If you are having surgery can you get a tattoo before it?

Not recommended: Getting such a traumatizing procedure to your skin such as a tattoo is not a good idea close to a surgery. Bacteria inoculated into the skin could cause a bigger problem after your surgery. In particular i mean surgery on the area of the skin with the tattoo. Once your skin has healed from the tattoo then surgery would be safe. Discuss this at length with your surgeon.