Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Aesthetic surgery · the boundary between non-surgical tightening and a lift · separating skin laxity from descent
Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon at Chongqing West District Hospital, where he is Deputy Director and Head of Aesthetic Surgery in its Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and the responsible physician for this site. He personally performs more than 700 operations a year, within hospital standards of assessment, anaesthesia and follow-up.
On this site his part is the boundary rather than the device. He assesses whether the looseness a patient describes sits in the skin or in the tissue beneath it, because only the first is what an energy-based plan can reach, and he states what the treatment cannot do before a course begins rather than after one has failed to deliver. He treats a plan that continues past its review point without a measurable change as a plan that should be stopped rather than extended. Where the skin hangs, where the midface has descended, or where a hollow is the real complaint, he says so at the assessment, and the operation he performs is offered as the answer rather than as a last resort.
Clinical focus
The ceiling is the whole conversation
Energy placed at a depth can change how lax skin behaves. It cannot remove skin, and it cannot move tissue that has descended. Most of the disappointment that follows this treatment comes from a plan that did not say that at the beginning, and most of the satisfaction comes from one that did.
