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The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital is led by four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Tongchun Mao, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this site. Choosing between a body lift and a tummy tuck genuinely involves the other three: the revision surgery for a body that has already been operated on, the honest boundary of what a device can do to loose skin on the trunk, and the dermatological care of skin that has to settle before it can be operated through.

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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 · body contouring after weight loss · the extent of an excision

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.

How far the skin has stretched is the whole of this decision, and Dr. Mao's part of it is the examination that measures it. He looks at the abdomen, then follows the laxity round the flanks to the back, the hips and the buttocks, and asks how the skin behaves when it is lifted rather than how it looks lying down. Where the complaint is a firm abdomen that protrudes because of fat behind the muscle, or skin that has stretched while weight is still moving, his answer is that the operation is the wrong one for now — and he says so before any plan is discussed.

Clinical focus

Examination of abdominal and flank laxity, and how far round it extends
Body contouring after weight loss, and what a circumferential closure can reach
Judging when weight stability has to come before any operation
Scar planning for a closure that runs round the body, and how it ages
Abdomens whose real complaint is fat behind the muscle rather than skin

The scar is a decision, not a side effect

A tummy tuck leaves a scar low across the abdomen. A body lift leaves a scar that goes all the way round, because that is where the skin came from. The two are the same operation applied to a different extent, and the extent decides the scar. Nobody should accept a circumferential closure without accepting a belt-line scar, because they are one decision rather than two.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Plastic surgery · complex cases · revision after body contouring

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.

A body that has had contouring and is unhappy with the result is a distinct problem: skin has already been removed from part or all of the circumference, and the laxity that remains, or the scar that widened, is now the complaint. Dr. Wang's part of this site is the assessment of those bodies, the correction where one is possible, and the hospital-level care for the rare complication that belongs in a tertiary general hospital rather than an outpatient room.

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 boundary of what a device can do

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 — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

Loose skin on the abdomen and flanks is frequently presented for a course of tightening on the assumption that it will substitute for removing skin. Dr. He's part of this site is the honest statement of that boundary. A device that heats skin can change its quality; it removes no skin, so it cannot close a fold or shorten skin that has stretched. Where a patient's real question is what a non-surgical option would do, she answers it against what the operation would achieve rather than instead of it.

Clinical focus

Assessment of trunk skin before any non-surgical tightening is offered
What energy-based tightening can and cannot change over the abdomen
Skin quality and scar management along a long closure

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · skin conditions that delay body surgery

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.

Skin that is inflamed, infected or affected by a long-term condition is not skin to operate through, and a closure that runs round the waist and into the fold under the abdomen passes through places where those conditions concentrate. Dr. Jia's part of this decision is the dermatological one: treating the skin first, judging when it has settled, and managing the wound or the scar if healing does not go as expected.

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

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