D-ARC stands for Decreasing Acnes Solution — Dear Clinic's signature programme for acne and the marks it leaves behind. It sorts scars by their structure and treats them in stages inside a single protocol: the deep layer first, then the mid layer, then the surface, with the components drawn from your diagnosis.
Post-acne skin is rarely one problem. A single face can carry red marks left by inflammation, shallow dips where tissue has thinned, and narrow pits anchored by fibrous tethering — each of which answers to a different kind of energy at a different depth. Treating all of them with the same setting flattens the good areas and under-treats the stubborn ones.
So D-ARC is written as a sequence. Your director reads the depth, the shape and the degree of fibrosis of each scar group, decides which layer has to move first, and orders the components from that. A step that would not earn its place on your face is left out, and the ones left out are named at the consultation.
Depth, shape and the state of the tissue around each scar decide the order of treatment — and sometimes decide that the scar stages have to wait.
If your skin is still in an active inflammatory phase, the scar stages wait: we treat the acne first, because scar work on a face that keeps producing lesions is paid for twice. D-ARC is also not the right tool for raised keloid or hypertrophic scarring, and where the scan shows that we say so at the diagnosis visit and route you to the treatment that does suit it.
Unretouched cases treated at Dear Clinic, shown with consent.
All photos are unretouched cases of the same person under the same conditions, treated at Dear Clinic. Each photo shows only the treatment it is labelled with. Individual results may vary.
Each stage prepares the tissue for the one that follows, and the interval between them is set at diagnosis.
The EVE Muse scan, a director consultation and a written stage order with intervals. You leave knowing which components are in your plan, which were left out, and why.
Depressed scars are often tethered from below, so the first stage works underneath them — loosening the tissue that pins the floor of the scar and supporting regeneration in the space that opens up.
Once the base can move, the middle layer is stimulated to reorganise texture and support the thinned tissue around the scar, so the dip fills from within instead of being covered over.
The final stage evens the marks and refines the surface, spaced to your skin's regeneration cycle. Pushing this stage too early is the most common way a scar programme stalls.
At review the remaining plan is revised: stages that have done their work are dropped, a zone that lagged gets one more pass, and a maintenance rhythm is agreed if you want to hold the result.
| Single-device session | D-ARC Solution | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Whatever the device is good at | Your scar map from the EVE Muse scan |
| Order of work | One setting for the whole face | Deep layer → mid layer → surface |
| Mixed scar depths | Overtreats the shallow areas or underserves the deep ones | Each scar group gets its own depth and energy |
| Intervals | — | Matched to regeneration and set at diagnosis |
| Published price | Per session, e.g. ₩250,000 for standard-tip Potenza | ₩800,000 core programme; laser stages quoted after diagnosis |
All five components sit in the same building. A scar map that calls for three of them is booked as three, and the two left out are named at diagnosis.
How much resistance the needle meets, how the tissue releases, when to stop — on a narrow fibrotic scar these are read by hand as much as set on a screen, and the intensity is adjusted on the day to what the skin is doing that week.
One minute inside the clinic in Cheongdam — the 3D scan, the doctor's plan, the treatment rooms.
| Programme | Dear Signature staged programme for acne and acne scars |
|---|---|
| Layers | Deep → mid → surface, inside one protocol |
| Core components | Potenza RF microneedling · Juvelook 5 cc · CureJet |
| Scar types | Boxcar · ice-pick · rolling · red post-inflammatory marks |
| Diagnosis | EVE Muse 3D scan with five-light-source AI analysis, repeated at review |
| Sessions | No fixed number — the stage count follows your scar map |
| Sensation | Heat, prickling and pressure; comfort measures confirmed at consultation |
The D-ARC core programme — Potenza RF microneedling, a 5 cc Juvelook dose and CureJet delivery — is published at ₩800,000 (≈ $570). Where your scar map calls for pico or fractional laser stages on top of that core, those are quoted separately after the diagnosis and approved by you before anything begins. The published rates are the same for local and international patients.
Published rates as of September 2026; KRW is what you pay and USD is shown for reference. You approve every component and the total before the first stage, and nothing is added on the day.
Redness, warmth, fine crusting, temporary swelling and, on darker skin, a risk of post-inflammatory pigment change are all named before you agree to a plan.
The components inside D-ARC are individually documented in the peer-reviewed literature — in particular fractional radiofrequency microneedling for atrophic acne scars and pores, and needle-free jet delivery as an injection route. Each study describes findings in its own group, not results at Dear Clinic.
Fractional RF microneedling for atrophic acne scars in an Asian group.
Split-face comparison of fractional CO2 laser and microneedle RF for acne scars.
Pilot split-face study of two fractional RF approaches for atrophic scars.
Pooled analysis of fractional radiofrequency for acne and acne scars.
Needle injection compared with a needle-free jet injector as a delivery route.
Short videos from the clinic in Cheongdam. Tap a video for sound.
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