Our patients come from great distances. Some live close by. But I tell them that the way these lasers work, it's breaking up the ink below the skin surface inside the body, so the body itself can get rid of the ink. Treatment time may take 10 or 15 minutes. We're talking about big surface area tattoos.
Treatment is very rapid.
But the fading of the ink after treatment, your own body getting rid of the ink takes several months. I suggest usually about two months before we treat again. In the beginning, patients were treated mostly around the Boston area. Those patients were treated at about one month intervals. Our patients come from huge distances, traveling hundreds of miles.