What is the Safest Laser Tattoo Removal Procedure?

Do you have a tattoo that you would like to remove? Do you try to pull down your sleeves in the stretching effort to cover up your age-old tattoo? Do you know that now you have an option to get rid of the black ugly mark so that you can flaunt you glowing soft smooth skin again? There are certain opportunities that will definitely help you.

In those old ages when the permanent marks had to be gotten rid of, the only way to do that was to peel off the skin in that particular area, or salabrasion or dermabrasion. The salt was used to rub off the marks, and that was indeed a painful procedure. And thankfully, that age is now gone. Then there came the age of the frank surgical excision.

Nowadays if you want to remove those blotchy marks that make your skin look dirty, acids are certainly not a safe option. These harsh chemicals will never let the wound heal properly and fast, and will only leave behind ugly scars so that all that you can ever buy from shops would be long-sleeved shirts, or long jeans and skirts. Now, that is something that you would never wish for, right?

The only option to settle for is the laser tattoo removal. But even this technique has a history full of failed experiments and consequences. The argon lasers and the CO2 also called the ablative lasers remind one of the harmful surgical procedures since both of their effects and results were the same. Both left open wounds that took a long time to heal.

The Q switched lasers immediately came to the rescue. Unlike the ablative lasers the Qswitch instrument worked in a different manner having a superfast shutter which allows only a short burst of laser light into the skin. The heat from the laser beam is absorbed by the pigment of black ink. But this happens in such a short time (almost as long as a nanosecond), that the pigment hardly has time to inflate, so it cracks. This means that it cannot cope with the high amount of energy that is packed into the laser beam.

The pigment breaks up into small pieces, which are then digested into the white blood cells and transported to other areas. And do not panic, these small pieces are so small that they will eventually be lost, and you will not have a single trace of their presence left. This is a guarantee!

Finally the tattoo will gradually disappear, and you will thus have a clean canvas to have it drawn on again!

There are 3 types of Qswitched laser used in the market today: the Alexandrite, Ruby and Nd:YAG. Different lasers are used for different types of ink colors that had been used, because different inks actually respond in different ways to the laser. The Ruby being the first Qswitched laser, gives off a beam of a wavelength of 690mm, which works on only green and blue colors. The Alexandrite with the wavelength of 755 mm is effective on green tattoos. Finally, the YAG with 532 and 1064 nanometers is more effective on red and black tattoos. Yellow, pink and purple are more resistant to the laser treatment. They generally contain high metal oxides. They are difficult to eraser, but with more sittings, they will certainly fade away.

Tattoo removal can never be completed in just one sitting. You will have to go back again and again to the chair to get the laser treatment done the proper way. Normally, it takes about 6-12 sittings to obliterate the tattoo mark, and these will all be done within 4-6 weeks.