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Meet the medical team

This site names the team that writes, reviews and performs. The guides are led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs facial lifting and jawline surgery here; the colleagues below contribute the surgical standards, skin and dermatology expertise that an assessment of a changing lower face often needs.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Facial lifting and jawline surgery · facial aesthetic surgery

Dr. Tongchun Mao is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its aesthetic surgery service at Chongqing West District Hospital, and the lead physician for this site's content on jowls and jawline descent. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, he has rooted his clinical practice for more than 20 years and personally performs over 700 operations a year.

His facial practice covers facelift and lifting procedures, facial bone contouring of the cheekbone, jaw angle and chin, eyelid surgery and periorbital refinement, rhinoplasty and nasal refinement, and facial fat grafting. The jowl decision sits at the meeting point of lifting and volume, which is why the assessment matters more here than the technique. His consistent philosophy is to operate on the anatomy the patient actually has, change only what the analysis justifies, and keep the result natural enough that nobody asks who the surgeon was.

Clinical focus

Assessment of facial descent: what has moved and what is holding it
Facelift, midface lift and facial rejuvenation
Facial bone contouring of the cheekbone, jaw angle and chin
Facial fat grafting and volume restoration
Eyelid surgery and periorbital refinement
Revision assessment and planning after previous facial surgery

Academic roles & achievements

Member, Rhinoplasty and Trunk Tumor Groups, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
Member, Chongqing Medical Aesthetics Quality Control Center; Member, Chongqing Medical Accident / Disability Assessment Expert Pools
Deputy Chair, Chongqing Shapingba District Medical Aesthetics Committee
Published 5 SCI papers, holds 7 national patents, and has participated in 4 research projects
Repeatedly named an Outstanding Young Physician at Xinqiao Hospital since joining in 2005

The smallest operation that answers the question

More than 700 operations a year counts only alongside selection. In a changing lower face the useful question is not which operation is available but whether any is justified — and a practice that never answers no to that question is not selecting.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Center leadership · surgical standards

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Center Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. He leads the team in which Dr. Mao practises, and carries responsibility for the center's standards of surgical planning, safety and follow-up.

For patients, that role is the guarantee that an individual surgeon's plan sits inside a departmental system: standardised preoperative assessment, anaesthesia delivered by hospital teams, and a defined follow-up after every operation. Patients who arrive unhappy with a lifting operation performed elsewhere are usually assessed within this part of the service.

Clinical focus

Repair of unsatisfactory cosmetic operations, including revision and reconstruction
Surgical planning standards and case selection
Departmental follow-up and safety review

Ke He (何锞)

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

Skin and laser aesthetics · perioperative care

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service at Chongqing West District Hospital. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years.

Within this service her role is the skin rather than the position: assessing skin quality and sun damage before any lifting is considered, and treating the surface afterwards so that a well-positioned face does not look like a treated one.

Clinical focus

Skin quality, texture and sun damage of the face and neck
Energy-device and laser treatment, and skin care after surgery

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · skin disease of the face

Dr. Yongbo Jia is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its dermatology service. He graduated from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and trained in dermatology at the Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and at Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Within this service his role is the skin condition rather than the shape: the inflammatory, allergic and pigment problems of the face that change its appearance, that are not surgical, and that need to be identified before a treatment is planned.

Clinical focus

Inflammatory and allergic skin disease of the face
Pigment conditions and skin health around a planned procedure

Ready to find out what has actually changed?

Reach out for a consultation. We will examine what has descended, be honest about whether any treatment is justified, and tell you what happens if you decide against it.

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