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The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital is led by four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Ke He, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this comparison. A tightening decision genuinely involves the other three — the surgical assessment that answers whether tissue has descended, complex and revision cases, and the dermatological assessment that decides whether an energy treatment can be given at all.

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Who reviews this content

Ke He (何锞)

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

Skin & laser aesthetics · non-surgical tightening

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service at Chongqing West District Hospital, with more than 20 years on the clinical front line.

Most of what people call facial ageing is not one problem. Laxity, volume loss, pigment, texture and dynamic lines each have a different answer, and only one of them is treated by an energy device. Her part of this site is the assessment that separates them, and the boundary that matters most here: neither radiofrequency nor microfocused ultrasound repositions tissue that has descended.

Clinical focus

Assessment of laxity, and what an energy device can and cannot change
Radiofrequency and microfocused ultrasound: selection, limits and aftercare
Skin quality, pigment and texture, and which treatment each one answers
Skin and laser aesthetics inside a tertiary general hospital

Neither device lifts

Radiofrequency and microfocused ultrasound both heat tissue to stimulate collagen, and both produce a modest change in laxity. Neither repositions tissue that has moved downward, neither removes fat and neither changes pigment. A face whose main change is descent needs a different conversation, not a higher setting.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Plastic surgery · complex cases · revision

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital, and previously served as Deputy Chief of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University. His part in this comparison is the patient whose concern turns out not to be a tightening problem at all, and who needs a surgical assessment rather than another course of sessions.

Clinical focus

Revision and reconstruction after failed cosmetic facial surgery
Complex wound repair and tertiary-hospital surgical support
Scar revision and comprehensive scar management

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Aesthetic surgery · facial rejuvenation · the surgical decision

Dr. Tongchun Mao is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its aesthetic surgery service at Chongqing West District Hospital. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, he has rooted his clinical practice for more than 20 years and personally performs over 700 operations a year.

A tightening device and a lifting operation are not stages of one treatment, and that is the boundary Dr. Mao’s part of this site sets out. An energy device changes the quality of tissue that is mildly loose; an operation changes where tissue sits. A patient whose problem is mild laxity may never need a surgical assessment, and a patient whose problem is descent will not be served by any number of device sessions.

Clinical focus

Facial rejuvenation: facelift and lifting procedures, and their honest limits
Nasal surgery: primary rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, and nasal reconstruction
Detailed facial-feature refinement and repair (eyelid, nose, chin, lip)
Facial and body contouring, including fat grafting and hair transplantation

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · assessment and complication management

Dr. Yongbo Jia is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of dermatology at Chongqing West District Hospital, trained at the Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Active skin disease, and skin that is unusually reactive or fragile, change whether an energy treatment can be given at all, and his assessment comes before one is planned rather than after it.

Clinical focus

Dermatological assessment before skin and laser treatment
Management of skin disease that affects healing after energy treatment
Post-treatment skin complications and barrier repair

Not sure whether either tightening treatment fits your face?

An assessment starts with what has actually changed in your face rather than with a device. We will say plainly what each option can and cannot do, and whether an energy treatment is the honest answer at all.

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