Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Lower-lid assessment · eyelid and periorbital surgery · facial contouring
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.
His approach to the lower lid is to name the finding before naming an operation. That means examining lid tone and position first, asking about dryness, watering, thyroid history and fluid retention, and deciding whether the fullness is a fat pad, a bulging muscle, loose skin or a hollow read as a bag. Where the honest answer is that the complaint is fluid, that it comes from the brow, or that the lid is too weak for the operation the patient came in asking for, that answer is given at the assessment rather than discovered afterwards. Where an operation is right, the plan states what will be left alone as clearly as what will be changed, and the result is judged at six months rather than at six weeks.
Clinical focus
The operation that is declined
A lower-lid practice is defined as much by the operations it does not do as by the ones it does. Where the lid tone is poor, the eye is already dry, or the complaint is not structural, the plan changes or ends. Patients are told that plainly at the assessment, because a lid that has been over-operated is harder to help than one that has not been operated on at all.
