In 2000, he teamed up with fellow tattoo artist Guy Aitchison to help a firefighter cover up a large skin graft. I talked to Clue about the work, tattooing scar tissue, and the ways tattoo artists ...

Researchers asked patients to rate how their scar or graft looked on a 10-point scale, with zero as "very ugly" and 10 as "very nice," before and after they got tattoos. After the tattoos, average ...

When you get a tattoo, your body mounts a battle against the ink. So how do ankle flowers and bicep hearts stick around so long? Researchers took a look at specialized cells that gobble up the ink.

Arsenal player’s leg saved by eight surgeries and skin graft — from his tattooed arm November 3, 2017 More than 7 years ago Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla last played Oct. 19, 2016.

“I have diabetes, and every operation is a gamble,” he said.Instead, he went through a skin graft to repair the right side of his face, which required nearly a year to fully heal.

An even more dramatic technique was to cut the tattoo out and then skin-graft it; but this exchanged a tattoo for a scar. Skin grafts are not nearly the same quality as regular skin.

Another of her clients covered a large discoloured scar on her neck from a skin graft to make her feel "less exposed". "After getting a tattoo, she didn’t mind people looking at her anymore," Ms ...

After breast reconstruction surgery, there’s a final phase: nipple and areola reconstruction. Learn the options -- from outpatient surgery to tattoos.