No, according to Ariel Ostad, professor of dermatology at New York University.
It is normal to wonder if the fashion of tattooing will not pose a risk to the skin, since several inks used contain metals, such as blue -cobalt and aluminum- or red -mercury-.
To this is added that this technique involves an attack on the epidermis and that some cases of cancer have been registered in tattooed people.
But Ostad denies that the tattoo is the cause, since the ink – he says – is not harmful since it is housed in cells called macrophages whose function is precisely to absorb the foreign material into the body .
Yes it could happen that the dye hid a possible melanoma.
