Tattooed skin and health

With about 10-20% of the adult population in Europe being tattooed, there is a strong demand for publications discussing the various issues related to tattooed skin and health. Until now, only a few scientific studies on tattooing have been published. This book discusses different aspects of the var...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bäumler, Wolfgang 1959- (HerausgeberIn), Kluger, Nicolas (HerausgeberIn), Serup, Jørgen (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basel ; New York Karger 2015
Schriftenreihe:Current problems in dermatology vol. 48
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • The tattooed and the social environment. The cultural heritage of tattooing: a brief history
  • Epidemiology of tattoos in industrialized countries
  • The practise of tattooing. Tattoo machines, needles and utilities
  • The technique and craftsmanship of tattooing in the professional tattoo parlour
  • Tattoo as art, the drivers behind the fascination and the decision to become tattooed
  • Personal records from my tattoo parlour: deep emotions drawn as life-long pictures on the skin's canvas
  • Tattooist-customer relationships in a diversified environment of professional tattooists and 'scratchers'
  • Tattoos and adverse events. Tattoo complaints and complications: diagnosis and clinical spectrum
  • Complications of cosmetic tattoos
  • Chronic tattoo reactions cause reduced quality of life equaling cumbersome skin diseases
  • Contraindications for tattooing
  • Laser tattoo removal, precautions, and unwanted effects
  • Nano-scale observations of tattoo pigments in skin by atomic force microscopy
  • Manufacturing, materials and properties of marketed tattoo ink stock products. Manufacturing of tattoo ink products today and in future
  • The realistic variables underlying true safety in tattoo pigment manufacturing
  • Making innovative tattoo ink products with improved safety: possible and impossible ingredients in practical usage
  • Tailored surface engineering of pigments by layer-by-layer coating
  • Ingredients, chemical analysis and safety of marketed tattoo ink stock products. Chemical purity and toxicology of pigments used in tattoo inks
  • Survey on european studies of the chemical characterisation of tattoo ink products and the measurement of potentially harmful ingredients
  • Tattoo inks: legislation, pigments, metals and chemical analysis
  • The challenges and limitations of chemical analysis of particulate pigments of very low solubility
  • Photostability and breakdown products of pigments currently used in tattoo inks
  • Carbon black nanoparticles and other problematic constituents of black ink and their potential to harm tattooed humans
  • Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of tattoo colorants and ingredients in mouse and man: the known and the unknown
  • Towards the limiting of health risks associated with tattooing: whitelists for tattoo pigments and preservatives
  • Survey of studies on microbial contamination of marketed tattoo inks
  • Regulation of and intervention in the tattoo business. The European landscape of national regulations of tattoo inks and businesses
  • Implementation of European Council Resolution ResAP(2008)1 in Italy. National and regional regulation of tattoo practices: diversity and challenges
  • EU actions to ensure the safety of tattoos and the protection of consumers
  • Surveillance of tattoo-related adverse events by the EU RAPEX System and by national monitoring
  • The Amsterdam model for control of tattoo parlours and businesses
  • Hygiene standards for tattooists
  • Hygiene standards in the tattoo parlour and practices for prevention of infection
  • Seamless prevention of adverse events from tattooing: integrated strategy emphasising the customer-tattooist interaction
  • Regulation of tattoo ink production and the tattoo business