Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Staged planning in the thirties · the decision to start a repeating treatment · when to leave a face alone
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.
His assessment of a patient in their thirties works through the face in layers, skin first and then fat, support and bone, and it begins with old photographs rather than with a request. He separates the lines that are present at rest from the ones that appear only in movement, and he distinguishes hollowing under the eyes from shadow and from pigment before discussing any treatment at all. Where the request is lifting in a face whose support has not changed, or a standing arrangement for a line that has not set, he says so, and explains what the arrangement would commit the patient to over the following years.
Clinical focus
Ask what would make it a poor decision
A patient in their thirties who asks what would make treatment the wrong choice is asking the question this decade deserves. If nothing is visible at rest and nothing is changing, the plan that protects your options is the one that does nothing yet.
