Meet the Radiofrequency Skin Tightening Team

Laxity assessment · skin-type and pigment tolerance · energy-based treatment of the face and neck

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

On this site her part is the assessment that decides whether the treatment is worth doing at all. She establishes what has changed in a face — the skin, the fat beneath it, the position of the tissue, or the bone — and how the skin behaves after heat or injury, before any series is discussed. She treats the ceiling of the treatment as the first thing a patient should hear rather than the last, because the commonest disappointment is not a burn but a completed series in a face the treatment never reached. Her settings are deliberately conservative in skin that tans easily, in thin skin and in anyone whose skin has darkened after a previous injury, and she stops a session rather than finishing a planned pass when the skin says so. Where the honest answer is a lifting operation, or no treatment at all, she says so at the assessment rather than after a series.

Clinical focus

• Establishing whether laxity is the skin or the position of the tissue beneath it
• Skin-type, pigment and sensation assessment before any energy-based treatment
• Setting the endpoint of a session conservatively, and stopping there
• Recognising and managing heat injury, blistering and pigment change
• Advising an operation, or no treatment, where tightening cannot reach the problem

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
• Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

Center leadership · surgical standards and the surgical backstop

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 this site his part is the boundary. Where laxity is beyond what heat reaches, where skin needs to be removed rather than firmed, or where a burn or an infection needs hospital-level care, his service is what the assessment hands over to.

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

Aesthetic surgery · lifting, fat transfer and contour correction

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

Within this site his part is the honest alternative, and the correction of the complication that is hardest to put right. When a face needs repositioning rather than firming, or when fat beneath the skin has been lost after treatment, he is the person who judges what an operation or a fat transfer would change — and whether it would change it better.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
• Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team

Dermatology · pigment, barrier and the skin’s reaction to heat

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 this site his part is the skin itself: the assessment of skin type and pigment tendency before treatment, and the management of the darkening, lightening, blistering and delayed reactions that can follow an energy-based session.

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