Laser Tattoo Removal: A Review

Kent, Kathryn M.; Graber, Emmy

doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02187.x

Cited by 107 publications

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“…23 Motivations for laser tattoo removal were mainly considering the tattoo as youthful folly (29%), esthetic reasons (28%) and 6% indicated medical problems. One third of participants were unsatisfied with the result of laser tattoo removal, and a complete removal of the tattoo pigment was obtained in 38% only.…”

Section: Treatment and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adverse reactions to tattoos: a study from the hilly region in northern India

Kashyap¹,

Kumar²

2016

Int J Res Med Sci

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Section: Treatment and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adverse reactions to tattoos: a study from the hilly region in northern India

Kashyap¹,

Kumar²

2016

Int J Res Med Sci

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“…Owing to the characteristics of a tattoo (i.e., body location, size, depth, age, and pigment color) [1][2][3][4][5], a number of tattoo removal techniques are in use, including surgical excision, cryosurgery, chemical destruction, and laser removal [3,[6][7][8][9]. Currently, laser tattoo removal is considered to be one of the most efficient techniques owing to the selective treatment of the tattoo pigments.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feasibility of LED-Assisted CMOS Camera: Contrast Estimation for Laser Tattoo Treatment

et al. 2018

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Abstract:Understanding the residual tattoo ink in skin after laser treatment is often critical for achieving good clinical outcomes. The current study aims to investigate the feasibility of a light-emitting diode (LED)-assisted CMOS camera to estimate the relative variations in tattoo contrast after the laser treatment. Asian mice were tattooed using two color inks (black and red). The LED illumination was a separate process from the laser tattoo treatment. Images of the ink tattoos in skin were acquired under the irradiation of three different LED colors (red, green, and blue) for pre-and post-treatment. The degree of contrast variation due to the treatment was calculated and compared with the residual tattoo distribution in the skin. The black tattoo demonstrated that the contrast consistently decreased after the laser treatment for all LED colors. However, the red tattoo showed that the red LED yielded an insignificant contrast whereas the green and blue LEDs induced a 30% (p < 0.001) and 26% (p < 0.01) contrast reduction between the treatment conditions, respectively. The proposed LED-assisted CMOS camera can estimate the relative variations in the image contrast before and after the laser tattoo treatment.

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“…[1][2][3] Meanwhile, however, pigmented wounds arising from various sources of trauma are also categorized as tattoos, traumatic ones. 2 These tattoos involve the forceful embedding of foreign bodies into the skin: potential materials include graphite, asphalt, petroleum products, sand, metals, glass, gunpowder, or dust. 4 When pigmented foreign bodies enter into the dermis, large phagosomes found in keratinocytes, macrophages, and mesenchymal cells engulf the particles, creating varying degrees of hypertrophic scar tissue.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1,2,4,7,8 By delivering nanosecond-domain laser energy to the tattoo substances, explosive expansion of chromophores in the tattoo pigment results in fragmentation thereof into smaller particles by selective photothermolysis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%