Misconceptions About Tattoo Removal

Tattoos have been a crucial part of human expression which they use as a medium to explain their feelings, ideologies, and even opinions. However, with the changing time, people often tend to outgrow their love for the art form, and thus do not get tattooed at all. What happens to those who want to get them removed, though? For years we have had the opinion that tattoos are pretty much permanent and can’t be removed. Well, not anymore! With the best tattoo removal clinic in Cairns, you can now remove tattoos in just a few sittings if you could get past a few misconceptions about tattoo removal.

Prior to the popularity of lasers, tattoo removal was a more painful procedure with a greater risk of scarring.

Thanks to today’s advancements in technology and technique, lasers have become the standard treatment for tattoo removal…

There was a time when there were only three options for removing unwanted tattoos. Allow me to explain…

• The first option and in my opinion the least attractive is known as dermabrasion, where skin is actually “sanded” to remove the surface and middle layers of skin to get at the pigment.
• Then there’s cryosurgery, where the area is frozen prior to its removal.
• The third is excision, where the surgeon removes the tattoo with a scalpel and closes the wound with stitches.

In some cases involving large tattoos, a skin graft from another part of the body may have also been necessary.

Does laser tattoo removal hurt a lot?

Lasers offer a bloodless, low risk, effective alternative with minimal side effects…

Lasers work by producing short pulses of intense light energy that pass harmlessly through the top layers of the skin. These pulses of light will be selectively absorbed by the tattoo pigment. This light energy causes the tattoo pigment to fragment into smaller particles that are then removed by the body’s immune system. A misconceptions about tattoo removal in relation to this is the thought that lasers ‘burn’ the tattoo off…this is not correct!

Laser tattoo removal has been described as feeling like being snapped by a thin rubber band.

We offer a cooling system that assists with any discomfort associated with the treatments. We utilise the Nd:Yag Q-Switch Laser System for tattoo removal. This system sets an industry standard by which ALL other devices are measured!

Does laser tattoo removal cause scarring?

There is a less than 5% chance of scarring…

Each treatment is done on an outpatient basis in a series of visits. There are simple aftercare instructions and we are always available after your treatment if you have any follow-up questions.

This video is a forearm script tattoo being removed. You can see the nice “frost” (dehydrated skin and gases) that will rise to the surface during treatment and  fade within minutes. Our client is sitting comfortably without flinching, whincing or gasping in pain though everyone is different, we all have a different pain threshold and we all heal at our own rate. For those more sensitive areas or clients wishing to have a pain free treatment, you can always opt to use a numbing cream such as ‘Numit‘ which is available over the counter at your local chemist.