The hospital
This site is published by Chongqing West District Hospital, a tertiary general hospital at 301 Huafu Avenue North Section, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing. Every reference to the hospital on this site means that institution, and the treating team practises within it.
Editorial standards
Content on this site is written for patients, reviewed by a named clinician before publication, and dated. Claims that cannot be supported are removed rather than softened. Where a question has no settled answer, the site says so instead of choosing a side for convenience, and where the market and the examination point in opposite directions, the examination is followed.
Advertising and claims
This site does not present medicines or devices by brand name, does not publish prices or discounts, and does not use countdowns, scarcity or outcome guarantees. It does not describe any treatment to the lips as painless, scarless or risk-free, and it does not present an injectable as a way of shortening the upper lip or changing a bite. It is written so that a reasonable reader can decide against treatment after reading it.
Proportion is read against the reader
This site does not describe a lip as too thin, too full or the wrong shape against a fashion or a celebrity. Proportion is read against the person’s own lower face, and a lip that is fuller than a trend is not a defect. Where a patient has been told by someone selling treatment that a normal lip needs correcting, the site says that the assessment may point the other way, and that dissolving an injectable is a legitimate first step where an injectable is what changed the lip.
Findings routed away from aesthetic care
Where a sore or patch on the lip has not healed, where an injection has produced severe pain, blanching or a change in vision, or where a mouth protrudes because of the teeth or the jaw, the site states that this is a medical or dental matter and names the findings that require urgent or emergency assessment. That routing takes precedence over any cosmetic content on the page it appears on.
Patient privacy and reporting a concern
No patient photographs, identifying details or case histories are published on this site without documented consent. If you believe something published here is inaccurate, misleading or non-compliant, tell the hospital administration line; corrections that are justified are made and the review date is updated.