PDO Max

PDO Max is a brand of polydioxanone (PDO) threads made by PDO Max, Inc., a company based in Liverpool, New York, with its threads manufactured in South Korea. Polydioxanone is a synthetic material long used to make absorbable surgical sutures; for a thread lift, thin PDO threads are inserted under the skin with a fine needle or cannula to mechanically reposition and support sagging tissue, and the material is then slowly absorbed by the body over a period of months while also prompting the skin to form some new collagen around it. PDO Max holds an FDA 510(k) clearance (K190245), with a decision date of June 4, 2019, filed under the FDA's classification for absorbable polydioxanone surgical sutures. That clearance covers the thread material itself as a suture device; it is not a separate, FDA-recognized clearance specifically for a cosmetic 'thread lift' or facial-repositioning use, which reflects standard industry practice across PDO thread brands generally rather than something unique to this one. PDO Max's own materials describe the threads as cleared for soft-tissue approximation where an absorbable suture is appropriate.