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Meet the Nasal Tip Team

This site names the team that writes, reviews and performs. The guides are led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs nasal and profile surgery here; the colleagues below contribute the surgical standards, skin and dermatology expertise that an assessment of the nose often needs, because the skin over a tip and the skin condition of the face are part of what decides the plan rather than a detail after it.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Nasal tip refinement · rhinoplasty and profile planning · facial aesthetic surgery

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.

He assesses the skin over a tip before he discusses the cartilage, because the skin decides how much of any change will be seen and how long the nose will take to settle. Where the envelope is thick he says so early, describes the smaller change that is realistic, and warns about the months of swelling before anything is planned. Where the complaint is really about the bridge or the base, he redirects the plan to the part that is responsible instead of operating on the tip because that is what was asked for.

Clinical focus

Assessment of tip cartilages, skin thickness and the base of the nose
Rhinoplasty and refinement of the nasal tip
Profile planning when the bridge and the tip are both in question
Revision assessment after previous nasal surgery or filler
Honest advice where thick skin limits what any operation can show

The skin decides, not the cartilage

Two noses can have almost identical tip cartilages and look nothing alike, because the envelope over them is different. A plan that describes the cartilage work without describing the skin has not said what the result will be, and that is the conversation worth having first.

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

Ke He (何锞)

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

Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan

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.

Within the team, Ke He contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

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

Find out how much of a change your skin will show

Arrange an assessment. We will feel the tip cartilages, judge the skin over them, look inside the nose, and tell you plainly what a realistic change looks like rather than what is possible in principle.

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