Mapperley Park Clinic

At the Mapperley Park Clinic, we have 18 years of expertise in cosmetic medicine, delivering over 100 separate procedures from the simplest skin-peels to more invasive procedures, such as VASER Smartlipo carried out by consultant specialist surgeons. 

Mapperley Park has been delivering laser tattoo removal treatments for more than 18 years now and we have delivered nearly 30,000 treatments to more than 8,000 people in this time, delivering more than 2 million laser shots.  We know what we are doing – and we know what we are talking about.  We will always tell you the full truth – you can trust what we tell you.  

When we began laser tattoo removal in 1993, lasers were rare beasts, only seen in major hospitals where they took up small rooms and cost ferocious sums of money.  Our original Q-switched Ruby laser cost £65,000 and has proved a wise investment as it is still in daily use today, although backed up by other tattoo-removal systems, delivering other ‘colours’ of light.  We need a number of laser colours because multi-coloured tattoos need multiple colours of light – the more colours of light available, the more colours of tattoo ink can be treated.  Most providers will have 1 or 2 colours at best – we have 4 colours being:

Q-switched Ruby laser - Red light - 694nm - Our first choice for black, green and blue pigment on light skin
Q-switched ND:YAG laser - Infra-red (invisible) - 1064nm - A deeper penetrating laser, useful for many colours and on darker/freckled skin-types
Q-switched ND:YAG laser - Green light - 532nm - A shallow wavelength – most useful for red, orange and yellow pigments
Q-switched Alexandrite laser - Infra-red (invisible) - 755nm - Like the Ruby but penetrating deeper and delivered in a less aggressive mode – useful for darker/freckled skin-types.

Q-switched lasers are an absolute essential for tattoo removal – IPLs and long-pulse lasers do not deliver energy quickly enough to ‘crack’ tattoo pigment and will instead burn the tissue, causing scarring.

Q-switched lasers are not all the same – cheap lasers from the far-east are now easily bought on the internet for under £1000 and the same claims are made for these as are made for our high-end lasers costing over £50,000.  To claim that these systems are equal (as cheap equipment providers do) is like saying that a Rolls Royce is the same as a moped.  In lasers, you can tell the ‘moped’ quite easily for it will be little bigger than a large telephone, where our ‘Rolls Royce’ weighs half a ton.

Why do we need such an expensive and weighty system to deliver tattoo removal?  Because we need lots of energy delivered very quickly (in order to ‘explode’ tattoo particles) and the technology required to do this most effectively is not cheap and takes up plenty of space.  If cheap systems worked well, we would buy them – the fact that we spend £50,000 on a laser rather than £1000 should tell you everything you need to know about cheap lasers.

We would also recommend that you avoid ‘organic’ or chemical tattoo removal – find out why…

To summarise, we are experts in tattoo removal; we use the best equipment, have the most experience and will deliver the very best results that will also represent best value.

Cosmetic surgery may sound scary but for us it means a range of minimally invasive procedures, under local anaesthetic for a set of common problems.  Of course, cosmetic surgery can include major intervention and we can refer tyou to appropriate surgeons for the larger procedures that we can’t manage in our own minor-operations suite.

What we can deliver in any case is a Care Quality Commission registered facility, employing NHS accredited Plastic and Vascular specialist surgeons across a range of modern procedures to treat a wide variety of common cosmetic problems to include:

Varicose veins - Mr Braithwaite, consultant vascular surgeon, delivers a range of treatment techniques to include sclerotherapy, foam sclerotherapy, VNUS and EVLT and multiple avulsion procedures.  These are walk-in/walk-out techniques providing state-of-the art solutions for age-old problems.  Mr Braithwaite has carried out many hundreds of these procedures – over 200 in our facility alone. (note not for publishing – this is estimate number of total procedures at MPC)

Lumps and bumps - Mr Mark Henley and Mr Haseeb, consultant plastic surgeons, deliver a range of minor surgical procedures to remove cysts, moles, skin-tags and many other benign growths.  Suspicious growths are always biopsied so you can resolve these conditions quickly and safely on a walk-in/walk-out basis. Mr Henley and Mr Hasseeb have between them have carried out many thousands of this type of procedure and bring their treatment excellence to us for best cosmetic results.

Vaser Smartlipo - Mr Haseeb carries out Ultrasound fat reduction (VASER) for a range of minor problems.  These treatments are not for the overweight, where diet and exercise would be more appropriate but designed to deal with stubborn areas of unwanted fat in areas such as under-chin, ‘bingo-wings’, love-handles etc; in fact, anywhere where the fat just won’t budge.  The procedure is also useful for lipomas and other fatty lumps The procedure is walk-in/walk-out and delivered under local anaesthetic with minimum post-operative requirements.

Hair transplantation - Single follicle grafting is currently the treatment of choice for those with enough hair at the nape of the neck to transfer the thousands of follicles that may be required to fill in areas of hair loss.  The beauty of this treatment is that  healthy hair follicles are simple moved to areas where hair has ceased to grow.  This is a simple, painless but highly skilled operation, with Mr Haseeb laying transplanted follicles in a way that matches existing/previous growth patterns; no ‘plugs’ involved here, just your own natural hair re-laid by an expert with over 500 procedures to his name.

Blepheroplasty - Coming soon… Our suite is enabled to carry out these procedures and we will be delivering soon…

Other cosmetic

Procedures - If we cant deliver the procedure on-site at Mapperley Park, we will know someone and somewhere that can.  Give us a call and we will give you some sensible first advice and point you in the direction of the most appropriate specialist.

At Mapperley park, we have delivered nearly 22,000 treatments to more than 5,000 people in 18 years. Traditional methods for hair removal (depilation) include shaving, waxing and plucking all have one thing in common – they are not very effective as a long term solution.  This form of hair removal does not destroy the hair growing structure (the hair follicle) and hair will just grow back…  Electrolysis and laser (including Intense Pulsed Light) depilation are accepted as the only permanent depilation methods available today and we can offer laser, IPL and electrolysis at Mapperley Park.  We began our interest in depilation in 2003, using our Q-switched tattoo removal laser in a novel long-pulsed mode to target hair follicles.  This trial was so successful that we launched in 1993 – Nottingham’s first laser hair removal service.  Since then, we have introduced a range of equipment, as technology evolved and have used, at one point or other, the following systems, culminating in our preferred option being the combined Alexandrite/Nd:YAG laser.

1993 - Long-pulsed Ruby laser - 694nm - effective on light coloured skin only - slow and painful
1994 - Alexandrite laser - 755nm - effective on light coloured skin only - early Alex lasers were unreliable – we have had 4 different systems at one time or another
1996 - IPL - broadband - effective on light coloured skin only - early IPLs were underpowered – we have had 3 different IPLs at one time or another and still use IPL for some thread-veins and vascular lesions
2000 - Lightsheer Diode laser - 800nm - effective on all skin types - the first laser for dark skin – effective but slow
2004 - Soprano Diode - 810nm - effective on all skin types - a more sophisticated laser than the Lightsheer – effective but still too slow
2007 - Elite Alez/Nd:YAG - 755/1064nm - effective on all skin types - fast and effective on all skin and hair types (excepting white)