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The team behind this injectable comparison

The Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital is staffed by four consultants working inside a tertiary general hospital. Ke He, MD, is responsible for the medical review of this site, and she is the physician who performs the injectable treatment described here. A decision between a collagen stimulator and a filler genuinely involves the others: the Center Director's surgical assessment, which is where descent or skin laxity is recognised and where a face that needs an operation rather than an injectable is identified; the aesthetic surgeon's view of what an operation would change; and the dermatological assessment of skin that is inflamed or reacting.

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Ke He (何锞)

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

Skin, laser and injectable aesthetics · collagen stimulation · injectable safety

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.

The difference between the two materials on this site is what happens when the result is wrong, and Dr. He’s position is that this belongs in the first conversation rather than in the consent form. She separates a problem of overall volume from a problem in one place, because that is what decides between them, and she is explicit that a collagen response is judged at months and cannot be dissolved. Where a stimulator is chosen she plans for the response to be reviewed as it develops rather than only at the end, and she says plainly that an even response cannot be promised. Her assessment also covers what the face needs that neither material provides, which is usually where the most useful part of the appointment is.

Clinical focus

Assessment of volume loss by area, and of the skin over it
Collagen stimulators by class, their placement and their limits
Hyaluronic acid fillers, including dissolving when it is needed
Recognition and management of nodules and of vascular occlusion
Honest limits: what neither material does about descent or skin laxity

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

Irreversibility is a clinical fact, not a warning

A collagen stimulator cannot be dissolved. That is not a reason to avoid it, and it is a reason to be sure before it is placed: which areas, how much, and what the plan is if the response is uneven. A patient who knows that in advance is a patient who can judge the result fairly.

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

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry

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 the team, Tongchun Mao contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

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

Is the loss general, or in one place?

An assessment begins by separating the two: which areas have lost volume, whether the loss is spread across them or concentrated in one, and whether what you are seeing is volume at all. We will say plainly that one of the two materials cannot be dissolved, what each can and cannot change, and what we would advise if neither were right for you.

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