I have several tattoos but never knew there was a such thing as an "allergy to a tattoo". A few weeks after my foot tattoo healed I realized something was really off about it. I've had it for like 5 months now and I am certainly allergic to one particular ink used. Its small but on two separate spots of my body, foot and wrist. I've heard laser removal is really painful and your flesh sound like "frying bacon" under the laser. Ew, the pain of getting the tattoo on my foot was bad enough.
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Laser Tattoo Removal is an excellent procedure for removing tattoos. Having a tattoo removed is a long process. Treatments need to be spread out, usually 4 weeks apart, to give your skin time to heal between treatments. After the sessions, your back may have most if not all the...
In my practice, we offer the PicoWay laser to treat tattoos with minimal discomfort and no anesthesia. The PicoWay laser can also treat a wide variety of colors that we could once not treat in the past, such as green! We recommend 6 treatments, with 1 month between each treatment. In order to ...
Finger tattoos can be especially troubling. Generally they are small, however, and when this is the case, the results of surgical excision can be very good! This is one of my favorite areas to surgically remove tattoos because they tend to heal well and have a huge positive impact on...