Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Nasal surgery · facial proportion · revision and reconstruction
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.
Dr. Mao begins a nasal assessment with the covering rather than the frame, because the thickness and quality of the soft tissue decides how much of any change will read on the surface. His assessment looks at the nose from below, from the side and from behind as well as from the front, feels the envelope, and examines the profile around the nose — the midface, the upper jaw and the chin — before discussing the nose itself. Where the target a patient describes exceeds what her covering will show, he says so at that point rather than after the operation, and he describes what the same operation would look like on her rather than on the example she has brought. If a donor site is part of the plan he explains what that site will cost her in the first week, because that is the part patients are least prepared for. He plans the first operation conservatively on principle, so that the tissue retains what a later operation would need.
Clinical focus
The covering decides what you see
Two noses given the same operation do not show the same result. Where the soft-tissue envelope is thicker, edges are softer, detail is less defined and swelling takes far longer to resolve. This is the single fact that decides how the outcome should be judged, and it belongs in the first conversation rather than in the second year.
