Others are the wives of elderly sailors who want to know how their husbands can remove 40-year-old tattoos.

The children winced at a bloody film of a girl having tattoos surgically removed from her hands.

And laser light is used to remove tattoos.

It is possible to remove tattoos, but it's painful and can cause scarring.

All previous methods of removing tattoos, including lasers, usually left big scars and were generally painful.

There are better ways to remove tattoos (such as with laser resurfacing).

And even if the doctors could get the cemented bone jewelry out, removing tattoos of this size would be a massive job.

The method later became popular in removing birthmarks and tattoos without leaving much scarring.

The same lasers used to remove tattoos are now being used to erase some dark circles.

Cryosurgery, sometimes called cryotherapy, has also been used to remove tattoos.