There are various effective tattoo removal techniques available today, although some scars or colour differences persist. The success of tattoo removal is dependent on a number of elements, including the size, location, healing time, and method of application. Due to the pigment being evenly injected at the same level of the skin, a tattoo created by an expert tattoo artist may be simpler to erase. It could be more difficult to get rid of an old tattoo than a fresh one. Tattoos with many colours are more challenging to remove than those with only one colour.

Methods for Removing Tattoos

• Laser: The laser is one of the finest ways to remove tattoos in the opinion of many doctors.
• Q-switched Nd:Yag 1064 nm: Q-switched Alexandrite, and Q-switched Ruby lasers are now among the most often utilised lasers for tattoo removal. Applying a topical anaesthetic lotion beforehand will numb the area before the procedure. The body’s scavenger cells then remove the tattoo pigment from the treated regions over the course of a few weeks after the pigment has been broken up by the laser’s focus on the tattoo. The average number of treatments required to completely erase a tattoo is eight to ten, spaced four weeks apart. Usually, using two or more laser wavelengths is necessary to remove multicoloured tattoos.
• Nd: YAG Q-switched at 1064 nm: Darker skin types are best suited for this laser. Because tattoo pigments in black absorb this laser’s wavelength the best, it is particularly successful at eradicating those colours. For tattoos containing red, green, and yellow pigment, it may be used in conjunction with other lasers.
• Resurfacing: Resurfacing can be used to remove just the pigment-bearing top layers of skin from areas with tattoos. The pigment of the tattoo that is present in the deeper layers of the skin is typically not completely removed by this method.