Meet the Waist & Flank Liposuction 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

Body contouring · waist, flank and back · transition planning

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 judgement is the one the guides are written around. Before any volume is discussed he establishes how much of the waist is frame and how much is fat, because the two produce different plans and only one of them is worth operating on for the shape the patient has in mind. His stated position is that a contouring plan is only as good as its edges: the treatment has to run around the torso and be feathered at the rib cage and the hip, and a plan that concentrates on the centre of the waist is the plan that produces a step-off. He is also the person who says plainly that this is a contouring operation rather than a weight-loss treatment.

Clinical focus

• Waist, flank and lower back contouring, including 360-degree plans
• Transition and edge planning, to reduce the risk of a visible step-off
• Large-volume and combined-area sessions, including with an abdominoplasty
• Contour irregularity and asymmetry: prevention, and what can honestly be improved
• Clot prevention and the hospital care that long, large-surface sessions require

Complex and revision body contouring · hospital-level surgical support

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 of the work is the case where the first plan should not proceed: a contour problem that is really a skin problem, irregularity left by a previous session, or a patient whose health makes a long anaesthetic over a large surface a different decision.

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 quality and scar aftercare · body contouring aftercare

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.

Whether the skin will follow a reduced contour is part of what decides the plan, and the treated skin at the waist is firm and numb for weeks afterwards. Her part is the skin assessment before and the aftercare that follows.

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

Dermatological assessment before body contouring

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.

Some conditions that look like a contouring problem are dermatological, and operating through active skin disease in the area is a route to a poor scar. His part is the skin diagnosis that has to be settled first.

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