Non-Surgical · RF Handpieces

InMode

FX for the fat, Forma for the skin

Gangnam, Seoul | Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Jonghwan Choi
KHIDI-registered for international patients · Apgujeong Rewind

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Define

InMode

InMode at Rewind: one platform, two handpieces, two jobs

The short answer

InMode is a radiofrequency platform, and at Rewind it is used through two handpieces that do different work. The clinic's own device record describes FX as directed at fat cells beneath the chin and in the cheeks, reducing the fat that sits there, and Forma as directed at the skin, where heat promotes collagen and elastin and the surface firms. Nothing is injected and the skin is never broken: the current travels between electrodes held against the face, an arrangement known as bipolar.

Source: Rewind's Korean device documentation, which records fat reduction and collagen renewal as effects induced together. Anaesthesia, how long an appointment runs and how many sessions make up a course are not published for this treatment, and nothing has been estimated in their place.

Because the two handpieces do different things, Rewind prices them as separate items. FX carries its own rate, Forma carries its own rate, the combined face session is a third line on the sheet, and a body area treated with FX is a fourth.

That structure is the most useful thing to understand before a consultation, because what gets decided there is which handpiece your face actually calls for, and whether it calls for both. A patient who books the pair for a complaint that turns out to be one of the two is paying for work that was never going to change anything.

Treatment floor at Rewind Plastic Surgery, Richro Building, Apgujeong
Fig. 01 — The floor where device sessions are run
Where

Where it is pointed

The areas each InMode handpiece is used on

Rewind's record names two places for the fat handpiece, while the skin handpiece is described by what it does to the dermis. The four entries below follow that record and the way the clinic's own price sheet is laid out.

handpiece 01
Under the chin
The first place the clinic's record names for FX. The pad of fat below the jaw is where patients most often ask about this treatment.
handpiece 02
Cheeks
The second area named for FX, where fullness in the lower cheek is part of what gives the face its outline.
handpiece 03
Skin of the face
Forma's territory. Collagen and elastin production is what the record describes here, and firmer skin is the result it names.
handpiece 04
One body area
Rewind lists a body session on the FX handpiece as its own item, quoted per area and agreed at the consultation.
Depth

Mechanism

How one energy is made to do two different jobs

Fat and dermis sit at different depths and respond to heat at different temperatures. A handpiece built to reach one of them makes a poor instrument for the other, and that is the reason this platform arrives with two of them and a decision to make between them.

01Circuit

Current between two electrodes

In a bipolar arrangement the current travels between two electrodes on the handpiece itself, through the tissue lying directly beneath them. There is no return pad elsewhere on the body, and the depth that ends up heated is bounded by how far apart those electrodes sit.

02FX

Heat aimed at the fat layer

Rewind's record describes FX as breaking down fat cells beneath the chin and in the cheeks so that the volume of fat in those areas falls. Those two places are the only ones it names. Whether the fullness you dislike is fat at all is the first thing the examination has to settle.

03Forma

Heat aimed at the dermis

Forma is described as promoting collagen and elastin, and the firming effect is built on that. Published work on bipolar fractional radiofrequency has reported both new collagen and new elastin forming in treated skin, and the response develops over weeks.

04Pairing

Why the pair is a single line on the sheet

Reducing fat and firming skin answer different halves of one complaint, so the two handpieces are commonly run in the same appointment. Rewind lists that combination as its own item, so a combined session is quoted as one figure agreed in advance.

Dr. Jonghwan Choi at Rewind Plastic Surgery, Apgujeong
Fig. 02 — Which handpiece, and how many areas, is settled at the consultation
Rewind

Why here

Why a plastic surgeon plans a fat-reduction handpiece

A handpiece that treats fat is only as good as the judgement about whether fat is the problem. In a practice that also operates, that judgement carries consequences in both directions, and the examination is where it gets made.

01Diagnosis

Is it fat, or is it skin?

A full-looking jaw line can be surface fat, slackened skin, a heavy muscle band or the shape of the bone underneath. Dr. Choi examines before naming a handpiece, because FX and Forma answer two of those four possibilities and leave the other two untouched.

02Limits

When the answer is no device at all

Where fat sits deep beneath the muscle, or where tissue has descended, heat delivered through the skin will not reach the problem. You are told that, told what a surgical route would involve, and left to decide. Some patients are told that the sensible thing for now is nothing.

03Pricing

Four items, each with a rate of its own

The two handpieces, the combined face session and the body session are listed apart from one another on Rewind's own sheet. You can see what each element costs before agreeing to any of them, and nothing is bundled out of view.

Jaw line assessed at consultation with Dr. Jonghwan Choi, Rewind Plastic Surgery
Fig. 03 — The jaw line is examined before a handpiece is chosen
Session

In the treatment room

What happens in the room on the day

Treatment floor interior at Rewind Plastic Surgery, Apgujeong

Fig. 04 — The treatment floor

Consultation room at Rewind Plastic Surgery, Richro Building

Fig. 05 — The consultation room

The medical director sets the plan, and the appointment runs at the clinic's premises on the fourth and fifth levels of the Richro Building, Apgujeong, Gangnam. Non-surgical treatment runs Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 to 19:00 and on Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00, and nothing is taken without a booking. Makeup and the rest of your evening are possible the same day.

Radiofrequency delivered through handpieces
FX: fat beneath the chin and in the cheeks
Forma: collagen and elastin in the dermis
Face and body sessions listed separately
No injection and no break in the skin
Ordinary activity resumes the same day

Two figures are not published for this treatment and will not be guessed at here: what is used for comfort, and how long to set aside for the appointment. Ask for both when you book, along with how many areas the quoted session covers, and have the answers written into the plan.

Result

Before & After

The InMode case sets have not been released

Rewind photographs its patients itself, under one lighting setup, and publishes the sets treatment by treatment. No set exists yet for this treatment, so the frames stay empty until one does. Manufacturer brochure photographs would tell you about a different clinic's patients and a different camera.

InMode — patient sets not yet released

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When a set is released it will be shown as every set on this site is shown: the clinic's own patients, identical lighting, uncropped frames, and a caption listing every treatment carried out in that case. Individual results may vary. Redness and warmth in the treated area are ordinary in the hours afterwards, and an examination comes first.

Cost

Pricing

InMode cost in Seoul: the handpieces, the pair, and the body list

Four items and four published rates. Which of them lands on your quote depends on what the examination finds, and the figure at the desk is the figure on this list.

InMode FXThe fat handpiece, face session
₩250,000
InMode FormaThe skin handpiece, face session
₩300,000
InMode FX + FormaBoth handpieces inside one face session
₩550,000
Body InMode FXOne body area on the FX handpiece
₩300,000

Listed rates, value-added tax excluded; anaesthetic fees, where anaesthesia is used, already sit inside the listed figure. A course of several appointments is quoted at the consultation, since how many of them you need is a clinical decision taken after the examination. Ask how many areas your quoted session covers before you agree to it.

Fit

Suitability

Who the two InMode handpieces suit

Where FX and Forma are useful

  • A soft pad of fat under the chin on someone whose skin still holds its shape
  • Fullness in the lower cheek that sits near the surface, close enough to be reached through the skin
  • Slackening in the lower face where firming is the whole of the complaint
  • Someone who cannot give up recovery days and wants an appointment they walk straight out of

Discussed before anything is booked

  • Fat lying deep beneath the muscle, which heat delivered at the surface will not reach
  • Tissue that has descended. Firming will not lift it, and the doctor will describe what would
  • A pacemaker or other implanted electronic device, and metal within the area to be treated
  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding, an infection that is still active, or skin inflamed where the handpiece would travel
After

Recovery

After an InMode appointment, and how long it holds

The written aftercare Rewind gives for its device treatments is brief, and nearly all of it applies to the first two days.

On the day
Skip these
Sauna, hard exercise and alcohol are left alone for the rest of the day. Wash with cool or lukewarm water and a mild cleanser.
One to two days
Leave the area alone
The treated skin is not rubbed, scrubbed or pressed. Swelling or bruising may appear, and the clinic's record is that it settles within days.
Daily
Moisturiser and shade
Sun protection and moisturiser are applied carefully while the skin settles. It is the instruction the clinic gives most insistently in its own notes.
Longer term
What holds
The range Rewind records for the effect of its device treatments runs from six months to over a year, and skin condition and plan both push a result around inside it. Weight change afterwards still alters the shape of a face, whatever was treated.

Adverse events described in the radiofrequency literature include burns, blistering, redness that lingers, altered sensation and, uncommonly, unwanted loss of fat below the treated area. A published analysis of injury and legal action in cutaneous energy-device practice is part of why the plan here is written by the doctor who examined you. Declare fillers, threads and earlier energy sessions in the area, and any implanted electronic device, before anything is booked.

Doctor

Professional

At Rewind, one board-certified plastic surgeon carries every case — from the first consultation to the final follow-up. Because a face is a story, and a story deserves a single author.

Dr. Jonghwan Choi, board-certified plastic surgeonRewind,
Dr. Jonghwan Choi, medical director of Rewind Plastic Surgery
Fig. 06 — The medical director, Rewind Plastic Surgery

Rewind's Doctor

Dr. Jonghwan Choi Medical Director

One surgeon, from the first
consultation to the last follow-up.

A board-certified plastic surgeon devoted to anti-aging lifting — with the precision and restraint built through years of craniofacial practice.

Board-certified plastic surgeon (Plastic Surgery)
10 peer-reviewed publications
Medical Director, Rewind Plastic Surgery
Korean Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons
Former chief director, Apgujeong Y&T Plastic Surgery
Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
J Craniofac Surg · JKMS · Arch Craniofac Surg
Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
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Ask

Questions

InMode FX and Forma — what patients ask first

What is the difference between InMode FX and Forma?
They are two handpieces on one platform. Rewind's record describes FX as reducing fat cells beneath the chin and in the cheeks, and Forma as promoting collagen and elastin so the skin firms. Some plans use one of them, some use both inside a single appointment.
Is anything injected?
No. The current is delivered through handpieces held against the skin, and the skin is not broken at any point. That is also the reason ordinary activity, makeup included, is possible on the day of the appointment itself.
How many sessions will I need?
Rewind publishes no session count for this treatment, so no number is offered here. It is decided after the examination, from how much fat is present, how the skin behaves and what you want changed. Ask for the intended number in writing when you book.
Will FX do anything for a double chin?
Under the chin is the first area the clinic's own record names for FX. Whether it suits yours depends on where the fat sits. Fat close to the surface can be reached through the skin; fat lying deep beneath the muscle cannot, and the examination is what separates the two.
Does it hurt?
The sensation is warmth building under a handpiece kept moving over the area, and the level is changed as work proceeds. Rewind has published no comfort protocol here, so ask what will be used and have the answer recorded in your plan before the day.
How soon does anything show?
Firming is gradual, because collagen and elastin are laid down over weeks. Any reduction in fat also reads slowly as the area settles. The follow-up appointment is where the change is assessed, photographed under the same light as the first visit.
Can this take the place of surgery?
Not in every case. Heat delivered through the skin reaches fat lying close to the surface. Where fat sits deeper, or where tissue has dropped, an operation is the route that reaches it. The doctor describes both and leaves the decision with you.
Can I have both handpieces in one visit?
Yes, and Rewind lists that combination as its own item on the price sheet. Running the pair in a single appointment is common where surface fat and slack skin appear together. Whether it suits you is settled at the examination.
Is there a version for the body?
Rewind lists a body session on the FX handpiece as a separate item, quoted by the area. Which area, and whether it is appropriate at all, is settled at the consultation in the same way a face plan is.
What are the side effects?
Swelling or bruising can follow, and the clinic's record is that it settles within days. Published work on radiofrequency reports blistering and burns, redness that persists past the usual day or two, sensation changes in the treated skin and, uncommonly, unwanted thinning of the fat underneath.
Who should raise something before booking?
Anyone with a pacemaker or another implanted electronic device, or metal inside the area to be treated. The same goes for pregnancy and breastfeeding, an active infection, or inflamed skin lying in the path of the handpiece. The doctor makes that call at the examination.
Who plans the treatment and carries it out?
Dr. Jonghwan Choi is Rewind's medical director and a board-certified plastic surgeon; he examines the face himself and writes the plan that follows. Interpreting can be arranged for the consultation, and the clinic is KHIDI-registered for international patients.
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Scientific evidence

What the published work on radiofrequency reports

These papers concern radiofrequency treatment as a class, and the practice of energy-device work generally, in patients treated at other centres with the devices and settings each study used. None is a study of Rewind Plastic Surgery or of the handpieces described on this page, and no individual result follows from any of them.