Botox (botulinum toxin)
An injection that temporarily relaxes a muscle, softening expression lines or reducing muscle bulk.
Understand Korean medical and beauty procedures: how they work, specialty, treatment time, downtime, cautions and market price ranges.
Compare how procedures work, specialty, treatment time, downtime, duration, sessions, cautions and aftercare. Prices are market ranges rather than clinic quotes, and this general information does not replace medical advice.
An injection that temporarily relaxes a muscle, softening expression lines or reducing muscle bulk.
An injectable gel that restores volume and shapes contours where tissue has thinned or sunk.
Dissolvable threads placed under the skin to pull sagging tissue upward and hold it there.
An umbrella term for treatments that use a specific wavelength of light to destroy one target — pigment, vessels — and little else.
Non-surgical lifting that focuses ultrasound deep in the skin to create heat and tighten tissue.
Non-surgical tightening that heats the dermis with radiofrequency so collagen contracts and rebuilds.
Treating a skin disease in which oil, bacteria and inflammation feed each other, using medication alongside procedures.
Light absorbed by the pigment in a hair follicle destroys the tissue that grows the hair, and little else.
Creating controlled micro-injury around a widened pore so that healing tightens its opening.
Wrinkles have different causes, so the first step is telling them apart and matching the method to the type.
Depressed scars, raised scars and marks that are only discolouration are different problems and are treated in opposite ways.
Injecting material into the skin itself to improve texture and firmness — what is injected changes the purpose entirely.
Burning off raised skin lesions with a laser — quick and inexpensive, but there is a scabbing period.
Fluids and vitamins given intravenously — no downtime, but the evidence for the promised benefits is limited.
The same focused-ultrasound principle as Ulthera at a different price point and device generation.
Injections that aim to reduce local fat — unlike liposuction, they are repeated over several sessions and the change is smaller.
Surgery on the skin, muscle and fat of the eyelid — recovery and reversibility differ sharply by method.
Reshaping the bridge, tip and nostrils — whether an implant is used, or only your own tissue, is what separates the risk and the cost.
Pulling and fixing the loose skin and the fascia beneath it — a different depth of work from thread lifts or ultrasound.
Removing fat and moving fat in are opposite operations — and they are often done together in one procedure.
Moving follicles from the back of the scalp, which resist hair loss, to where hair is thin — priced by the number of grafts.
Reshaping facial bone and soft tissue — where the surgical and non-surgical routes are entirely different propositions.