Meet the Injectable Comparison Team

Skin quality and injectable treatment · hydration and surface assessment · facial volume

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.

Both options in this comparison arrive at the same consultation, and Dr. He treats them as answers to different complaints rather than as a smaller and a larger version of one treatment. Her part of the decision is the skin itself: whether a complaint is about hydration and surface quality or about volume, and whether the skin is well enough for either. Where the barrier is damaged, where a skin condition is active, or where skincare and general health are doing most of the work, she will address that first and treat the injectable as a later question, and she regards a plan that begins with skincare rather than with an injection as one that worked.

Clinical focus

• Assessment of skin quality: hydration, elasticity, crepiness and pore size
• Superficial injectable treatment for skin quality, planned as a course
• Deeper injectable treatment for volume loss, contour and folds
• Diagnosis and management of the skin conditions that must be treated first
• Recognition and management of an injectable complication

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

Plastic surgery · complex cases · revision

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.

On this site Dr. Wang is the second opinion for a face whose change is descent rather than volume or skin quality, which neither option here corrects.

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

Aesthetic surgery · facial contour and proportion

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.

His part of the decision is the surgical view of a contour complaint: whether what a patient describes as lost volume is a shape an operation addresses rather than one an injection maintains.

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

Dermatology · skin disease and barrier repair

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.

A patient whose skin is dull because of an untreated condition, a damaged barrier or a general health problem is assessed and treated here first, because an injectable over an untreated skin problem does not resolve it.

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