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Treatment of amalgam tattoo with an Er,Cr:YSGG laser

2010; Wiley; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.2041-1626.2010.00011.x

2041-1626

Hasan Güney Yılmaz, Hakan Bayındır, Başak Kuşakçı Şeker, Simge Taşar, Sevcan Kurtulmuş-Yılmaz,

Dermatologic Treatments and Research

Amalgam tattoos are common, asymptomatic, pigmented oral lesions that clinically exist as isolated, blue, gray, or black macules on the gingival, buccal, and alveolar mucosae, the palate, and/or the tongue. In this case report, the successful use of an erbium, chromium-doped:yttrium, scandium, gallium, and garnet laser for the removal of an amalgam tattoo is explained. A 46-year-old man is presented with a half decade history of an amalgam tattoo on his left maxillary premolar-molar gingiva. Depigmentation procedure was performed under topical anesthesia with the use of an erbium, chromium-doped:yttrium, scandium, gallium, and garnet laser at 2 W in the soft tissue pulsed mode for 10 min. The pigmented tissue was completely removed. The de-epithelialization area healed completely on the 10th day after treatment. The period of healing was uneventful. The amalgam tattoo was completely removed with erbium, chromium-doped:yttrium, scandium, gallium, and garnet laser, and the treated area healed without any adverse effect.