Thread Liftin Seoul With Absorbable MINT Threads

Threads give mechanical support. The barbs catch the soft tissue under the skin and the thread is anchored higher up, so the effect is a repositioning of tissue that has started to slide, seen along the jawline, the lower cheek and the line from nose to mouth. That suits a face with early to moderate sagging and skin that still has some thickness to hold the threads.

Threads cannot remove excess skin or fat, and they dissolve over time. When the skin hangs in folds, or the neck is heavy, the support a thread can offer is too limited, and surgical lifting is the conversation to have. People who scar easily or have an active skin problem in the area also need a different plan.

Each thread carries small barbs, also called cogs, along its length. A fine needle or blunt cannula carries the thread through the fatty layer under the skin along a planned vector, the barbs open into the tissue, and the tissue is eased upward along that line. Because the entry points are tiny, no incision is made and nothing needs stitching. The thread is absorbable: over the following months it breaks down, and the body forms collagen along its path.

ENTER Plastic Surgery lists MINT threads by area. MINT Easy is used for face lifting, MINT Petit for the nasolabial line and the forehead, and MINT Fine under the chin. Separate volume threads are placed without lifting, to soften a groove under the eye, along the nasolabial line or across the mid-cheek. The clinic holds a MINT Lift certificate of genuine products issued in November 2025.

Planning areas and vectors

The thread count depends on how many vectors the face needs, and both sides are planned together so the pull is even. A jawline plan uses more threads than a single fold, and the forehead is priced as one custom session because the thread pattern is set for each brow and forehead shape.

What the evidence says about threads

The research is on barbed polydioxanone (PDO) threads in general, so it is background for the technique and not evidence about MINT itself. In 38 people treated with PDO cog threads, satisfaction was high, and tying threads from the same entry point together seemed to help stop them moving (Unal, 2019); that study had no control group and short follow-up. For the nasolabial fold, adding botulinum toxin to PDO threads improved fold depth more at three and six months than threads alone (Shinde, 2026).

Four of the five lines on this list are charged per thread, so the total for a face depends on the thread type and how many are placed. The forehead is the exception: it is one custom session at a single price. Combining areas, for example the jawline with the nasolabial line, adds the threads for each area together.

All amounts exclude VAT, and 10% VAT is added at payment. Local anesthesia is part of the treatment, with no sedation fee. Because thread count drives the cost, ask for the count per area to be written into your quote before you book flights.

Threads are minimally invasive, but they are a medical procedure with known complications. A review of 42 studies on non-surgical facial treatments recorded adverse events in about 20% of absorbable thread lifts, with pain and bruising the ones reported most (Cruz, 2025).

• Pain, swelling and bruising along the thread paths.
• Dimpling, puckering or uneven contour, which can persist if the skin does not settle.
• Asymmetry between the two sides.
• A thread end that can be felt, seen or works its way out through the skin.
• Infection at an entry point or along a thread.
• Thread migration, or the lift relaxing earlier than expected.

A meta-analysis found that non-absorbable threads and older age were linked with a higher complication rate, and its authors advise telling patients that the effect may not last long (Niu, 2021).