Tattoos & Laser Removal: How Does it Work?

Many people now consider laser treatment to get rid of tattoos. In this post I briefly describe the ‘science’ behind the laser removal of tattoos.
The skin is made up of a number of layers, the epidermis (the outermost layer), dermis and hypodermis (the innermost layer). Very simply, when the tattoo is created, a needle penetrates the epidermis and places ink in the dermis layer. As