Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Breast augmentation and fat transfer · developmental history and timing · frame and soft tissue assessment
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 question that comes before any plan: whether development is complete, and whether there is anything here that needs assessing rather than augmenting. He takes the developmental history before measuring anything, records the chest wall and the soft tissue covering it, and treats a plan made for someone else as a reason to wait rather than a reason to operate. Where the honest answer is that nothing needs doing, or that the timing is wrong, he says so.
Clinical focus
The question that comes first
Whether development has finished is not a formality. Growth can continue into the early twenties, and an operation performed before it has stopped is planned around a shape that has not settled. It is also the point at which a developmental finding is separated from an ordinary variation, because those two lead in completely different directions.
