Why Ultrasound Lifting May Not Work: Where the Problem Lies

If ultrasound lifting leaves you feeling nothing afterward, in most cases the problem is not the device but treatment performed without watching the screen image, delivering energy to the wrong layer. Alive Dermatology Clinic, located on Banpo-daero in Seocho-gu, Seoul, has seen many clients who traveled specifically from Hong Kong and Taiwan, all asking the same thing: they had ultrasound lifting elsewhere before, felt nothing, yet spent a considerable amount of money.

Why do some people see no results after ultrasound lifting?

Because the doctor is treating blind. Many people assume ultrasound lifting is just sliding a probe back and forth over the face, but everyone's fascia layer depth is completely different.

• If the doctor does not watch the screen image, there is no way to judge which layer the probe is currently on
• Energy delivered to the wrong layer: too light and there is no effect
• Too heavy may directly cause facial hollowing, making a person look older

What do the probe and screen image tell us?

Every month our clinic empties the discarded probe bin, which holds thousands of used probes. These are not trophies; they are the record of staring at the screen every day until our eyes ache.

In other words, when ultrasound lifting fails, the vast majority of the reason lies not with the device, but with whether the person performing it was truly watching the screen and delivering energy to the layer it needed to reach.