What is the difference between Juvederm and Restylane fillers?
Both are cross-linked hyaluronic acid placed in the same anatomical planes, and both come from established manufacturers — AbbVie/Allergan and Galderma respectively. The difference is how the gel is built. Juvederm is characterised by its maker as smooth and cohesive, which favours blending across a surface; Restylane is characterised by a particulate structure, which favours holding a defined shape. Each name covers a range of firmness levels, so the practical comparison happens gel by gel at your consultation.
Which filler brand lasts longer, Juvederm or Restylane?
Dear Clinic does not publish a duration for either, because the variables that decide it are yours rather than the carton's: the specific gel chosen, the area, how much that area moves and your own metabolism. A chin holds a correction longer than a lip does in either family. Your director gives you an expected range for the gel your plan actually uses and measures what remains at the review.
Does Dear Clinic stock both, or recommend whichever is in the fridge?
Both families are stocked and both are printed on the published card, along with Belotero and the Korean Chaeum range. That matters because a clinic carrying one family can only recommend that family. Here the plan is written as a property specification from your scan — firmness, plane, volume in tenths of a cc — and the carton that satisfies it is chosen afterwards.
How much do they cost per cc in Seoul?
Juvederm is ₩400,000 (≈ $285) per 1 cc and Restylane is ₩350,000 (≈ $250) per 1 cc on the published Dear Clinic card, with the Korean house family at ₩130,000 (≈ $95) per cc for comparison. Specialty placements are quoted at the specialty-area rate whichever family is used. The volume your design needs is agreed at the diagnosis, so the total is known before anything is opened.
Can the two be combined in one appointment?
Yes, and a face frequently receives two gels, because deep support and a surface finish are different jobs. Pricing follows the volume of each gel used, so the quote is the two volumes added together. What governs the combination is sequence and plane: support goes in first and the finishing pass comes last, with both halves of the face compared after every layer.
Which one is better for lips?
Neither family wins that question outright, because both fields a lighter gel intended for mobile tissue. Lips are the most mobile area either is asked to fill, so softness and integration matter more there than structural strength, and the lighter members of both ranges are designed for exactly that. Which one your director opens depends on the existing lip structure, the ratio being corrected and how much definition you want at the border.
Is one of them safer than the other?
The safety profile that matters is shared. Both are hyaluronic acid, both carry the ordinary risks of bruising, swelling and a lump that needs evening up, and both carry the serious vascular risk that comes from any gel entering a vessel — skin necrosis, and in rare reported cases visual loss. The safeguard is anatomical: known planes, slow low-pressure placement, small increments, and a director who has mapped the danger zones for the area being treated.
Can either one be dissolved if I change my mind?
Yes. Hyaluronic acid from either family responds to a hyaluronidase enzyme injection, so a result can be reduced or cleared. Gel that has been in place for a long time tends to be firmer and may take more than one session to remove completely, which is why Dear Clinic asks to see the area in person before agreeing a dissolving plan.
Is the Korean house filler a reasonable alternative to both?
Frequently, yes. The Chaeum range at ₩130,000 (≈ $95) per cc is licensed cross-linked hyaluronic acid with its own viscosity options, and a well-matched house gel placed in the correct plane at the correct volume does more for a result than a premium gel placed carelessly. Where a design genuinely calls for a specific rheology only an imported range offers, your director says so and explains why.
Do foreign patients pay a different rate for either family?
No. One published card applies to residents and to international patients, and consultation is in English. What a visitor should plan for is settling time: swelling is most visible on the first day, particularly in the lips, so a design placed the evening before a flight home is worth moving earlier in the trip.
Can I decide at the appointment, and when is the clinic open?
Yes — that is the intended sequence. The scan and the consultation come first, the property specification is written from them, and you approve the gel and the volume before anything is opened. Dear Clinic is open 365 days a year, weekends and public holidays included, so the settling review fits inside a short stay.
