Editing Tattoo (section)

=== Traumatic tattoos ===
A traumatic tattoo occurs when a substance such as asphalt or gunpowder is rubbed into a [[wound]] as the result of some kind of accident or trauma.<ref name="traumatic">{{Cite web |title=10.18 Traumatic Tattoos and Abrasions |url=http://www.ncemi.org/cse/cse1018.htm |access-date=17 August 2018 |website=Emergency Medicine Informatics |archive-date=7 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907093923/http://www.ncemi.org/cse/cse1018.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> When this involves [[carbon]], dermatologists may call the mark a [[carbon stain]] instead of a tattoo.<ref name="Andrews">{{cite book |author1=James, William D. |url=https://archive.org/details/oralcancerdiagno00shkl |title=Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology |author2=Berger, Timothy G. |publisher=Saunders Elsevier |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7216-2921-6 |display-authors=etal |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|47}} [[Coal mining|Coal miners]] could develop characteristic marks, called collier's stripes, because of [[coal dust]] getting into scratches and other small wounds.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orwell |first=George |title=Inside the Whale |title-link=Inside the Whale |year=1940 |chapter=Down the Mine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-06-17 |title=Occupational skin and lung disease in coalfield communities |url=https://www.nursingtimes.net/public-health/occupational-skin-and-lung-disease-in-coalfield-communities-17-06-2019/ |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=Nursing Times |language=en}}</ref> An [[amalgam tattoo]] is when [[amalgam (dentistry)|amalgam]] particles are implanted in to the soft tissues of the mouth, usually the gums, during dental filling placement or removal.<ref name="amalgam">{{Cite web |title=Amalgam tattoo |url=http://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/patient-information-leaflets/amalgam-tattoo-march-2016.htm |access-date=17 August 2018 |website=Royal Berkshire Hospital |archive-date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210124728/http://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/patient-information-leaflets/amalgam-tattoo-march-2016.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Another example of such accidental tattoos is the result of a deliberate or accidental stabbing with a pencil or pen, leaving graphite or ink beneath the skin.