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Meet the Puffy Eye Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs periorbital surgery here and who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of this area often needs: the center’s surgical standards and revision experience, the assessment of what non-surgical measures can honestly change around the eye, and the dermatologic diagnosis of allergy, inflammation and the medical causes that can produce swelling.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site

Periorbital assessment · the fluid and fat question · the lower lid and its revision

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 separates fluid from fat and the decision about what, if anything, follows it. He watches the area through the day, presses the skin to see whether it holds an impression, and asks the patient to look up to see whether a fat pad stands forward, because the two mechanisms are managed in directions that do not overlap. He treats a medical cause as something to establish before anything cosmetic is discussed, and he declines the operation he is asked for when the swelling is fluid that drains by mid-morning — the pattern where removing fat leaves a hollowed eye and a complaint that has not gone away. His stated discipline is that the mechanism is named before the rung is chosen.

Clinical focus

Periorbital assessment: fluid and herniated fat told apart
Sleep position, salt and alcohol reviewed before any procedure is offered
Medical causes established before a cosmetic plan is made
The lower lid and the operated look: hollowing, lid position and dry eye
Revision assessment after surgery that left the eye hollow or irritated

The morning tells you more than the mirror does

A fat pad is exactly as prominent at noon as it was at dawn, and fluid is not. That single difference decides whether the answer is a change in what you do at night or an operation on tissue, and the two answers have nothing in common. It costs nothing to watch for a fortnight before deciding which question you are asking.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine

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 the plan has to meet and the backstop behind it. Patients who arrive with a lid that a previous operation has left hollow, retracted or uncomfortable are usually assessed within his part of the service.

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

Ke He (何锞)

Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Skin and laser aesthetics · the surface of the eye area

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 rung between doing nothing and operating: what eye-area skin care, cooling and massage devices can honestly change, how the skin around the eye is prepared before any procedure, and the aftercare that keeps the surface comfortable afterwards.

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

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

Deputy Director & Head of Dermatology · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Dermatology · allergy, inflammation and medical causes

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 swelling that is not an appearance problem at all: allergic eye and nose disease, the rubbing that follows it, inflammatory change in the lid skin, and the general medical causes that have to be identified before anything cosmetic is planned.

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

Find out which of the two you are looking at

Arrange an assessment of the eye area. The examination separates fluid that drains through the day from herniated fat that does not, and it establishes whether a medical cause should be looked at first. You should leave knowing which mechanism is responsible and what each option leaves unchanged.

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