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Reading Onda Coolwaves™ results · Cheongdam, Gangnam

Onda Before and After in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

Two audited Onda cases are published below, with what each one does and does not establish. The rest of the page is the standard any Onda pair has to meet before it is worth looking at.

Energy stated in kilojoules Baseline captured on EVE Muse Open 365 days
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The short answer

How an Onda Coolwaves™ pair should be read

An Onda photograph pair carries information only when four things travel with it: how many kilojoules were delivered, how many sessions, how long after the last one the second frame was taken, and whether anything else changed in between. Missing any of those, a pair is an image.

The reason is the mechanism. Coolwaves™ at 2.45 GHz deposit heat into water-rich and fat-rich tissue, and the tissue answers over weeks. So the interval between frames is not a caption detail here; it is the variable that decides whether the second frame is showing change or showing swelling.

Weight is the second variable, and it is the one most often left out. Onda work is localised, while the body it sits on is not. A few kilograms gained or lost between two frames will move a jawline or a flank more visibly than any energy device, which is why a pair without a weight note has quietly left its biggest confounder outside the frame.

The treatments themselves are documented on the Onda lifting page and the Onda body contouring page, and the platform sits in context on the lifting and tightening hub.

A client leans into the EVE 3D skin analysis unit while the scan is reviewed on a tablet
The baseline is an instrument capture taken at a fixed distance under fixed light, which is what makes a later comparison mean anything.
Before & After

The audited Onda cases Dear Clinic can publish

Unretouched cases treated at Dear Clinic, shown with consent. Individual results vary.

Onda Coolwaves facial case at Dear Clinic — same patient photographed from the front before and after a facial Onda plan
Onda lifting · facial case · front view, before / after, same person under the same conditions. Individual results may vary.
Onda Coolwaves facial case at Dear Clinic — same patient photographed from the front, lower-face contour before and after
Onda lifting · facial case · lower-face contour, before / after, same person under the same conditions. 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.

Both pairs above are facial Onda cases, and the caption says so on purpose. The audited archive holds no body Onda pair that clears the same consent and captioning standard, so none is shown, and a jawline photograph placed under a body heading would be a false label on a real case. If body work is what brought you here, the honest position is that your own baseline is what you will be comparing against.

Timeline

When an Onda frame is worth taking

Four windows after a Coolwaves™ session. Each answers a different question, and a frame shot in the wrong one answers none.

Window 01

The hours after the applicator lifts

Warmth and a pink flush over the treated ground, sometimes a firm or tender feel. None of that is an outcome; it is tissue answering heat, and a photograph taken now records the answer instead of the change.

Window 02

The first fortnight after an Onda session

The zone can still feel firm and read slightly fuller than it did. People often photograph here because they are impatient, and the frame they get is unusable for comparison.

Window 03

The weeks the tissue actually takes

Firming from this kind of heating builds gradually. The indexed microwave studies listed at the foot of this page assess their participants across months of follow-up, one of them as far out as nine months, and that is the window a comparison belongs in.

Window 04

The repeat question at review

How long any effect holds varies with skin, age and weight, and no interval is promised in advance. Whether a further kilojoule unit is worth buying is decided at review with the earlier frame in view.

Individual results may vary, and the windows above describe a pattern, and your tissue has agreed to no schedule. If a pair you are reading carries no interval at all — no week count, no month count — then the one variable that decides its meaning has been left out of it.

Camera conditions

Posture, distance and light in an Onda comparison frame

Onda is asked to change a contour, and a contour is the easiest thing in photography to move without treating anything. Drop a chin five degrees and a jaw outline sharpens. Stand on one hip instead of two feet and a waist narrows. Every one of those is free, immediate and worthless.

Same stance in both frames: weight on both feet, arms in the same position, shoulders square to the lens.
Same camera height and distance with the same lens. Stepping closer with a short lens reshapes an outline on its own.
Same light source and direction. Side light manufactures contour; flat light erases it.
No filter, no smoothing app, no retouching, and the same clothing or the same bare zone in both frames.
A fixed landmark in the frame — a navel, a jaw point, a mole — so the two images can actually be aligned.
Skin analysis room at Dear Clinic with an imaging camera used to capture the baseline before a lifting or contouring plan
Fixed distance, fixed light, fixed position. A phone photograph taken at home cannot reproduce any of the three.
Disclosure

What an Onda pair has to declare before it proves anything

Camera discipline is the mechanical half. The other half is what the caption admits. Because this platform is sold by delivered energy, the disclosure list is short and specific: the kilojoules delivered, the number of sessions behind the second frame, the interval since the last one, and the zone that was treated. A pair that shows a result from an unstated number of units is not describing a treatment anybody can ask for.

Then the confounders. Weight change between frames belongs in the caption, and so does anything else done to the same area in the meantime — a course of injectables, a different energy platform, a filler session. Consent belongs there too, which is why the archive any clinic can publish is always smaller than the archive it holds.

Risks belong in the same frame as results, and leaving them out edits the picture before you ever see it. Heat-based contouring brings warmth and redness on the day and several days of firmness or tenderness; less commonly a tender nodule, a patch of bruising, or a small burn where heat concentrated in one spot.

Dear, Knowhow

How an Onda outcome is measured at Dear Clinic

01 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

Your Onda baseline is a capture, not a recollection

EVE Muse 3D imaging with five-light-source AI analysis is taken before the energy plan is written, at a fixed distance under fixed light. It is that capture, alongside the hands-on reading of the zone, that your director compares the follow-up against. Memory of how a jawline looked in March is not evidence.

02 — THE FULL ARSENAL

A result that cannot be demonstrated is not sold

Where the reading finds thin tissue with nothing for microwaves to couple into, we do not recommend Onda, and a Thermage FLX or Density plan is quoted instead. Matching the platform to the layer is what makes any later photograph worth the trouble of taking.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

The hand that ran the passes reads the follow-up

Onda sessions here are director-performed, and so is the review. The person who chose where the applicator dwelled is the person who has to account for what the second frame shows.

In the clinic

The devices and hands behind this treatment

Onda Coolwaves microwave platform by DEKA, seen from a front three-quarter angle
Onda Coolwaves microwave platform by DEKA, seen from a front three-quarter angle
Onda Coolwaves microwave platform by DEKA with its two applicator arms
Onda Coolwaves microwave platform by DEKA with its two applicator arms
Pricing

What the sessions behind an Onda pair are quoted at here

The facial unit is 60 kJ at ₩500,000 (≈ $355) and the body unit is 80 kJ at ₩650,000 (≈ $465). Reading a comparison photograph without knowing how many of those units stand behind it is the same as reading a price with the quantity removed.
Unit behind the frameWhat it deliveredRate
Facial Onda · 60 kJOne facial energy unit, apportioned across the zones on the plan₩500,000 (≈ $355)
Body Onda · 80 kJOne body energy unit through the body handpiece, across an agreed zone₩650,000 (≈ $465)
Baseline and reviewEVE Muse capture, hands-on reading, and the follow-up comparisonconfirmed at consultation

Rates as published in September 2026, quoted identically whichever passport sits on the file. Every published figure in the clinic is on the full price list.

Caution

Taking your own Onda follow-up frames without fooling yourself

Most comparisons are ruined at home, by people acting in good faith with a phone.

Shoot at the same hour of day. Morning and evening are different bodies, particularly around an abdomen.
Mark the spot you stand on and the spot the phone sits on, and use them again. A metre of difference is a different photograph.
Turn off every beautification setting your phone applies by default, including the ones it does not announce.
Write the date, the kilojoules and your weight on the file. A frame without those three will not be interpretable in three months.
Bring the frames to the review instead of deciding on them alone. Reading a contour against a baseline is a skill your director practises daily.
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

Onda before and after, asked and answered

How long after an Onda session should the after photo be taken?
Weeks, not days. The tissue answers this kind of heating gradually, and the indexed microwave studies listed on this page follow their participants across months, one of them out to nine. A frame taken in the first fortnight records settling instead of change.
Why does Dear Clinic publish only two Onda before-and-after pairs?
Because only two cases in the audited archive carry both consent and a caption that survives scrutiny. The number follows from the standard and says nothing about how much Onda work is done here, and padding the page with unlabelled frames would defeat the point of having a standard.
Are there body Onda before-and-after photos?
Not published ones. Both pairs on this page are facial cases and are captioned as such. No body Onda pair has cleared the same consent and captioning audit, so instead of reusing a facial frame under a body heading, the page says plainly that your own baseline is what you will be comparing against.
What should an Onda photo caption tell me?
Four things at minimum: the kilojoules delivered, the number of sessions, the interval since the last one, and the zone treated. Weight change and anything else done to the same area in between belong there too, because both move a contour more than most people expect.
Can I judge Onda results from my own phone photographs?
You can, if you fix the conditions. Same hour, same standing spot, same phone position, no beautification filters, and the date and kilojoule figure written on the file. Compare home frames against home frames; a clinic capture and a phone photo are not the same measurement.
How much change should I expect from one Onda unit?
No figure is published for that, and any clinic offering one before examining you is guessing. What a unit buys is a measured quantity of energy delivered to an agreed zone. What it produces depends on the tissue that received it, which is why the review exists.
Does weight change invalidate an Onda comparison?
It does not invalidate it, but it has to be declared. A few kilograms either way will move a jaw outline or a flank visibly on its own, so a caption that omits weight has left the largest confounding variable out of the comparison it is asking you to trust.
Why is the interval more important for Onda than the number of sessions?
Both matter, and the interval is the one people skip. Sessions tell you how much energy was delivered; the interval tells you whether the tissue had time to answer it. A three-session pair photographed a week after the last session still shows an unfinished process.
Can I see my own Onda baseline before I decide?
Yes. The EVE Muse capture and the hands-on reading of the zone happen before any energy plan is written, and your director goes through what they show with you. If the reading does not support Onda, that is said at the same appointment and no session is booked.
Do the published Onda cases mean I will get the same outcome?
No, and nothing on this page implies it. The two published pairs are individual cases shown with consent, under the same conditions in both frames. Individual results vary with tissue, age, weight and the plan that was actually delivered.
Can I have the assessment and a session in one visit to Seoul?
Usually, since Onda involves no injection. The baseline is captured the same day, and the follow-up frame is then taken at the interval your director sets, from home if you have travelled. Dear Clinic is open 365 days a year.
What do you do with my photographs afterwards?
They stay in your file as the reference for your own review. Nothing is published without written consent, which is separate from the consent to be treated, and it can be declined without any effect on your plan or your rate.
Consultation

Start with a baseline instead of somebody else’s photograph

Tell us the zone and what changed about it. Answered in English as soon as possible.

Scientific Evidence

What the indexed studies measured and over how long

Follow-up length is the reason these three papers are cited on a page about photographs. Each assesses microwave body technology over a defined window, and one of them states a nine-month follow-up in its own title.

Every entry resolves to a DOI and is listed as literature about the technology. No outcome figure from them is reproduced here, because reported results vary widely between the individuals studied.

  1. Ruiz-Rosas AI et al. Microwave technology for the treatment of abdomen localized adiposity 9 months follow-up. Dermatology Reports. 2023. doi:10.4081/dr.2023.9739
  2. Arrigoni F et al. Non-invasive system delivering microwaves energy for localized adiposity reduction, skin laxity, and cellulite: Clinical evidence. Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery. 2024. doi:10.25259/jcas_7_2024
  3. Bonan P et al. Ergebnisse zur Reduzierung von subkutanem Fettgewebe mithilfe eines neuartigen, auf Mikrowellentechnologie basierenden Body-Contouring-Systems. Die Dermatologie. 2023. doi:10.1007/s00105-023-05200-y

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

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