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Area Axis — The Mandibular Border

Jaw Lifting in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

A jawline is an edge, and the eye reads an edge as the place where light stops. Six energy platforms in this building work on that edge at four different depths. This page sorts them by depth, by unit and by published rate.

Six platforms, six depths Microwave unit ₩500,000 (≈ $355) / 60 kJ Open 365 days
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Definition

What jaw lifting means here, when the target is the border itself

Jaw lifting at Dear Clinic is energy work aimed at the tissue sitting on and just above the lower jaw border, so that the line between face and neck reads as one continuous edge again. Focused ultrasound, monopolar radiofrequency, microwave and multi-wavelength passes are the four kinds of physics used. Nothing is cut and nothing is removed.

The distinction worth holding is between a pocket and a line. A soft bag hanging forward of the border is a volume that has moved, treated as its own finding on the jowl sagging page. This page is about the border’s definition: whether the edge stays crisp from chin to angle, or dissolves along the way into the plane beneath.

Definition is also separate from width. A lower face that reads wide from an overbuilt chewing muscle is a muscle question, covered under jaw botox. Energy does not slim a muscle and injections do not tighten a dermis, so the consultation settles which of the two you walked in with.

A client leans into the EVE 3D skin analysis unit while the scan is reviewed on a tablet
The border is scored at three angles before any handpiece is named, because a jawline photographs differently at each of them.
Depth

Four depths a jaw border can be worked at, and what each one is good for

Depth is the variable that separates these machines; the unit and the rate follow from it.

DEPTH 01

The deep fibrous layer under the jaw border

Focused ultrasound places energy in discrete points at a set depth, and Ultherapy Prime works at 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 mm with live imaging to 8 mm before the shot. This is the layer people mean when they say a jaw has dropped.

DEPTH 02

The dermis running along the jaw

Monopolar radiofrequency heats a broad field at dermal level instead of a point. Thermage FLX, Density and XERF sit here, differing in tip, session size and how energy is spread across the pass.

DEPTH 03

The water-rich tissue just beneath the skin

Coolwaves™ microwaves are taken up selectively by tissue holding water and fat, the layer that blurs a jaw border in profile. Onda is the only platform here that works this way, dosed in kilojoules.

DEPTH 04

The surface and the shallow dermis

New Titanium (Portra Quattro) runs multi-wavelength passes across the surface and the layer below it, dosed in kilojoules. It is the mild end of the list, planned for texture along the jaw as much as firmness.

Most faces present at more than one of those depths at once, and the reading settles which is dominant — the depth worth paying for first. Spending the same budget on the third-ranked depth is how people end up saying an energy session did nothing.

The Platforms

Every platform Dear Clinic points at a jawline, with its unit and its rate

Each is stocked on 5F and 7F, published on our rate list, and carries a page of its own with the full protocol.

PlatformMechanism and depthSold inWhat it does at the jaw borderListed rate
Ultherapy PrimeImaging-guided focused ultrasound (MFU-V) at 1.5 / 3.0 / 4.5 mm, imaged to 8 mm100 shotsPoint heating in the deep layer; the shot map sets the coverage₩400,000 (≈ $285)
Thermage FLXMonopolar radiofrequency with AccuREP™, dermis-level, wide field600-shot tipOne sealed tip spread over the lower face, for skin quality along the line₩1,900,000 (≈ $1,355)
Density — Classic tipHigh-density monopolar radiofrequency, dermis-level300 shotsEntry tier of the three-tip line, planned across visits₩700,000 (≈ $500)
Density — High tipThe same platform, High tip fitted300 shotsFirmer delivery over the same field₩900,000 (≈ $645)
Density — Alpha tipThe top tip of the Density line300 shotsUsed when the jaw field is the main event of the plan₩1,300,000 (≈ $930)
Density — Alpha tip, double sessionThe same Alpha tip, twice the shot count600 shotsFull lower-face coverage in one sitting₩2,000,000 (≈ $1,430)
XERFNext-generation radiofrequency built for uniform delivery at depth300 shotsAn even field along the jaw₩1,300,000 (≈ $930)
XERF, double sessionThe same platform, twice the shot count600 shotsLower face and jaw in one appointment₩1,600,000 (≈ $1,145)
Onda Coolwaves™DEKA microwaves, taken up by water-rich tissue60 kJSoft fullness that blurs the border in profile₩500,000 (≈ $355)
New Titanium (Portra Quattro)Multi-wavelength passes at the surface and shallow dermis40 kJThe mild pass — texture and tone as well as firmness₩600,000 (≈ $430)
Eye Thermage — the adjacent lineThe same radiofrequency platform, eye tip fitted450-shot tipTreats the eyelid field — listed because it sits beside the jaw rows on the card₩2,200,000 (≈ $1,570)

Eleven published lines, one border. The row your plan lands on comes from the reading, and the whole card sits on the published price list. The lifting and tightening category page compares the same platforms across the rest of the face.

Telling Them Apart

The three questions that separate one jaw platform from the next

Does it heat a point or a field. Ultrasound deposits energy in discrete coagulation points at a chosen depth; radiofrequency warms a volume of dermis across a pass. A border that has lost deep support wants points. Skin that has thinned along the jaw wants a field. The reading tells them apart.
What the unit on the rate card measures. A 100-shot ultrasound block, a sealed 600-shot tip and a 60 kJ microwave session are three different purchases, and comparing their rates with the units stripped off is the commonest way a jaw quote is misread.
Whether the tissue it needs is present. Microwave energy has to couple into water-rich tissue. Where the reading finds a lean jaw with none of it, we do not recommend Onda, whatever the enquiry asked for. The logic runs the other way too: a deep-layer platform on a face with no descent buys very little.
Where Density and XERF differ. Both are dermal-depth radiofrequency sold in 300-shot sessions here. Density is tip-graded, so a plan steps through Classic, High and Alpha as the reading warrants. XERF carries one delivery at two session sizes and is chosen where an even spread across the whole field beats a graded peak.
Sequencing

How jaw sessions are ordered when a plan carries more than one platform

Most jaw plans here are a sequence with dates, and the gaps do as much work as the sessions.

STEP 01

The dominant depth is treated first

Whichever layer the scan scores worst takes the first appointment, at full unit count. Splitting a budget evenly across three depths on day one buys three underdosed fields and no read on which of them was worth it.

STEP 02

The review comes before the second platform

Heat-driven change builds over weeks, so a second platform booked too early is bought blind. Your director sets the interval and writes the review date into the plan at the first visit, and the next session is confirmed only at that review.

STEP 03

Any pairing inside one visit is a clinical decision

Whether two platforms can share one appointment depends on the depths involved and on your skin that day. The director decides it at the consultation, and where the answer is no, the reason is that stacking heat in one field raises the burn risk for no added benefit.

No month figure for how long a jaw result holds is published here. Duration turns on age, skin thickness, sun history, weight and how your collagen answers heat, so you are given a conservative expectation, a review date and the unit rate for whatever comes next.

The Other Answer

When a jawline is better served by an injection than by a console

Four readings send people off this page entirely, and each is common enough to name.

Width from an overbuilt chewing muscle. If the lower face bulges when you clench and softens when you relax, no amount of heat changes it. Botulinum toxin into the muscle is the matched route — see the square jaw toxin page and how toxin slims a jawline.
A border short of structure. Where the jaw angle or chin never projected far enough to cast a line, tightening the skin over it changes nothing visible. Hyaluronic acid along the border is the structural answer — see jawline filler and chin filler.
Fine crepe along the jaw with the outline intact. That is a skin-quality finding. Small superficial toxin doses across the jawline field carry their own published line on the skin botox page, and a mild multi-wavelength pass may be discussed beside it.
Skin loose enough to gather into a fold that stays put. That reading points past everything offered here, energy and injection alike, and you are told so at the first appointment.

Threads sit between the two families: they move tissue mechanically on the day along a vector mapped above the border, priced per thread, and they suit a border that has genuinely dropped in skin of reasonable quality. See the thread lift page.

Before & After

Jaw and lower-face cases treated and photographed at Dear

Unretouched cases treated at Dear Clinic and shown with consent.

Onda Coolwaves facial case at Dear Clinic photographed front-on before and after a microwave lifting plan
Onda lifting · facial case · front view, before and after a Coolwaves™ plan. Individual results may vary.
Onda Coolwaves facial case at Dear Clinic showing the lower face and jaw area before and after treatment
Onda lifting · facial case · lower face and jaw area, before and after. Individual results may vary.
Onda Coolwaves facial case at Dear Clinic showing the contour of the lower face before and after a microwave session plan
Onda lifting · facial case · contour of the lower face, before and after. Individual results may vary.
Thread lift facial case at Dear Clinic photographed before and after threads were placed along a mapped vector
Thread lift · facial case · before and after threads placed on a mapped vector. Individual results may vary.

All photos are unretouched before/after cases of the same person under the same conditions, treated at Dear Clinic and shown with consent. Individual results may vary; no specific outcome is implied or promised.

Each case is labelled with the treatment it received, and all four are face cases. Reading a jaw comparison fairly starts with matching chin height and lens distance, because two centimetres of chin lift sharpens a border on its own.

Dear, Knowhow

Why a jaw border plan is written differently at Dear

01 — THE FULL ARSENAL

Six jaw platforms on two floors, and no quota on any of them

Imaging-guided ultrasound, three radiofrequency systems, a microwave platform and a multi-wavelength system sit across 5F and 7F, beside the toxin and filler lines that answer what energy cannot. Because no console has to be kept busy, a consultation ending in one 60 kJ session, or in none, costs us nothing to give.

02 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

The jaw border is scored before a console is named

EVE Muse captures in 3D under five light sources with AI analysis, and the border is read at three angles beside the hands-on check. Depth first, device second.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

The hand that drew the shot map runs the passes

Along the jaw the margin is narrow: a transducer over bone, or a pass stacked twice in one spot, is where burns and temporary numbness come from. Your session is director-performed by the doctor who read your scan, and the same doctor takes the review.

Ultherapy Prime console showing the live ultrasound image of the skin layers during a lifting session at Dear Clinic
DeepSEE™ visualisation puts the layers on screen before the line is placed.
Hand in a white coat holding the Thermage handpiece with a treatment tip fitted, the radiofrequency platform used across the jaw field
A sealed tip carries its own shot count, so the coverage quoted is the coverage the consumable allows.
In the clinic

The devices and hands behind this treatment

Ultherapy Prime system at Dear Clinic Cheongdam, seen from the front with its treatment screen
Transducers are changed by depth, so one platform covers three of them in a single sitting
Ultherapy Prime console seen from the front, showing the ultrasound planning screen
Ultherapy Prime console seen from the front, showing the ultrasound planning screen
Pricing

How much does jaw lifting
cost in Gangnam

The entry point on this border is a ₩600,000 (≈ $430) multi-wavelength pass at 40 kJ or a ₩500,000 (≈ $355) microwave session at 60 kJ. Imaging-guided ultrasound starts at ₩400,000 (≈ $285) per 100 shots and is quoted from the shot map. Radiofrequency runs from ₩700,000 (≈ $500) for 300 shots on the Classic tip up to ₩1,900,000 (≈ $1,355) for a full 600-shot tip.

Those are five different purchases wearing similar-looking numbers: a block of ultrasound shots, a sealed consumable tip, a graded tip at a fixed shot count, and two energy budgets in kilojoules. What decides your own total is how much of the jaw field the plan covers, written down and agreed before a consumable is opened.

International visitors pay the same published figures as Korean patients, with no surcharge. Consultation and aftercare arrangements are explained at your appointment. Density carries four rates because the tip is graded — ₩900,000 (≈ $645) High, ₩1,300,000 (≈ $930) Alpha at 300 shots, ₩2,000,000 (≈ $1,430) at 600 — and XERF two, ₩1,300,000 (≈ $930) and ₩1,600,000 (≈ $1,145). The eye tip at ₩2,200,000 (≈ $1,570) belongs to the eyelid field.

If the reading says your jaw border needs nothing this year, that is the sentence you get, and it costs us the booking.

Dear 10 Selection, Dear Clinic October 2026 event (prices in Korean won, VAT excluded, identical for locals and international visitors): Ultherapy Prime 400 shots ₩1,320,000 · Ultherapy Prime 500 shots ₩1,650,000 · Ultherapy Prime 600 shots ₩1,980,000 · Thermage FLX 600 shots ₩1,900,000 · XERF 600 shots ₩1,600,000 · Dear Total Face Care: Ultherapy Prime 500 + Eye Thermage 450 + PN eye booster 1cc ₩3,700,000 · Thermage FLX 600 + PN booster HB 4cc + CaHA collagen booster 1 vial ₩3,400,000 · Ultherapy Prime 400 + PN healer 4cc (LDM and numbing included) ₩1,900,000 · Eye Thermage 450 + PDLLA eye booster 2cc ₩2,100,000
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 Dear 10 Selection, Dear Clinic October 2026 event (prices in Korean won, VAT excluded): Skin Revital Care: Potenza pumping + PDLLA skin booster 5cc ₩500,000 · PN booster HB 4cc ₩750,000 · PN healer 4cc + PN eye booster 2cc (LDM and numbing included) ₩850,000 · HA skin-quality booster 2cc ₩700,000 · RE2O 1 session ₩700,000 · Defined Volume Care: Eye Light 1cc + PN eye booster 1cc ₩1,050,000 · Chin filler 1cc + jawline filler 1cc ₩850,000 · PLLA collagen stimulator 2 vials ₩1,500,000 · Directors' Picks (Dr. Woojae Jung · Dr. Daeun Jung): Density Alpha 300 shots + PN booster HB 2cc (both cheeks) ₩1,100,000 · Potenza pumping + PDLLA skin booster 5cc, 3 sessions ₩1,150,000 · PN booster HB 4cc with PDLLA skin booster 2cc (both cheeks) ₩790,000 · Onda 80 kJ + Titanium 60 kJ ₩990,000
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Caution

Recovery along the jaw, and the risks each platform carries

After focused ultrasound. Tenderness along the treated lines, sometimes small raised welts that settle within the hour, and an ache on chewing for a few days. Temporary numbness along the jaw can occur and resolves. A burn is the named risk wherever heat is placed, which is why the transducer is kept off bone.
After monopolar radiofrequency. Redness that fades within hours and a warm, tight field for some days. Uneven contact, or a pass stacked twice over one spot, is the mechanism behind a burn or blister, so hand pressure matters at every sweep.
After a microwave session. Warmth and a pink flush over the treated ground, with firmness or tenderness for several days; less commonly a tender nodule, bruising, or a small burn where heat concentrated in one place.
Common to all of them. Saunas, hot yoga and alcohol wait a few days, sunscreen along the jaw is daily, and makeup goes back on once the flush has gone. Comfort measures during the session are confirmed at your consultation.
Call, do not wait. Lasting pain, spreading swelling, blistering, colour change or numbness that does not resolve means contacting the clinic immediately, ahead of the review.

Tell your director about implanted electronic devices, metal in the field, previous threads or filler along the jaw, neuromuscular conditions, pregnancy and breastfeeding. Several change the platform and one or two rule a session out.

Medical Team

Five doctors, one standard

Director-performed treatment is a Dear promise — your procedure is planned and performed by the doctors below.

Dr. Jemin Kim — Medical Director and Founder, Dear Clinic
Dr. Jemin Kim
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Medical Director · Founder
Dr. Sanghyun Lee — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Sanghyun Lee
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee
Chosun University College of Medicine · Residency, Samsung Medical Center
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Daeun Jung — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Daeun Jung
Ajou University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Woojae Jung — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Woojae Jung
Seoul National University — B.S. in Medicine
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
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FAQ

Jaw lifting in Gangnam, answered

What does jaw lifting actually change along the jawline?
It works on the tissue sitting on and just above the lower jaw border so the edge reads as one continuous line again. Heat platforms contract and rebuild collagen at a chosen depth; microwave energy addresses the soft fullness that blurs the border in profile. Change is measured from your own starting point.
Which platform is used for a jaw border that has lost its edge?
Whichever one reaches the depth that scored worst. Deep loss of support points to imaging-guided ultrasound at 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 mm; skin thinned along the length of the jaw points to monopolar radiofrequency; soft, water-rich fullness under the border points to Coolwaves™ microwave. The scan settles it and the platform is named second.
How much does jaw lifting cost in Gangnam?
The published lines are ₩600,000 (≈ $430) for a 40 kJ multi-wavelength pass, ₩500,000 (≈ $355) for 60 kJ of microwave, ₩400,000 (≈ $285) per 100 ultrasound shots, ₩700,000 (≈ $500) to ₩2,000,000 (≈ $1,430) across the Density tips, ₩1,300,000 (≈ $930) or ₩1,600,000 (≈ $1,145) for XERF, and ₩1,900,000 (≈ $1,355) for a radiofrequency tip. Coverage decides your total.
Is Ultherapy Prime or Thermage FLX the right choice for my jaw?
They answer different findings. Ultherapy Prime places energy as discrete points at a set depth, imaged to 8 mm with DeepSEE™ first, which suits a border whose deep support has given way. Thermage FLX heats a wide dermal field through one sealed 600-shot tip, which suits skin quality along the line. Where both are present, the dominant finding is treated first.
What is the difference between Density and XERF on a jawline?
Both work at dermal depth and both are sold in 300-shot sessions. Density is tip-graded, so a plan steps through Classic at ₩700,000 (≈ $500), High at ₩900,000 (≈ $645) and Alpha at ₩1,300,000 (≈ $930). XERF is built around uniform delivery at depth, at ₩1,300,000 (≈ $930) and ₩1,600,000 (≈ $1,145).
Can Onda be used on the jaw, or only on the body?
The same DEKA platform runs facial and body handpieces. On this border it is aimed at the soft, water-rich tissue filling the angle between jaw and neck, dosed at ₩500,000 (≈ $355) for 60 kJ. Where the reading finds no water-rich layer to couple into, we do not recommend it.
Where does New Titanium (Portra Quattro) fit into a jaw plan?
At the mild end. It runs multi-wavelength passes at the surface and shallow dermis, dosed at 40 kJ and published at ₩600,000 (≈ $430). People take it for texture and tone along the jaw as much as firmness, and it suits a first, low-commitment energy appointment.
Can two platforms be used on my jaw in the same appointment?
Sometimes. The director who read your scan decides on the day, and it turns on which depths are involved and on your skin at that appointment. Where the answer is no, stacking heat in one field would raise the burn risk without adding benefit, so the second session gets a written interval.
Is jaw lifting the same thing as jaw botox or a jawline filler?
No. Jaw lifting is energy work on skin and soft tissue. Toxin into the chewing muscle addresses width, a separate finding with its own page. Hyaluronic acid along the border adds structure where the jaw angle or chin never projected enough to cast a line. Plans combining families are written as a sequence with dates.
Why is an eye tip listed beside the jaw rates?
Because it belongs to the same radiofrequency platform and sits beside the jaw rows on the card. Eye Thermage is a 450-shot tip for the eyelid field at ₩2,200,000 (≈ $1,570). It is named here so nobody books it expecting work along the border.
What are the risks of energy work along the jaw?
Redness, warmth and tenderness are the common ones, with an ache on chewing after ultrasound and a tight, warm band after radiofrequency. A burn or blister is the named risk on every heat platform, and temporary numbness along the jaw can occur and resolves. Microwave sessions less commonly leave a tender nodule or bruising.
I am in Seoul for a few days — can a jaw plan fit?
The scan, the consultation and one energy session usually fit into a single appointment once suitability is confirmed, and the review can be done from home at the interval your director sets. We open 10:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 10:00 to 16:00 at weekends and public holidays, 365 days. Send your dates and we reply in English as soon as possible.
Consultation

Ask which depth your jaw border is losing

Your questions, answered in English as soon as possible.

Scientific Evidence

Science behind focused ultrasound at the lower face and jaw — peer-reviewed references

The five entries below are indexed studies of microfocused ultrasound with visualisation, the imaging-guided technology behind the deepest row on this page. Two assess the lower face and neck specifically, and two report on Asian skin.

Each is given as title, journal and year with a verifiable DOI, and none is evidence of an outcome for your own jaw.

  1. Friedman O, et al. Intense focused ultrasound for neck and lower face skin tightening a prospective study. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. 2020. doi:10.1111/jocd.13313
  2. Suh D, et al. Intense Focused Ultrasound Tightening in Asian Skin: Clinical and Pathologic Results. Dermatologic Surgery. 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02094.x
  3. Fabi S. Microfocused Ultrasound With Visualization for Skin Tightening and Lifting. Dermatologic Surgery. 2014. doi:10.1097/dss.0000000000000233
  4. Lu P, et al. Quantitative Analysis of Face and Neck Skin Tightening by Microfocused Ultrasound With Visualization in Asians. Dermatologic Surgery. 2017. doi:10.1097/dss.0000000000001181
  5. Khan U, et al. A Systematic Review of the Clinical Efficacy of Micro-Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Skin Rejuvenation and Tightening. Cureus. 2021. doi:10.7759/cureus.20163

References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.

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