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Meet the Genioplasty and Chin Implant Team

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 assesses whether a chin concern is a deficiency at the bone. A comparison of this kind also involves the other three: the surgical view of a jaw that needs an operation, the assessment of the soft tissue that has to cover the change, and the dermatological care of a delayed reaction or a lump.

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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

Facial bone surgery · chin and jaw contour · revision assessment

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.

Both operations in this comparison arrive at the same consultation, and Dr. Mao treats them as answers to different findings rather than as a larger and a smaller version of one treatment. His part of the decision is the bone: whether the chin is genuinely set back at the jaw, how far it has to come forward for the profile to balance, and whether the soft tissue over it will cover the change. Where the finding is a mild deficiency on a stable bite he says so rather than proposing bone work, and where the bite or the airway is the real problem he refers rather than operating. He regards a plan that ends in a referral as one that worked.

Clinical focus

Assessment of chin projection against the whole profile rather than in isolation
Bone repositioning where the deficiency is skeletal, planned before the operation
Device placement where the deficiency is mild and the bite is stable
Recognition of a bite or airway problem that belongs to another specialty
Assessment of a chin that has already been operated on

Two operations, two different findings

One moves your own bone and the other adds a device in front of it. Neither is the stronger version of the other, and the finding that separates them is whether the deficiency is in the bone and how far the chin has to move.

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 Dr. Wang is the second opinion for a chin that has already been operated on, and for the patient whose real finding is the jaw rather than the chin.

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

Device and injectable assessment · skin and soft tissue

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director and head of skin and laser aesthetics within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team her role is the device and injectable assessment, and the honest referral when a problem needs an operation rather than a needle.

Her part of the decision is whether the soft tissue will cover the change without the edges of a device becoming visible, and whether the skin is in a state to be operated on at all.

Clinical focus

Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan
Staged planning judged against standardised photographs
Honest referral when a problem needs an operation rather than a needle

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · skin disease and delayed reactions

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.

A lump, a change in skin colour or a reaction appearing weeks after placement is assessed dermatologically first at this hospital, because not every late change is caused by the operation.

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

Start with an assessment, not a decision

Arrange an assessment. Both operations are examined at it, and we will explain which finding each one addresses, what the recovery asks of you, and where the honest answer is neither.

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