New tattoo ink will be removable.(Dermatology) From: Internal Medicine News | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Dermatologist R. Rox Anderson and a small group of other physicians and investigators plan to market a removable tattoo ink next year, and if the ink lives up to the inventors' expectations, dermatologists will be able to remove permanent tattoos with a single laser treatment.

The ink is made of microencapsulated biocompatible pigments that are absorbed by the body when the "capsule"--beads of a polymer used in a variety of products approved by the Food and Drug Administration--is broken up by a laser treatment.

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