Meet the medical team

Skin & laser aesthetics · resurfacing candidacy · pigment and scar assessment

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

Her method is assessment before device. What the pigment, the scarring or the texture actually is comes before any decision about how to treat it, because the same brown patch can be several different conditions and the wrong plan makes some of them worse. Treatment is planned in stages rather than all at once, progress is judged against standardised photographs taken in the same light rather than against memory, and the limits of what a device can change are stated before treatment rather than after it. Practising inside a tertiary general hospital means the rare complication that needs more than an outpatient visit can be managed in the same building.

Clinical focus

• Resurfacing candidacy: who should be treated, how deeply, and who should not be treated at all
• Pigment risk assessment and management, including post-inflammatory pigment and laser safety in darker skin
• Scar assessment by type before any device is chosen, including tethered and raised scarring
• Skin preparation before resurfacing and barrier repair afterwards
• Device-class matching across laser, light and energy-based treatment
• Non-surgical facial rejuvenation and its honest limits

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
• Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

Plastic surgery · surgical assessment · hospital-level complication care

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within this team he provides the surgical perspective, which matters most when a patient asking about resurfacing is actually describing a problem that surgery addresses better.

His part of the assessment is straightforward: whether the change that bothers you is in the surface of the skin or in the tissue beneath it. When the answer is beneath it, no amount of resurfacing reaches it, and the honest recommendation is a different plan. He also carries the hospital-level backstop for the rare resurfacing complication that needs theatre-level care rather than an outpatient visit.

Clinical focus

• Surgical assessment where an operation is the honest answer to laxity or scarring
• Multidisciplinary case review within the four-physician team
• Hospital-based support for the rare laser complication needing theatre-level care

Aesthetic surgery · refinement · honest referral

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within this team his role is judgement about the ceiling of non-surgical treatment: knowing when a resurfacing plan will not achieve what a patient is hoping for, and saying so before the treatment is booked.

Some concerns are surface problems and some are structural ones. A team that practises both under one roof has no reason to sell the wrong one, and no reason to keep selling resurfacing sessions for a problem resurfacing cannot reach. Where a patient wants a lifted face, his part of the conversation is the one that names the operation rather than the course.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement
• Honest referral when surgery outperforms a device
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team

Dermatology · pigment diagnosis · skin health before and after treatment

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within this team his role is the skin itself: confirming the diagnosis behind a pigment or texture complaint, assessing skin health before resurfacing is planned, and managing the barrier problems that follow.

Pigment is where this matters most, because a dark patch is not one condition. Melasma-type pigment, post-inflammatory pigment and sun damage look similar and behave differently, and treating the wrong one with the wrong plan can make it worse rather than better. When skin has been irritated by a device, his part of the work is calming it and deciding when, if ever, further treatment is appropriate.

Clinical focus

• Medical skin assessment and diagnosis before resurfacing is planned
• Pigment diagnosis and management, including post-inflammatory pigment
• Dermatologic care of skin that a device has irritated