Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Body contouring around the trunk · circumferential and staged plans · the weight-stability assessment
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 begins by mapping the skin rather than by naming an operation. He establishes where the excess actually sits, what the buttock is doing, how much of the complaint is skin rather than fat, and where previous scars have left the blood supply to the skin, because those findings decide whether the operation needs to go around the trunk at all. Where the complaint is confined to the front, he says so and offers the smaller operation, which is the answer more often than patients expect. Where it is circumferential, he sets out the choice between one long operation and two shorter ones in terms of anaesthetic time rather than convenience, and he tells every patient what the closures across the back and the buttock will take from them in weeks.
Clinical focus
The reach is the operation, and the price is the time
A body lift is not a more thorough version of an abdominoplasty. It is a different operation for a complaint that extends past the hip, and what it costs is time: time under anaesthesia, a second closure to look after, and a recovery counted in weeks. A patient who wanted the reach and understood the price judges the result fairly. A patient who chose it because it sounded more complete, for a complaint that was confined to the front, has paid in weeks for territory she did not need treated.
