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The team behind this resurfacing comparison

The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital is staffed by four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Ke He, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this site, and she is the physician who performs the skin and laser treatment described here. A decision about depth genuinely involves the others: the Center Director's surgical assessment, which is where a scar or a wrinkle that surface treatment cannot reach is judged; the aesthetic surgeon's view of what surgery would do that resurfacing cannot; and the dermatological assessment that decides whether the skin should be treated at all.

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Ke He (何锞)

Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site

Skin & laser aesthetics · resurfacing depth · pigment 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.

Depth is the decision this site exists to explain, and Dr. He's position is that depth is a clinical finding rather than a preference. Her assessment looks at how deep the pigment sits, whether a wrinkle is present at rest, how the skin behaves after injury, and whether the patient carries the cold sore virus, and the plan follows from those answers. Where the problem is shallow she treats it shallowly rather than offering more, and she treats darker skin conservatively on the grounds that the risk of pigment change belongs to the injury itself rather than to the skill with which it was made. She also sets out the maintenance and sun protection that come after treatment, because a result that is not protected is a result that will not hold.

Clinical focus

Assessment of pigment and texture by depth, under good light
Chemical peeling by agent class and the depth each reaches
Resurfacing by device class, and conservative settings in darker skin
Antiviral cover and the management of a cold sore flare
Recognition and management of post-inflammatory pigment change

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

Depth is not a preference

It is tempting to think of a deeper treatment as a better one. It is not: it is a treatment that reaches further and costs more healing and more risk to do so. The right depth is the shallowest one that reaches the problem, and choosing deeper than that buys risk without buying change.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine

Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review

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.

Within the team, Shaoliang Wang contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry

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.

Within the team, Tongchun Mao contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

Deputy Director & Head of Dermatology · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans

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.

Within the team, Yongbo Jia contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

How deep does your problem actually sit?

An assessment begins by establishing depth rather than by choosing a treatment: how far the pigment sits, whether a wrinkle is present at rest, and how your skin has behaved after injury before. We will say plainly what the shallower plan would and would not achieve, what the healing costs, and what we would advise if neither option were right for your skin.

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