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This ‘crab’ tattoo turned black after the first sessions with the ruby laser. It took about 16 sessions to get to the final stage, at which time I suggested he stop treatments and allow the body to complete the fading process.
Back in those days around 50% of all our patients had ‘amateur’ tattoos which were usually home-made, by the patients themselves, using a needle and India Ink. The remainder were professional tattoos.
As we were the only commercial clinic in the world, at the time, we had patients from all over, including one man who lived in Hong Kong and flew to Glasgow every three months for his treatment. We also had a significant number of people who would drive up from London (400 miles away), or further away, overnight, just for their 20 to 30 minute treatment!!
The funny thing is that we noticed that hair was clearly burnt off during treatments. But we knew, for the early days in Canniesburn, that it would grow back. We didn’t think, at that time, that ‘laser hair removal’ might be a “thing’...
But then, that was a long time ago....
Cheers, Mike.
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