Ultherapy Prime is the newest generation of Ultherapy, a non-surgical lifting treatment that delivers focused ultrasound energy to the SMAS layer — the same layer addressed in surgical facelifts — to stimulate collagen regeneration. Compared with classic Ultherapy, Prime images deeper (up to 8 mm), treats about 20% faster, and shows your skin layers live on screen while the doctor works.
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) passes through the surface without cutting it and concentrates thermal energy at precise depths — 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 mm. The result builds over weeks as new collagen forms: firmer contours, a cleaner jawline and improved elasticity, with little downtime.
Prime works at depth, and depth is not everyone's problem. The EVE Muse 3D scan is what separates the two pictures, and it happens before any quote is written.
Six other lifting platforms stand in the same room: Thermage FLX, Density, XERF, Onda, New Titanium and Shurink Universe. Where the scan reads thin, crepey surface over an intact SMAS, we do not recommend Prime: a director prices a radiofrequency or combined plan for you in that same appointment and explains why it is the better spend — writing that instead of Prime costs this clinic nothing.
A HIFU result is a shot map before it is anything else. The map is drawn zone by zone off your 3D scan, and the count per zone is fixed before the first line goes in.
Your 3D capture and five-light-source reading come first, before any treatment is named.
How many hundreds the plan runs to, and which of the 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 mm depths each zone is treated at.
You see and approve the exact shot count; comfort measures are confirmed at consultation.
The live image confirms, line by line, that the layer under the transducer is the one the map intended.
Arranged before you leave. Judge the change at two to three months.
| Classic Ultherapy | Ultherapy Prime | Thermage FLX | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | Focused ultrasound | Focused ultrasound | Radiofrequency |
| Works on | SMAS layer (lift) | SMAS layer (lift) | Surface laxity and crepiness |
| Live imaging | Down to 4.5 mm | Down to 8 mm · 2× larger field · 35% larger display | — |
| Treatment time | Baseline | About 20% faster, finer energy delivery | — |
| Chosen when the scan shows | — | Descent at the SMAS layer | Surface crepiness over an intact SMAS |
Dear carries both energies; your diagnosis decides which one is written on the chart — sometimes both in sequence.
With focused ultrasound it is the placement of each line that shows up in the mirror three months later — which is why the transducer stays in a director's hands.
One minute inside the clinic in Cheongdam — the 3D scan, the doctor's plan, the treatment rooms.
| Method | High-intensity focused ultrasound at the SMAS layer, no incision |
|---|---|
| Focal depths | 1.5 · 3.0 · 4.5 mm (imaging to 8 mm) |
| Areas | Jawline & chin · mid-face · brow & eye area · neck |
| Unit | 100 shots — plans are built in 100-shot increments |
| Sensation | Heat and a deep prickling; comfort measures confirmed at consultation |
| Results | Build over two to three months as collagen regenerates |
Ultherapy Prime is priced by the shot, not by the session: every shot is one discrete line of focused ultrasound placed at a chosen depth, so a jawline-only map and a full-face-and-neck map are genuinely different amounts of work. How many hundreds your face calls for is decided from the EVE 3D scan and confirmed against the DeepSEE image — commonly several hundred for a full face — and that count is agreed with you before the first line is placed.
One published list that Korean patients and visitors both read. Per-unit prices across lifting technologies are not comparable on their own — 100 shots of imaging-guided ultrasound and one tip of radiofrequency buy different things.
Focused ultrasound carries its own risks, and they belong on this page.
Two of the six references study focused-ultrasound tightening specifically in Asian skin — Suh's histological work and Lu's quantitative face-and-neck analysis. Each describes findings in its own study group, not results at Dear Clinic.
Clinical and histological results of focused-ultrasound tightening in Asian skin.
Review of newer ultrasound techniques for non-invasive skin tightening.
MFU-V evaluated for lifting, tightening and wrinkles of the décolletage.
Quantitative face-and-neck tightening with MFU-V in an Asian group.
Systematic review of micro-focused ultrasound for rejuvenation and tightening.
Prospective study of focused ultrasound for neck and lower-face tightening.
Short videos from the clinic in Cheongdam. Tap a video for sound.
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5th and 7th floors, Namhangang Building, 85-3 Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Apgujeong Rodeo Station (Suin-Bundang Line), Exit 4 · about a 3-minute walk
