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 · acne and scarring in younger patients · 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 in a patient in their twenties begins with what is not there yet. He asks what is actually changing — oil, acne, marks left behind, sun exposure — and if the answer is that the skin is calm under ordinary light, he says so and ends the appointment there. Where acne is still active he will not plan scar treatment, and where the request is volume or lifting in a face that has lost neither, he explains what the result would and would not do before discussing whether to proceed at all.
Clinical focus
Nothing is often the plan
A patient in their twenties who leaves with no treatment is not an unsuccessful consultation. If nothing is changing and nothing is bothering you in ordinary light, the plan that protects your options is the one that does nothing yet.
