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It did seem a little like a hit and run post didn't it?
its hard too say. the OP stated it wasnt what he expected but also hasnt come back to report his progress. i hate when OP's do this -_-. I would quit my job to fly over there too have this done just so i can have normal skin again. being scar free is priceless, only if people with unscarred skin realized how good they have it
So Jace, the OP, did not elaborate more than just saying "not what I expected." ? Did he mean to say the results were not great?
No_hope, are you not getting any further good improvement from the Enerjet?
im undecided. after my second i stopped to persue needling methods such as fractora and intracel. in a couple months if im not satisfied with improvement from intracell i will go for my third enerjet. enerjet so far takes the cake with satisfaction. the only thing i didnt like is the filler made my face more round. if it wasnt for that i would be doing enerjets without hesitation
I think it is odd that any hospital would claim they can cure your scars over email, especially when they've never evaluated your scars in person and scar treatments don't work for everyone. Really strange that there is a tourism group for this too. I may check it out though when I am back in Japan. Flight and hotel to Seoul from Tokyo is pretty inexpensive at less than $300 for a few day package. I have to disagree on South Korea being expensive. I have always thought it was fairly cheap, especially food. Although I haven't visited in 10 years, I can't imagine inflation has jumped that much.
I'm a noob to this site. I'm also on my 3rd treatment on cora therapy. Happy to answer any questions. 
I have a moderate mixture of box and ice pick scars, and a few rolling scars - mainly on cheeks, side of face and temple area. Started the treatment recently at the Gangnam location.
I have followed this thread from the beginning and I think the same now as I did then. A marketing ploy, just does not feel genuine at all.
Finished 3rd treatment recently. Most of my scars have improved between 5% and up to 30% for some scars. Overall, skin is smoother now then before I started. 2 more treatments to go.
Has nothing else about CORA come up ? South Korea is huge on cosmetic surgery, one would think they had a superior method...
Interestingly, it's relatively unknown here in Korea. About 4 years ago, a procedure similar to cora therapy was also launched by one place that called it "trans therapy" (which is essentially the same as cora therapy, which came a few years after).
I am going to Korea in December for 2 weeks to have some plastic surgery and I am thinking of getting cora therapy while I'm there. KRW 50,000 is equivalent to less than $50, which is cheap for an acne scar treatment session.
How many treatments can you get in a 2-week timespan?
$50?!? There may have been some mis-communication. It's more like in the $300-800 range per session (as of summer 2014).
I think the $50 refers to a sample one time session on one spot.
I'm paying in the high $700s per session now.
I'm a noob to this site. I'm also on my 3rd treatment on cora therapy. Happy to answer any questions.
I have a moderate mixture of box and ice pick scars, and a few rolling scars - mainly on cheeks, side of face and temple area. Started the treatment recently at the Gangnam location.
Can you ask them if they are planning to open a satellite office any where else or is there any similar treatment outside of korea
I'm a noob to this site. I'm also on my 3rd treatment on cora therapy. Happy to answer any questions.
I have a moderate mixture of box and ice pick scars, and a few rolling scars - mainly on cheeks, side of face and temple area. Started the treatment recently at the Gangnam location.
Can you ask them if they are planning to open a satellite office any where else or is there any similar treatment outside of korea
Sure, I'll ask the doctor at my next session. I think the lack of expansion may be due to the low supply of doctors with the required skills. It's mainly oriental medical doctors that do it and they need the "needling" skills.
I mentioned previously it's relatively unknown even in Korea (I only know of 3 locations in Korea).
I wonder why they haven't expanded. They would make a tonne of money in places like NYC.
Considering fraxel ranges from 500 to 2500 per treatment, it doesnt seem that high. Also, any sort of facial/cosmetic procedures in Korea are comparably low relative to other countries. *If* cora therapy was offered in the US, prices (my guess) would be 50-100% higher.
Did you really in all honesty expect to pay 50bux to get rid of your scars?? lol
bloodwar44:
no scars on nose, only on mid and upper cheeks and temple area and in between ... somewhat similar to OP in terms of severity
the moderate-to-deep box scars improved about 30% two weeks after 4th treatment, but optimal healing time is more like a few months so it should look better (my 5th treatment was done at the end of 2nd week)
its hard to describe improvement as a percentage bc it varies, but 2 weeks after 4th treatment there was an *average* improvement of 30 to 40%
2-3 months after 5th treatment, i should be seeing an average of 50% improvement (this is a conservative guess based on how i've been healing so far)
i was only aiming for 20% so pretty happy up to this point
it's not really acupuncture, although they do use needles, the needles are used in a completely different way
each treatment takes about 1 to 1.5 hours
so basically looking at 50% improvement for about $3k
talking economics, i think most of the cost is eaten up by time (no machines like in fraxel) as well as skill and knowledge of technique (there are only possibly like 5-10 practices in the world that specialize in using needles for acne scars, all in korea)
If u have a very few deep scars, the cost my guess should be much lower (closer to $300 maybe?) ... but u would need more visits (possibly 6-10 treatments)
If unsure or skeptical, get a native Korean speaker saavy with using naver.com (and call) to research for u
Im a noob to cora therapy as well and can only talk about my experience so far
hmmm , im planning on doing it for the nose where my deepest scars are. They did tell me it would be harder for the nose but not sure how much harder.
Also, for your scars. is the surface of the scar better now? Or do they look like crap scar skin? (not considering the indents jsut the texture of the skin itself)
hmmm , im planning on doing it for the nose where my deepest scars are. They did tell me it would be harder for the nose but not sure how much harder.
Also, for your scars. is the surface of the scar better now? Or do they look like crap scar skin? (not considering the indents jsut the texture of the skin itself)
I'm no dermatoglist but I'm guessing the nose has less collagen development, so I guess it makes sense.
If you want, I can take a few snapshots of their marketing material that explains cora therapy (pm me your email). It's in Korean though but you'll understand more clearly after seeing the diagrams in the book.
The surface is almost untouched. It's the same skin so it should be the same texture. The surface of the scar is "raised" but this occurs from underneath when the pins agitate the dermis (a few layers below the skin, not the outer layer) which promote collagen development.
Probably a terrible analogy but think of a moon crater (scar). Pretend the center of the crater is slowly being pushed upward (like magma pushing upwards as it does for a volcano), so it raises at the center (with each treatment). Sorry, my explanation may be bad ... hehe.
Just wanted to clarify how I use percentages - 30% vs. 50%, which varies for people. For myself, 30% improvement would only be noticeable by yourself and people close to you like family and close friends. 50% improvement should be noticed by people you see occassionally like your boss maybe or neighbor. Point is that there is improvement but will not be 100% perfect and smooth.
I have only 3-4 somewhat moderately deep scars (they are not super deep but deeper than my other scars). 5 treatments should improve these deeper ones ranging from 20-40% The smaller ones I'm seeing definitely over 50% (which there are more of). This is after 5 treatments. For scars on nose, it may require more treatments (this is a guess based on my treatment).
I already indirectly answered your question previously, but my skin texture is the same as before (because it's the same skin).
There is redness after each treatment (on the treated areas) but that dissipates over a period of 1-3 weeks (for me it has taken around 1.5 weeks for redness to reduce down to around 20% ... and probably another 2-3 weeks to be completely gone).
If I wanted to hit 70-90% for the deep scars, I would probably go for 6 - 8 treatments (but this totally depends on the person). Doctor said everyone is different. I also have a feeling that # of treatments could be reduced if the doctor is more aggressive with the cora therapy.
would you say that the pictures on their site are a lie? I'm looking at the nose one , and honestly it seems pretty decent
likely real but obviously they will only be posting their best work (it's advertising)
for extremely deep (and/or difficult) scars, would very likely need much more than 5 treatments
... the issue is healing time. 7-9 treatments with minimal healing time of 2-3 weeks between treatments. looking at 14-27 weeks.
with so many treatments, it starts to get very expensive
