Meet the Fat Grafting 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

Fat grafting · body contouring and liposuction · revision of contour irregularity

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.

Dr. Mao assesses a transfer in a fixed order, and the order is the argument. He examines the recipient area first, because scarred, previously operated, irradiated or very thin tissue holds a transfer less predictably and is the finding that most often changes the plan. He examines the donor area second, for how much fat is available and for what its own recovery and scar would mean to the patient. He takes the weight history over the past year rather than the weight on the day, and asks directly what a future change is planned. Where the complaint needs lifting rather than filling, or where the expectation is symmetry or a large change, he says so and declines the transfer, which he describes as a common outcome of an assessment in his practice. Where a transfer goes ahead, he plans it as a range, states the uncertainty as part of the plan rather than as a caveat, and tells patients before the operation that the earliest fair judgement is around the third month.

Clinical focus

• Autologous fat transfer for limited contour differences and hollows
• Recipient-area assessment: scarring, previous surgery and tissue quality
• Harvest planning, including the donor site's own recovery and scar
• Liposuction and body contouring, including correction of a donor-site dent
• Declining a transfer when the complaint needs lifting or a precise change

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

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

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