Tattoo removal can be performed with the old fashioned surgerywhere the tattoo was removed with all the involved skin, replacing the tattoo with a scar. It does not make much sense to trade the tattoo with a huge scar in our opinion. We use the Q-Switched Medlite Laser http://www.conbio.com/html/medlite.html made by Conbio USA, to treat tattoos. Q-Switched lasers are the Gold Standard to treat tattoos internationally. Generally black, blue and red tattoos can be removed very effectively, whereas the green and yellow tattoos are somewhat difficult to treat. Treatment is painless as the local anesthesia is given to put the affected area to sleep, and the treatment takes 15-30 minutes to perform depending upon the size of the tattoo. Patient can go home mmediately after the procedure and ca resume the normal actibities immediately. A series of treatments usually one month apart, are usually needed to erase most of the tattoos.
