West Virginia’s capital keeps its aesthetic care on MacCorkle Avenue, the road that runs both banks of the Kanawha. In Kanawha City, The Facial Center is at 4307 MacCorkle Avenue SE and Bandak Plastic Surgery a block off it on 50th Street SE; across the river in South Charleston, West Virginia Dermatology & Skin Surgery Center at 4202 MacCorkle Avenue SW holds the largest book in the state we track, 1,244 reviews at 4.9. Thaxton Plastic Surgery is downtown on Capitol Street, Dermatology Associates & Surgical Center on Kenton Drive in the East End, and Living Well on Oakwood Road in South Hills. The two outer listings are Turner Medical and Almost Heaven Spa in Cross Lanes and The Facial Center’s second office in Hurricane, in Teays Valley.
Half of these eight are physician practices, which shapes the menu. Botox, dermal fillers and lip filler are on all eight, Xeomin and Radiesse at Bandak and Turner, Kybella at Dermatology Associates and Living Well, and Dermatology Associates alone lists Sculptra and PDO thread lifts. No tracked menu lists Dysport or Daxxify. The Facial Center’s two offices are the only SkinVive listings.
Devices thin out quickly. Microneedling is on seven menus and microdermabrasion on six, but RF microneedling reaches five, laser hair removal five, Morpheus8 three and laser skin resurfacing only two, at Dermatology Associates and Bandak. Laser tattoo removal is at Living Well and both Facial Center offices, CoolSculpting at Dermatology Associates and Thaxton, Turner is the one Ultherapy listing. The Facial Center carries the wellness shelf, semaglutide programs, hormone replacement therapy and hair restoration at both offices, with Living Well adding hormones and IV therapy and Bandak adding hair restoration.
Charleston is the least expensive injectable market we track in the region. Botox quotes $11 to 13 per unit, a dollar or two under Columbus and Lexington and $3 to 4 under Pittsburgh, filler $600 to 750 per syringe, and a three-session Morpheus8 package $2,200 to 2,800. Prices are flat across the metro; the dermatology groups and the surgeons quote the same band as the spas.
Weekends are closed. None of the eight opens Saturday or Sunday, so the useful edges are West Virginia Dermatology’s 7:30 opening and the 6 pm closes at Living Well and both Facial Center offices. The Facial Center in Hurricane works Monday, Wednesday and Thursday only. Patients drive in from Huntington, Beckley, Parkersburg, Nitro, St. Albans, Dunbar, Ripley and Logan, often an hour or more each way, which is why the physician practices book consultation and treatment on the same visit. Laser series start after the Sternwheel Regatta in July cools into fall and finish before Memorial Day on the river; injectables peak before Mountaineer and Marshall homecomings in October and again in December.
The eight average 4.84 across 2,326 reviews, more than half of them at West Virginia Dermatology. Two plastic surgeons, Thaxton and Bandak, and two dermatology groups sit on this list, so a patient who wants a physician’s hands on a syringe has four choices in a market of eight. Mark two or three clinics below and ClinicCompass delivers your consultation request to each.
