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Meet the Waist & Flank Liposuction Team

The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital brings together four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Tongchun Mao, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this site; the other three are named because waist contouring genuinely involves them — complex and revision cases, the skin the contour depends on, and the dermatological assessment of conditions that have to be treated before anyone operates.

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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

Body contouring · waist, flank and back · transition planning

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 judgement is the one the guides are written around. Before any volume is discussed he establishes how much of the waist is frame and how much is fat, because the two produce different plans and only one of them is worth operating on for the shape the patient has in mind. His stated position is that a contouring plan is only as good as its edges: the treatment has to run around the torso and be feathered at the rib cage and the hip, and a plan that concentrates on the centre of the waist is the plan that produces a step-off. He is also the person who says plainly that this is a contouring operation rather than a weight-loss treatment.

Clinical focus

Waist, flank and lower back contouring, including 360-degree plans
Transition and edge planning, to reduce the risk of a visible step-off
Large-volume and combined-area sessions, including with an abdominoplasty
Contour irregularity and asymmetry: prevention, and what can honestly be improved
Clot prevention and the hospital care that long, large-surface sessions require

The edges are the operation

Patients plan around how much will be removed from the middle. The result is decided at the edges, where the treated area meets the untreated one, and that is the part of the plan worth asking about in detail. A surgeon who can describe where the treatment stops on your body has planned the operation rather than the volume.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Complex and revision body contouring · hospital-level surgical support

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.

Within this site his part of the work is the case where the first plan should not proceed: a contour problem that is really a skin problem, irregularity left by a previous session, or a patient whose health makes a long anaesthetic over a large surface a different decision.

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 quality and scar aftercare · body contouring aftercare

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.

Whether the skin will follow a reduced contour is part of what decides the plan, and the treated skin at the waist is firm and numb for weeks afterwards. Her part is the skin assessment before and the aftercare that follows.

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

Dermatological assessment before body contouring

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.

Some conditions that look like a contouring problem are dermatological, and operating through active skin disease in the area is a route to a poor scar. His part is the skin diagnosis that has to be settled first.

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

How much of your waist is fat, and how much is frame?

An assessment measures the space between your lowest rib and your hip, establishes how much of the shape belongs to the skeleton, and sets out where the treatment would stop so that the transition at the ribs and the hip is planned rather than left to chance.

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