When surgery is genuinely the right answer — and when it is not.
Both surgical and non-surgical anti-aging treatments have legitimate roles — and neither is universally superior. The honest answer depends entirely on the patient's degree of ageing and their goals.
For patients in their 30s–early 50s with early-to-moderate ageing, non-surgical treatments (HIFU, RF, biostimulators, injectables) can produce meaningful, cumulative results with zero recovery. Prevention is genuinely more effective than correction, and starting non-surgical treatment early postpones the point at which surgery becomes relevant.
For patients with significant structural sagging, excess skin, and jowl formation that non-surgical treatments cannot adequately address, surgery offers a degree and durability of correction that devices cannot replicate. Continuing non-surgical treatment at this stage produces diminishing returns and significant expense without achieving the structural change the patient is seeking.
An in-person assessment with Dr. Kim is the only reliable answer. Dr. Kim will give an honest recommendation — including recommending non-surgical options if that is genuinely the most appropriate approach.
SHES specialises in surgical anti-aging. For patients who are good candidates for non-surgical treatment, Dr. Kim will recommend appropriate specialist clinics rather than attempting to serve those needs at a surgical practice.