Patent ID: 8663162

Claim:
A method of removing a tattoo from a subject of the type involving delivering a eschar-inducing material into the area of skin associated with the tattoo, wherein the improvement comprises: utilizing a template to determine the placement of the eschar-inducing material into an area of skin, the template comprising: a first layer having a first side and a second side, the first layer made of a flexible, cuttable material and having uniformly spaced circular apertures, each circular aperture thereof having a constant diameter of between about three (3) and about six (6) millimeters, and spacing of from about three (3) to about five (5) millimeters therebetween, wherein the second side thereof has an adhesive associated therewith for removable adhesion to a subject's skin, and a second, cuttable removable layer covering the second side and preserving the adhesiveness thereof so that upon removal of the second layer from the first layer, adhesive is exposed for removable application of the first layer to the subject's skin about a tattoo placed thereon, wherein the circular apertures open above the subject's skin, utilizing the template comprising: cleaning a skin area of the subject at and around a tattoo to be removed, shaping the template to accommodate the tattoo, removing the second layer from the first layer of the template, placing the first layer of the template adhesive side down upon the tattoo, marking dots upon the tattoo through said apertures in the template, removing the template, and delivering, with at least one needle, eschar-inducing material into the tattoo at the dots, so that the eschar-inducing material disrupts local skin cells and liberates pigments of the tattoo from the subject's skin, thus dissolving pigments associated with the tattoo, which pigments are coagulated within an eschar for later removal.