Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Staged aesthetic planning in midlife · skin quality as the limiting factor · when to do nothing
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 fifties begins with the skin and the health history rather than with the request. He asks how the skin has behaved after any previous treatment, what medication is being taken, and where blood pressure sits, because those answers decide which options are reasonable rather than merely available. Where the request is volume for a jawline that has dropped, or filling under skin too thin to carry it, he explains what the result would and would not do before the question of whether to proceed arises at all. He is equally willing to end an assessment with no treatment, and to say that a plan which is already escalating should be made smaller rather than larger.
Clinical focus
Fewer things, in the right order
A patient in their fifties who leaves with one step to consider rather than a full schedule has not been under-served. At this stage the plan is decided by what the skin will tolerate and what the health picture allows, and a shorter plan that can be reviewed honestly is worth more than a longer one that cannot.
