Removable Tattoos
Reported August 16, 2007
BOSTON (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) — You’ve outgrown that once-trendy tattoo. But getting it removed is no easy fix. Most laser treatments take eight to 10 sessions, they’re painful and you’re left with a negative imprint of the tattoo in your skin — often with scarring or pigment changes. Now, there’s a new kind of tattoo ink that can be safely and easily removed.
With 15 tattoos, Anne Miller is no stranger to the needle.
“It commemorates who I am and who other people have been to me,” she says.
She recently received her sixth treatment to get part of one of her tattoos removed. It’s a painful process with a laser.
“Patients are really very surprised when they find out how difficult it is to get a tattoo removed, because it only takes between an hour to an hour and a half to get a tattoo placed depending on the size of that tattoo,” says Sandy Tsao, M.D., a dermatologic surgeon from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Now, scientists from Harvard and Duke University have teamed up to create a new kind of ink. It’s biodegradable — and contained in tiny plastic polymer capsules. The capsule bursts open during laser removal, and the biodegradable dye is absorbed by the body.
“Initial studies definitely show a much easier and more effective removal of that ink,” Dr. Tsao says.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Freedom-2, Inc.
95 Morton St. Ground Floor
New York, New York 10014
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