Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Facial surgery · revision planning · honest limits
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 face that may need revision begins with the previous operation rather than with the complaint: what was done, when, through which approach, and in what plane, because the tissue he is looking at has already been moved once and will not move the same way again. He examines function before appearance, testing the forehead, the eyes and the mouth before discussing a hairline or a scar, and he records the position of the ear and the sideburn as a baseline rather than reconstructing it later from memory. He is deliberate about timing, and he will say that a face is not ready to be judged yet even when a patient is ready for an answer. Where a second lift would add risk without changing what the patient is asking about, he says so, and offers the narrower operation or none.
Clinical focus
A second lift has less to work with than the first
Tissue that has been lifted once has already been moved, and it scars. It drapes less freely, holds tension differently, and heals with less margin for error. That does not make revision impossible, and it does mean the honest offer is narrower than the first operation was: specific improvements, planned carefully, rather than a return to how the face looked before.
