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| | |[[File:PeruvianMummy-1.jpg|thumb|Tattoos on the arms of a Peruvian mummy (age/era unknown).]] |
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:ProblemTransdermal.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="102" src="/images/thumb/7/73/ProblemTransdermal.jpg/150px-ProblemTransdermal.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:ProblemTransdermal.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Typical "good" healing in a transdermal, removed not much longer.</div></div></div>
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:BackTransdermalsOut.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="93" src="/images/thumb/d/d1/BackTransdermalsOut.jpg/150px-BackTransdermalsOut.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:BackTransdermalsOut.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Three and Four-lobed transdermal implants, freshly removed.</div></div></div>
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| <p>Removal can require anything from the simplest (basically the implant procedure in reverse with a couple extra steps — make an incision in the original location, elevate the implant, excise it from the surrounding tissue, and pull it out) to massive incisions covering the length of the implant or implant series coupled with excision. If there are problems with <a href="/index.php?title=Deep_Transdermal_Placement" title="Deep Transdermal Placement">deep transdermal placement</a>, removal can be far more problematic.
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:182px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:BloodyTransdermalRemoval.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="146" src="/images/thumb/f/fe/BloodyTransdermalRemoval.jpg/180px-BloodyTransdermalRemoval.jpg" width="180"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:BloodyTransdermalRemoval.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Typical transdermal removal procedure</div></div></div>
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| <p>Depending on how the implants were removed, basic suturing or wound closure will be required, or in a worst case scenario (barring something really serious like an <a href="/index.php?title=Inward_Traveling_Infection" title="Inward Traveling Infection">inward travelling infection</a> which can also require reconstruction of underlying tissue), a long series of closure.
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:SimpleTransRemoval.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="193" src="/images/thumb/5/5a/SimpleTransRemoval.jpg/150px-SimpleTransRemoval.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:SimpleTransRemoval.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>"Simple" removal results, fresh.</div></div></div>
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| <p>Typically the scars will be quite prominent for the first few months, and settle down over the next few years depending on the individual. Below are two examples that match the procedures I have shown above:
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:HealedRemoval-1.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="185" src="/images/thumb/d/d7/HealedRemoval-1.jpg/150px-HealedRemoval-1.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:HealedRemoval-1.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>"Simple" removal results, healed.</div></div></div>
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| <td><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:HealedRemoval-2.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="129" src="/images/thumb/3/3b/HealedRemoval-2.jpg/150px-HealedRemoval-2.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:HealedRemoval-2.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Problematic (<a href="/index.php?title=Deep_Transdermal_Placement" title="Deep Transdermal Placement">Deep Transdermal Placement</a> removal, healed.</div></div></div>
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| <p>All in all, because of the low success rate and complications, transdermal implants are one of the few procedures that BME recommends against — although we fully support people's right to get them, <b>if and only if they fully understand and accept the risks.</b> It should also be noted that a variety of professionals are trying to solve the problems with transdermal implants.
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| <dl><dd><ul><li> <a href="/index.php?title=Transdermal_Implant" title="Transdermal Implant">Transdermal Implant</a>
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| | '''Tattooed Mummies''' have been found in several locations across the world. Considering that both mummification (either natural or deliberate) and tattooing are global phenomena, it is actually quite surprising that more instances are not known. |
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| | The most impressive examples of tattooed mummies have come from the Pazyryk and Scythian burial mounds of Siberia. Greenland and Egypt have also produced tattooed mummies, with another discovered in a glacier in the Alps. |
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| | In May [[2006]], a female mummy from the South American Moche culture was found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru. She has tattoo coverage on both arms and other areas of her body. |
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| | Other cases of tattooed mummies do exist, but they are either poorly documented (the Tarim Mummies in China) or evidence of tattooing is inconclusive at best (Lindow Man, a bog body). |
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| | *[[Egyptian Mummies]] |
| | *[[Greenland Mummies]] |
| | *[[The Iceman]] |
| | *[[Pazyryk Mummies]] |
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 Tattoos on the arms of a Peruvian mummy (age/era unknown). |
 While easy to obtain on the open market, these are almost always grave-robbed. |
Tattooed Mummies have been found in several locations across the world. Considering that both mummification (either natural or deliberate) and tattooing are global phenomena, it is actually quite surprising that more instances are not known.
The most impressive examples of tattooed mummies have come from the Pazyryk and Scythian burial mounds of Siberia. Greenland and Egypt have also produced tattooed mummies, with another discovered in a glacier in the Alps.
In May 2006, a female mummy from the South American Moche culture was found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru. She has tattoo coverage on both arms and other areas of her body.
Other cases of tattooed mummies do exist, but they are either poorly documented (the Tarim Mummies in China) or evidence of tattooing is inconclusive at best (Lindow Man, a bog body).
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