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Meet the Jaw Surgery and Contouring 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 establishes whether a jaw concern is a bite relationship or a shape question. A comparison of this kind also involves the other three: the surgical view of a jaw that needs an operation, the assessment of muscle, fat and soft tissue, and the dermatological care of a delayed reaction.

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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 · jaw angle and contour · bite 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 questions rather than as two routes to the same result. His part of the decision is to establish which question is being asked: whether the teeth meet correctly, whether the lower jaw sits forward or back, and whether the complaint is really about the width of the jaw angle. Where the bite is the finding he arranges the orthodontic assessment rather than proposing contouring, and where the outline is the finding he says so rather than proposing an operation on the bite. He regards a plan that turns out to be a referral as one that worked.

Clinical focus

Assessment that separates a bite relationship from a jaw outline concern
Contouring of a wide or square jaw angle, planned from the outline
Recognition of a bite problem that requires orthodontic assessment first
Assessment of a jaw that has already been operated on
Recognition when muscle or fat, rather than bone, is producing the width

Two operations, two different questions

One corrects how the jaws meet and the other changes the width and shape of the jaw angle. They are not alternatives for the same person, and the assessment exists to say which question is being asked.

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 jaw that has already been operated on, and for the patient whose real finding is the bite rather than the outline.

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

Non-surgical 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 what the soft tissue contributes: how much of the width of the lower face is muscle or fat rather than bone, and whether the skin over the angle is in a state to be operated on.

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 an operation 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. The bite and the jaw outline are examined separately at it, and we will explain which question each operation answers and what the other one would require.

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