A Current Fad?

[vnatale]

More on tattoo's...

Yesterday a read a book on a Navy SEAL who was severely injured in Iraq. Had something like 26 operations. some of which required skin grafts.

His available skin to be used for the skin grafts was severely limited because so much of his skin was covered by tattoo's.

Therefore a downside to having tattoo's which may never come in to play for most people. But could for some. Probably far more likely now due to the prevalence of tattoo's.

Vinny

[Tortoise]

Why would a tattoo interfere with a skin graft?

[vnatale]

Why would a tattoo interfere with a skin graft?

I did a search and could not find an answer. That was what the book author had stated in his book.

Vinny

[l82start]

guessing...... not every area is covered in the "best for grafting" type skin, tattoos reduce the graft ability of the skin they are on, a lot of leg, ass, full sleeve style tattoos limits options?

[Tortoise]

guessing...... not every area is covered in the "best for grafting" type skin, tattoos reduce the graft ability of the skin they are on, a lot of leg, ass, full sleeve style tattoos limits options?

Yeah, my question is really why would tattoos reduce the graft ability of the skin they are on? It’s just injected ink; it’s not toxic.

Like Vinny, I also did a quick interwebz search but couldn’t find any obvious assertions that tattooed skin is harder to graft.

[Xan]

Well it would mess up the picture. It would turn out like this:

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[Kriegsspiel]

Yesterday a read a book on a Navy SEAL who was severely injured in Iraq.

What book is this.

[vnatale]

Yesterday a read a book on a Navy SEAL who was severely injured in Iraq.

What book is this.

The Trident

https://jasonredman.com/books/


Vinny