Dr. Bentkover has over 20 years experience using cosmetic medical lasers. He treats many patients each month who want their tattoos removed or modified. He can treat tattoos anywhere on your body.

Even before you get a tattoo, however, you need to have a realistic idea about how easy or difficult it might be to remove or modify it.  Here are some pointers to consider before you get your tattoo:

• Removing the tattoo is generally much more time consuming and expensive than getting a tattoo in the first place.  Even a small blue-black tattoo of 2 inches in surface area, one of the easiest tattoos to remove, can take 8 or 10 treatments. 
• Treatments are generally 2 months apart.
• Yellow, beige and flesh color are almost impossible to remove.  Orange, green, turquoise and some greens can be very difficult to remove.  
• Some of the new titanium dyes used for tattoos make removal of any color a challenge.  The titanium seems to reflect the laser.
• If you have an entire arm or leg tattooed, satisfactory removal is probably not possible.
• Ultimately the ability to remove a tattoo depends on your body.  The lasers shatter the pigment.  This stimulates your own white blood cells to enter the area to remove the pigment.  Everyone's white blood cells respond at different rates.  

We have three different lasers for removing your tattoo. The different wavelengths (colors) generated by these two lasers enable us to target most tattoo colors very effectively and with very low risk.

Candela AlexLazr®

This is an alexandrite laser. It works best for black, blue, brown and green.

Palomar YAG5

This laser can generate two different wavelengths and a variety of mixtures of those two wavelengths. This versatility enables us to use this laser to treat black, blue, brown, green, red, orange and yellow.

Candela AlexTriVantage®

This new laser from Candela combines the alexandrite and YAG wavelengths in one very sophisticated package.  This is the state-of-the art in laser tattoo removal.

For more information and photos of works in progress visit us at newenglandtattooremoval.com