Meet the Arm Contouring Team

Abdominoplasty · breast and gluteal surgery · facial contouring

Dr. Guangzhi Yang is Deputy Director of the Medical Aesthetics Center and Head of Plastic Surgery at Chongqing West District Hospital. He is an associate chief physician in plastic surgery and a licensed aesthetic attending, and a core expert promoting the abdominoplasty techniques of Professor Liu Bin.

He trained at Xinqiao Hospital and Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University, and has worked for nearly thirty years in the burn and plastic surgery department of a public tertiary hospital and in the aesthetic surgery service of a tertiary plastic surgery hospital. His surgical volume includes more than 10,000 operations in total and more than 1,000 abdominoplasties. He has spoken at national academic meetings, published three papers, and taken part in provincial research and continuing-education programmes.

Clinical focus

• Mini, full, extended and 360-degree abdominoplasty
• Breast surgery, gluteal surgery and fat grafting
• Facial rejuvenation and facial contouring, including zygomatic reduction, mandibular angle surgery, genioplasty and PEEK implants
• Eye, nose and lip surgery
• Excision of skin tumours and repair of surface defects

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Abdominal Rejuvenation and Stretch Mark Repair Committee, Aesthetic Medicine Professional Committee, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine
• Member, Aesthetic Medicine Professional Committee, Chinese Research Hospital Association
• Member, Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeons Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association
• Member, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Committee, Chongqing Stomatological Association
• Member, Burn and Wound Branch, Chongqing Medical Association
• Member, Burn Physicians Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association
• Member, Wound Repair Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association

Body contouring · arms, thighs and trunk · skin redundancy

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.

The arm is the area where Dr. Mao most often advises a patient against the operation she came in asking for, because the finding that decides an arm result is the skin, and the skin is not what the patient is looking at. His assessment runs in a fixed order: what the arm looks like raised as well as lowered, whether the tissue between finger and thumb is fat or a thin cover over a fold, what the weight history has been over the last two years, and what the arm has already been through — lymph node surgery, breast surgery, radiotherapy, or any episode of swelling. If the lymphatic history is not clear, he does not proceed to a plan. If the fullness is skin, he says so and describes the operation that would actually change it, which is not this one. Where the finding is fat in skin with tone, he treats the arm as a small-volume site and plans a modest change deliberately, because taking a little more is the instinct that produces the dents.

Clinical focus

• Assessment of the arm raised and lowered, to separate fat from redundant skin
• Lymphatic history as the first question before any arm plan is drawn
• Small-volume contouring planned for a modest change rather than a slim arm
• Sequencing arms against other areas within a single operation
• Honest referral to a skin-removing operation when the fold is the problem

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 an arm with an existing contour problem, and for the patient whose real question is whether a previous operation can be improved at all.

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

Skin and laser aesthetics · skin quality and non-surgical options

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director and head of skin and laser aesthetics within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team her role is the device and injectable assessment, and the honest referral when a problem needs an operation rather than a needle.

Much of what patients dislike about an upper arm is the quality of the skin rather than the volume under it, and that has a different set of answers. Her part of this site is separating the two before an operation is proposed.

Clinical focus

• Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan
• Staged planning judged against standardised photographs
• Honest referral when a problem needs an operation rather than a needle

Dermatology · healing and skin complications

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.

Skin that heals poorly, or that reacts after a procedure, is assessed dermatologically at this hospital. His part of the decision is whether the skin of the arm can tolerate what is being proposed.

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