Tattoo Removal

Tattoos have become very popular. Nevertheless there are still people who have tattoos with which they are unhappy.

Dr Caminer can successfully remove tattoos via excision. The smaller the tattoo the easier it is to excise with a very fine linear scar. This is a fairly simple procedure and can be performed on all tattoos with complete removal and a resultant linear scar. If the tattoo is larger the tattoo can be removed over some months with serial excisions, waiting for the skin to loosen before doing the next excision. The resultant scar would still be a linear or straight scar.

For very large tattoos one can excise these with flap repairs or skin graft repairs. The last two options are not ideal but are possible depending on how much the person dislikes the tattoo. Smaller tattoos can be removed under a local anaesthetic in my office, larger tattoos are often removed under sedation as a day only procedure.