The test was conducted in Philadelphia with the help of Dr. Andrew Pollack of the Philadelphia Institute of Dermatology. The testing was covered and reported on by television station WPVI in Philadelphia. They wanted to record the comparative success between a highly publicized tattoo removal cream on the internet and Laser removal. Both women were in a hurry to remove their tattoos, but were willing to try a cream removal system first because of the convenience and low cost when compared to laser removal.

With the help of Dr. Pollack, both women agreed to help Action News test TatBgone against the laser.

Learn the results of this study: Tatbgone vs. Laser

The first known medical study performed to test the efficacy of TCA as a tattoo removal agent was the six year study from1979 through 1984 by two British Plastic Surgeons, Dr T. A. Piggot and R.W. Norris of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle, England.

The Piggot/Norris medical study was inspired by the 1972 published report of a 4 year study by Surgeon Captain R.W.B. Scutt, Dermatologist, F.R.C.P (Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians) concerning the incident of tattoo regret among the tattooed population of sailors in the Royal Navy between 1963 and 1966. The percentage of tattoo regret among the study group was as high as 70% by the time they were married. At the time, it was discovered that about 500 sailors were acquiring hand tattoos and about 4,000 sailors were acquiring forearm tattoos annually. This eventually led to the discouragement of tattoos on young recruits entering Naval training beginning in the late 1960′s and eventually the British Parliament passing a Bill against the tattooing of minors in 1969. Continued at TCA Tattoo Removal…