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The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital is staffed by four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Tongchun Mao, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this site, and he is the surgeon who performs the facial surgery described here. A decision between a non-surgical course and an operation genuinely involves the others: the Center Director's complex-case and revision work, where a face that has already been operated on is judged; the skin and laser assessment that decides whether a course is the honest plan and what its limits are; and the dermatological assessment that decides whether the skin should be treated at all.

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Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site

Aesthetic surgery · facial ageing · the surgical decision

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

The question this site exists to answer is one of order, and Dr. Mao’s position is that order is decided by the examination rather than by a preference for starting gently. Where the change is in the skin — its tone, its surface, an early looseness with no descent — a course of non-surgical treatment is a reasonable plan and not a delay. Where the tissue has descended, no amount of surface treatment repositions it, and saying so early is more useful than allowing a year of sessions to say it instead. He states the cost of the other route just as plainly: scars, anaesthesia, weeks of visible healing, and a second operation if the result does not settle.

Clinical focus

Assessment of facial ageing by layer: skin, fat, muscle and ligament
Facelift, including the extent of dissection and the scar pattern it requires
Judging whether a non-surgical course is a plan or a delay
Revision surgery on a face that has already been operated on
Honest limits: what an operation will not restore

Order is a clinical decision

Starting with the non-surgical option is neither cautious nor wasteful in itself; it depends entirely on what has changed. If the problem is skin, it is a plan. If the problem is descent, it is a year spent on something that cannot move tissue, and the examination is what tells the two apart.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine

Plastic surgery · complex cases · revision

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team he provides the surgical perspective and the tertiary-hospital backstop — the assessment when an operation is the honest answer, and the hospital-level care for the rare complication that needs it.

On this site his part is the face that has already been operated on, and the patient whose health makes a long anaesthetic or a healing problem the deciding factor. Whether a further operation should proceed at all, and what the tissue will tolerate, is the judgement he is asked for.

Clinical focus

Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review
Surgical assessment when an operation is the honest answer to descent or excess skin
Hospital-based care for the rare complication that needs theatre-level management

Ke He (何锞)

Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Skin & laser aesthetics · the non-surgical route

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service. Within this comparison her role is the non-surgical route: she is the physician who assesses the skin itself, and who says when a course of energy treatment is the honest plan for a given face.

Her part of the decision is the part no operation answers: the quality of the skin, how it behaves after injury, recent sun exposure, an active skin condition, and a tendency to pigment change. Where those answers are unhelpful she says so rather than treat, and where a course is chosen she sets out what it will not move as clearly as what it will improve.

Clinical focus

Skin assessment before non-surgical facial treatment
Energy-based tightening by class, and the course it requires
Pigment risk in darker skin tones and conservative planning
Skin quality before and after facial surgery
The interval between a course of treatment and any later operation

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

Deputy Director & Head of Dermatology · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Dermatology · assessment and complication management

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is medical skin assessment — diagnosing and managing pigment and barrier conditions, and treating skin that a device or an injection has irritated.

His part in this decision is the dermatological assessment that happens before either option is planned, and the management of a face that changes in a way neither treatment explains — a rash, a pigment shift, or inflammation that needs a diagnosis in its own right rather than another session.

Clinical focus

Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans
Diagnosis and management of pigment and barrier conditions
Dermatologic care of skin after irritation or a delayed reaction

Is your problem in the skin, or in the position of the tissue?

An assessment begins by separating the two: how much is laxity, how much is descent, and what each option would therefore change in your face. We will say plainly what an operation would leave exactly as it is, what a course of treatment cannot move, and what we would advise if neither were the right answer for you.

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