09 Sep
TCA Tattoo Removal
Posted in Tattoo removal, tattoo removal medical studies, tattoo removal medical study, tca, tca tattoo removal on 09.09.09
As a tattoo removal agent Trichloroacetic Acid, commonly abbreviated as TCA (TCA tattoo removal) , has been successfully tested in two medical studies and mentioned in a third study which we could not confirm.
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…