Meet the Flank Contouring 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

Waist and flank assessment · fat, frame and skin told apart · body 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.

On this site his part is the examination that decides whether the flank is fat at all. He pinches the fat standing rather than lying down, measures the gap between the lower ribs and the pelvis, and tests how the skin recoils, because a waist made mostly of frame or of skin that has lost its elasticity will not change much whatever is done to the fat. He asks for weight to be stable before treating, and where the honest answer is that the shape is skeletal rather than fatty he says so rather than offering a course.

Clinical focus

• Flank assessment: fat thickness, frame and skin elasticity
• Telling contouring apart from weight loss in the plan itself
• Fat removal at the waist, and what it does not tighten
• Skin removal at the flank, alone or within a larger body plan
• Assessment of a result that has changed with weight regain

Center leadership · surgical standards and complex revision

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 standard any operation has to meet and the backstop behind it, including the assessment of a waist that has been operated on before and has not settled as expected.

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

Skin and laser aesthetics · skin quality at the waist

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 this site her part is the layer that sets the ceiling: the quality and elasticity of the skin over the flank, the stretch marks that show where it was stretched, and the honest conversation about what a device can and cannot change.

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

Dermatology · skin conditions in the flank fold

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 condition rather than the contour: rashes, irritation and infections in the fold at the waist, and the dermatologic assessment of a lump or a change in the skin that is not fat.

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