$X$ be a Mumford curve and $\varphi \colon X \to Y$ a map that induces a fully faithful tropicalization of $X$. Then there exist functions $f_1,\dots,f_n$ on $X$ such that $\varphi' \coloneqq \varphi \times (f_1,\dots,f_n) \colon X \to Y \times ({\mathbf{P}}^1)^n$ induces a fully faithful tropicalization of $X$ and such that $\operatorname{Trop}_\varphi(X)$ is a smooth tropical curve.

In Theorem \[thm:resolution\], we prove a resolution procedure for singularities of embedded tropical curves. We use this to show that any smooth algebraic curves admits a map to $({\mathbf{P}}^1)^{2g+2}$ that results in a smooth tropicalization (Corollary \[cor:smooth-tropicalization\]). The best possible bound on the dimension of the ambient space needed is $2g-1$, since any curve whose minimal skeleton has a vertex of degree $d$ cannot be embedded smoothly into a space of dimension $2d-2$ (or smaller). We are hence three off of the optimal bound.

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In Section \[sec:prelim\], we recall the necessary background on tropicalization, Berkovich skeleta and (tropical) meromorphic functions.

In Section \[sec:construction\] we construct three tropical meromorphic functions on the skeleton, depending on certain parameters, and we show that these functions are liftable.

In Section \[sec:params\] we describe conditions on those parameters that will allow us to prove Theorem \[ThmA\].

