Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Staged aesthetic planning after 60 · surgical assessment when health allows · when the honest answer is no treatment
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 patient over 60 begins with the medicine list and the recent readings, not with the face. Where a blood thinner, an uncontrolled reading, an eye condition or an immune-suppressing medicine changes what is safe, that is discussed before any treatment is proposed, and it is often the whole of the consultation. Where treatment does go ahead he works in small steps at longer intervals, judges the result in standardised photographs over months, and is willing to end an appointment with no plan when nothing on offer is worth the recovery it costs.
Clinical focus
Nothing is a decision, not a default
A patient over 60 who leaves with no treatment has not wasted the appointment. If your health makes a treatment risky, if nothing is bothering you, or if the recovery costs more than the change is worth, then a plan that does nothing is the plan that protects you. It can be revisited whenever you want to revisit it.
