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Meet the Lip Aesthetics Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Ke He, MD, head of skin and laser aesthetics in the Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital, who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of the lips often needs: the center’s surgical standards and its experience of revision, the operations that remove or reposition tissue when an injectable has reached its limit, and the dermatologic care of the skin above the border and of any reaction to an injectable.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Ke He (何锞)

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

Lip assessment · tissue, border and position as separate findings · reversible injectable plans and honest referral

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

On this site her part is the assessment that decides which of the four findings is producing the complaint. She measures the lip at rest and while it is moving rather than looking at it in a still photograph, reads the muscle pattern before discussing volume, and measures the space between the base of the nose and the border, because that measurement decides whether a reversible injectable can reach the problem at all. Where the finding is tissue or border she will say that an injectable is the honest route and that it can be dissolved; where the finding is a measurement only an operation changes, she will say so, including to patients who arrived expecting an injection rather than a referral.

Clinical focus

Measuring vermilion height and border definition at rest and on smiling
Separating a tissue shortfall from a position or muscle finding
Measuring the philtrum before any plan for a long upper lip is discussed
Reversible injectable plans with a stated ceiling and a reversal plan
Referral for surgery where only an operation changes the measurement

Academic roles & achievements

Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

Reversible first, and clear about the ceiling

Most patients arrive asking which product is best. The assessment is not about the product. It establishes whether the complaint is about tissue, about the border, about the length of the skin above the lip, or about muscle, because that decides whether a reversible injectable is the honest route or a delay. Where an injectable reaches the finding it is a reasonable first step and it can be undone. Where the finding is a measurement that only an operation changes, saying so early is the more useful answer.

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 any operation on the lip has to meet and the backstop behind it, including the assessment of a lip that has been operated on before and has not settled as expected.

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

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Aesthetic surgery · operations that remove or reposition lip tissue

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

Within this site his part is the surgery: the planning of a lip lift, the judgement of how much skin the upper lip can give up, the placement of a graft when an injectable has reached its limit, and the assessment of a lip that is too full for the face rather than too thin.

Clinical focus

Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
Shared case planning within the four-physician team

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · the skin above the border and reactions to injectables

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 skin rather than the shape: the lines and surface changes above the border, the medical assessment of a sore or patch on the lip that has not healed, and the dermatologic care of a lip that has reacted to an injectable, including a lump or a delayed reaction.

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

Establish which part of the lip is the question

Arrange an assessment. The lip is measured at rest and while it moves, and you will be told which finding is responsible, what each route would change, and what it would leave exactly as it is.

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