A new zealand woman has been forced to have a skin graft after a tattoo removal went wrong. kezia strong, 33, was left with third-degree burns after she attempted to have a butterfly tattoo on her. There are other options for surgical removal of a very large tattoo, including skin grafting and tissue expansion which are major procedures with potencialy high risk of complications at the donor and recipient sites.. Laser tattoo removal • removal (excision) and reconstruction with a skin graft in such cases the tattoo skin is completely removed and the defect is resurfaced with a skin graft. the skin graft looks like a patch of your own skin (like a pocket on a shirt)..
How is tattoo removal surgery done? it should usually be possible to do the surgery as an awake (local anaesthetic) operation although operations to remove larger tattoos would be done under general anaesthetic especially if skin grafting is required.. Surgical tattoo removal removal . also known as excision: this is where the patch of skin which contains the tattoo is, literally, cut out. as you might imagine this is a drastic means of tattoo removal and one that results in scarring.. For the most, part they all said the same thing: that the tattoo would take 2-3 sessions and would consist of the tattoo being excised out of my skin or i could choose to do skin grafts. skin grafts would mean more anesthetic..