Shurink Universe: Close-Contact Lifting at a Gangnam Clinic

There are moments when the jawline, blunter than before and dropping downwards, and cheek volume settling around the mouth start to bother you. As ageing progresses, gravity draws the skin downwards, and the overall contour of the face becomes indistinct.

To recover a sharp, taut facial line, people come to consider various lifting treatments. Among them, Shurink Universe, which draws up the deep layers within the skin with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) energy, is an anti-ageing lifting that has been trusted over a long period for both its accessibility and its results. Today we will set out the two modes and the principles of Shurink Universe, available at a dermatology clinic in the Gangnam Station area.

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What is good about ultrasound lifting?

The advantage of Shurink Universe lies in stimulating deep tissue without damaging the skin, firming slackened skin from within. It works by concentrating high-intensity focused ultrasound energy at a particular depth within the skin to form heat.

The key target the ultrasound energy reaches is the SMAS (fascial) layer, located deep within the skin. The SMAS layer is a firm membrane wrapping the muscle, acting as the framework that supports the surface skin and fat layer from below. When this fascial layer loosens with ageing, cheek volume and the jawline drop downwards.

When ultrasound energy is delivered accurately to this SMAS layer, a contraction response occurs and the sagging tissue rises, after which collagen regenerates over the following months and skin firmness improves.

What is different about Shurink at a Gangnam clinic?

Earlier ultrasound lifting devices could only deliver energy in dot form, so gaps where the energy did not reach were inevitable. The upgraded Shurink Universe, by contrast, carries not only Dot mode but also MP mode, which delivers energy continuously in line form, raising the precision of the treatment.

Because MP mode delivers ultrasound energy gently in a dense line, it achieves close, gap-free lifting at the target layer within the skin. It reduces the sharp discomfort that arises when energy concentrates excessively in one place, and helps raise the efficiency of collagen formation.

What effects does Shurink Universe have?

As the face has different curves and slopes in each area, a uniform flat tip alone makes it difficult to keep close contact with narrow, curved areas such as around the eyes, the jawline and the mouth.

Alongside the existing cartridges, Shurink Universe has introduced the circular Ultra Booster handpiece. Thanks to this, energy can be filled in without gaps, in close contact even with areas that were previously hard to reach — around the eyes, beside the nasolabial folds, and the curved jaw line.

How is Shurink lifting carried out?

To obtain a result you can feel, individual differences in skin thickness and fat volume need to be taken into account. Shurink Universe has cartridges at various depths, including 1.5mm, 3.0mm and 4.5mm, which makes lifting tailored to each area of concern possible.

For the dermis close to the epidermis, a tip addressing the superficial layer refines fine lines and texture, while for slackened cheek volume or the jawline, a tip reaching the deeper layers is matched to contract the fascia. Checking the degree of sagging directly and feeling the quality of the tissue by hand while carrying out treatment matched to each area of concern matters.

The most important thing for a satisfying lifting result is close contact that delivers energy without gaps, even to the curved areas of the face. The face is not flat but a three-dimensional structure of eyes, cheekbones, jawline and double chin, so treating the curved areas with precise close contact is what lowers concern about discomfort and side effects while raising lifting efficiency. If a sagging facial line is on your mind, we hope you will have a thorough consultation first.

Healthy, resilient skin is completed not by a treatment on its own, but when accurate information is combined with consistent day-to-day care. NUWA Clinic Gangnam, where facial shape concerns are assessed first, is located directly in front of Exit 7 of Gangnam Station, on floors 3 and 4 at 385 Gangnam-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul.

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Frequently asked questions

Q. What is different about Shurink?

A. Dot mode delivers energy in dot form, while MP mode delivers it continuously in a dense line. MP mode reduces the gaps between dots to achieve close lifting, and helps reduce the sharp discomfort that arises when energy gathers in one place.

Q. How is the Shurink depth decided?

A. Cartridges at different depths such as 1.5mm, 3.0mm and 4.5mm are used according to the area of concern. Fine lines and texture are approached with a superficial-layer tip and slackened cheek volume or the jawline with a deep-layer tip, matched after checking skin thickness and fat volume.

Q. What role does the Shurink handpiece play?

A. The Ultra Booster handpiece is circular, which helps deliver energy without gaps even to narrow, curved areas that a flat tip struggles to reach closely, such as around the eyes, beside the nasolabial folds and the curved jaw line.

Q. When does the effect of Shurink appear?

A. The line can feel tidier from tissue contraction right after treatment, and firmness building can be expected over the months in which new collagen regenerates. The degree and pace of change differ individually, however.

Q. How much discomfort does Shurink involve?

A. Because MP mode delivers energy gently in a dense line, it helps reduce the sharp discomfort that arises when energy gathers in one place. That said, how discomfort is felt differs individually, so we adjust the intensity as we go.