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Meet the Nasal Team

This site names the team that writes, reviews and performs. The guides are led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs nasal and septal surgery here; the colleagues below contribute the surgical standards, skin and dermatology expertise that an assessment of the nose often needs, because allergy, dryness and the condition of the lining are part of what causes obstruction and are treated before any operation is planned.

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

Nasal deviation and septal surgery · rhinoplasty and profile planning · facial aesthetic surgery

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 assessment of a crooked nose begins inside the nose rather than at the mirror, because a blockage that is caused by allergy or by the overuse of decongestant sprays is treated differently from one caused by a bent septum. Where the airway is the only problem he says so and plans a functional operation, not a cosmetic one. Where both are involved he plans them together, and he is explicit beforehand that a straighter nose is achievable while a nose that looks straight from every angle is not.

Clinical focus

Assessment of the airway, the septum and the bony vault
Septal surgery for obstruction, planned around breathing
Rhinoplasty that straightens the bridge and the septum together
Revision assessment where a previous straightening did not hold
Honest advice where the airway is clear and the deviation is stable

Breathing first, then the mirror

The question that decides the plan is whether the nose blocks. A deviation that breathes well and a deviation that does not are two different problems, and a practice that offers the same operation for both has not examined the airway.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review

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 the team, Shaoliang Wang contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan

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 the team, Ke He contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans

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 the team, Yongbo Jia contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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 what is deviated, and whether it blocks

Arrange an assessment. We will examine the airway and the inside of the nose before the shape, say plainly whether the problem is functional, cosmetic or both, and describe what an operation could and could not achieve.

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