Laserase - Freedom from your tattoo

There are other ways to remove tattoos but the results can be disappointing and carry a relatively high complication risk.

'Organic', acid, or chemical removal

Organic or not, these methods involve the use of a concentrated caustic compound to chemically burn skin tissue to the depth of the tattoo itself.  This can obliterate the tattoo but only through the formation of scar-tissue, which may still contain pigment.  Scarring is inevitable but removal is not!

A number of science sounding acronyms such as Trans Epidermal Pigment Release (TEPR), have been used to mask what is, quite straight-forwardly chemical burning – Laserase does not recommend and such methods. 

It is notable that none of the caustic-burn providers can show proper before and after pictures; the best you will see is ‘after one treatment’, before full damage is done.  Chemical injection problems are the main complication from other providers that Laserase sees and while we can usually improve on the mess that is left behind, we cannot ever completely repair third-degree chemical burns.

Dermabrasion

To remove the pigment, layers of skin are removed and full thickness scarring will result. If the treatment fails to go deep enough only partial thickness scarring will occur but remnants of the tattoo can remain.

Surgery

Removing the skin which contains the tattoo and replacing it with a partial thickness skin graft from elsewhere on the body - two areas of scarring will result.

High energy Q-Switched laser treatments are the only safe and effective method of tattoo removal at this time.