Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Sequencing facial planning · skeletal support read before soft tissue · saying when a stage should be declined
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.
On this site his part is the order of work. He records the frame before anything is planned on top of it, separates a surface problem from a support problem, and treats the two on different timescales because they answer on different timescales. He declines a stage when the assessment does not support it, and he says plainly when the honest plan is observation rather than treatment. Where pigment or scar risk is a factor, he plans for it in the sequence rather than treating it as a complication to be dealt with afterwards, and he will stop a plan that is not producing what it was meant to produce.
Clinical focus
Order is the plan
The same set of treatments in two different orders produces two different faces. Support placed before volume behaves differently from volume placed first, and a surface treated before the frame is settled often has to be reconsidered once it is. The sequence is not an administrative detail; it is the part of the plan that decides what the rest of it can achieve.
