Yes, for the right problem and the right patient: laxity, texture, acne scars or loose body skin, in someone who can give it three sessions and three months. It is not the right plan for heavy, hanging jowls, for volume loss, or as a one-off before an event. The clinician tells you at your free consultation which treatment fits, because we also offer the two it is most often weighed against. From £295 per session at 8 Clinic, 8 Devonshire Place, with the price per area and per course in writing.
What you are buying
Fractional radiofrequency microneedling: gold-coated pins deliver radiofrequency heat below the surface, the tissue contracts and lays down collagen over weeks, and the surface is largely spared. Usually three sessions four to six weeks apart, with numbing cream for 30 to 45 minutes and a session of 30 to 45 minutes for the face. Two to five days of redness, swelling and grid marks on the face each time, a little longer with bruising on the body. The first change from about three weeks, the tightening building from six weeks, the peak three months after the last session, and in our clinic's experience a year or more with an annual maintenance session. Morpheus8 is FDA-cleared in the US. The sessions page sets out the course and the downtime page the recovery.
What the evidence says
No randomised trial names Morpheus8. What has been published:
- 247 patients, lower face and neck, Morpheus8 combined with a radiofrequency device used under the skin (2020): 93% pleased and would repeat. Temporary weakness of the nerve to the lower lip in 1.2%, swelling beyond six weeks in 4.8% and a hardened area beyond twelve weeks in 3.2%, all resolved.
- Over 1,300 treated areas across the forehead, eye area, mouth and jawline (2025, retrospective): no pigment change, scarring or prolonged redness recorded.
- 139 acne-scar patients on three sessions of fractional radiofrequency (2025): acne relapse in 7 of the 29 followed for three years (24%), against 67% after isotretinoin and 75% after laser. The scar improvement itself is not quantified in the abstract.
- A 2026 systematic review of radiofrequency microneedling across devices, 41 studies and 15 randomised trials: acne scar scores reduced, comparable to fractional lasers; wrinkles and skin density improved; stretch-mark results varied.
For cellulite the published record is two patients, and stretch marks rest on the review above rather than a Morpheus8 study; the clinician tells you at the consultation what to expect for your skin.
Worth it compared with what
The honest comparison is with the two treatments we also provide at 8 Devonshire Place. For mild laxity with no time for recovery, EMface, four sessions and no recovery days, or Sofwave, one session and a few hours of redness, may suit you better. Morpheus8 is the one that reaches texture, pores, scars and the body, at the cost of two to five days each time. It is not a surgical facelift and does not pretend to be. The full guide sets the three side by side.
Consultations and follow-ups are free
The money
From £295 per session, set per area and per course, confirmed in writing at a free consultation, with a price match on any comparable written quote and 0% finance over a course; consultations and follow-up reviews are free. A course of three costs less per session than three singles. The cost page has the detail. What makes it worth the money is not the price but the fit: the right skin, the right expectation, and the three months.
The risks you weigh against it
The FDA's communication of on radiofrequency microneedling as a class lists burns, scarring, fat loss, disfigurement and nerve damage among reported complications, with no rate published. Energies above 62 millijoules per pin are cleared only for skin types I to IV. The can it ruin your skin page goes through each risk and who should not have it. At 8 Clinic a trained clinician sets the depth and energy for each zone of your face, on a genuine InMode Morpheus8, in a doctor-led clinic.
Book a free consultation
Call 8 Clinic on 0207 043 8128 or use the form below. The clinician looks at your skin, tells you plainly whether Morpheus8, EMface or Sofwave fits it, and gives you the price in writing. Our patients review the clinic on review.clinic, where it scores 4.9 out of 5 from 66 reviews in November 2026.
