What this site is for
This is patient education about how facial proportions and structure are assessed and how a plan is ordered, published by Chongqing West District Hospital, a tertiary general hospital in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing. It is an audience guide rather than a procedure page: it does not introduce operations or devices, and it does not describe how any face ought to look. It answers how a plan is sequenced, what can reasonably wait, what is often the wrong move, and why doing nothing is frequently the correct answer rather than an absence of one. The procedures themselves, and the anatomy they work on, are explained on the facial hub and on Dr. Mao’s own site.
The position this site takes
Skeletal support, skin thickness, pigment response and scar behaviour are measurable differences between people, and they change which options are sensible and where the risks concentrate. That is the whole of the claim. None of them is a defect, none of them is a standard of appearance, and the fact that a proportion is common in a population says nothing about whether the person in front of us should change it. The range within any population is wider than the average difference between populations, so a population label carries almost no information about an individual face, and the goal belongs to the person whose face it is.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not publish a list of procedures to work through, because a list answers a question nobody asked. It does not name products or brands, quote prices or dosages, or promise a result. It does not treat a borrowed reference photograph as a specification, and it does not describe any feature as a flaw, a weakness or something that needs building up. It does not present a cream as a substitute for support that is not there, or a device as a substitute for a change in position. And it does not treat sudden facial weakness, numbness, a new lump, a changing mole, or pain and spreading redness as appearance problems at any point.
The limits of a website
Nothing here can measure your own face or tell you whether the feature you have noticed is the one a plan should address. That requires an examination at rest and in expression, a profile view as well as a frontal one, an assessment of how your skin has behaved after previous injuries or treatments, and a conversation about what you actually want. Use this site to arrive at an assessment with better questions, and treat any answer you receive here as general information rather than as advice about you.