical This is an Open Access article published by World Scienti¯c Publishing Company. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY) License. Further distribution of this work is permitted, provided the original work is properly cited. k Corresponding Authors. Vol. 8, No. 3 (2015) 1541007 (8 pages simulations that skin optical clearing technique could improve the outcome of laser tattoo removal, which should be bene¯cial for clinical laser tattoo removal and other laser pigment elimination. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

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Tattoo removal

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 publications

Tattoos: what is their significance?

Tattoos: what is their significance?

Lasers and Optical Technologies in Facial Plastic Surgery

Quantitative evaluation of enhanced laser tattoo removal by skin optical clearing

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