Meet the Volume Comparison Team

Injectable and autologous volume · facial assessment · reversibility and risk

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.

Both options in this comparison arrive at the same consultation, and Dr. He treats them as different answers rather than as stronger and weaker versions of one treatment. Her part of the decision is the assessment of what has actually changed in the face: whether what a patient describes as volume loss is volume, descent, skin laxity or something medical, because only the first of those is treated by either option here. She asks every patient considering fat what they would do if they did not like the result, because there is no injection that undoes it, and she takes a conservative staged plan with an uncertain material as the more honest plan rather than the more cautious one.

Clinical focus

• Facial assessment of volume loss, descent and skin laxity as separate findings
• Autologous fat transfer to the face, including staged and conservative planning
• Injectable volume treatment, including the plan for repeating it
• Recognition and management of an injectable complication, including vascular occlusion
• Dissolving a filler result that a patient does not accept

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 · 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 face that has already had volume placed, and for the patient whose real complaint is descent or excess skin rather than volume.

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

Aesthetic surgery · facial contour and fat harvest

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

His part of the decision is the donor site and the volume available from it, which is one of the findings that limits what fat transfer can achieve for a particular patient.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
• Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team

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 that appears weeks after treatment is assessed dermatologically first at this hospital, because not every late change is a complication of the material.

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