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Meet the Under-Eye Hollow Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs periorbital and lower eyelid surgery here and who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of this area often needs: the center’s surgical standards and revision experience, the assessment of how much of what a patient sees comes from the skin rather than from the contour beneath it, and the dermatologic diagnosis of the changes that make this a medical rather than a cosmetic question.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Periorbital assessment · hollow told from bag · when repositioning answers better than volume

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 part is the distinction between a hollow and a bag. He examines the under-eye area in overhead light, lifts the cheek while the groove is watched, and records how the lower lid sits before any option is discussed, because a lax lid changes whether filler should be offered at all. He declines to place volume beneath a lid whose fullness is fat that has pushed forward, and where the lid needs repositioning rather than adding to, he says so instead of treating the request he was given. His stated discipline is to change only what the assessment justifies, and to name the troughs that are better left alone.

Clinical focus

Under-eye assessment: hollow, bag, tethering ligament and bone told apart
Lower lid support checked before any filler or operation is considered
Placing deep volume for a true trough in restrained amounts over visits
Declining to fill a lid whose problem is a bulge rather than a hollow
Lower lid surgery with fat repositioning for a bag or a mixed picture

A hollow and a bag are opposites

One is tissue that has gone and the other is tissue that has moved forward. They cast the same shadow in a mirror, and the treatment for each makes the other worse. Which one is present is settled by the examination rather than by the mirror — and where both are present, the order in which they are addressed matters as much as the choice.

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 plan has to meet and the backstop behind it. Patients who arrive with a lower lid that a previous treatment has left uneven, over-filled or lower than it was are usually assessed within his part of the service, and the decision to operate rather than inject is taken with him.

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

Ke He (何锞)

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

Skin and laser aesthetics · skin quality and surface colour

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.

Within this site her part is the surface: how much of what a patient sees is colour in the skin rather than contour beneath it, what skin care, sun protection and light-reflecting camouflage can genuinely change, and the skin preparation and aftercare around anything that is planned.

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

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

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

Dermatology · medical causes of a change in this area

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 change that is not an appearance problem at all: swelling that is new or one-sided, skin that has changed colour, thickened or broken down, allergic and inflammatory disease around the eye, and the medical causes that have to be identified before anything cosmetic is planned.

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

Start with what is actually under the skin

Arrange an assessment. We will examine the area in overhead light, lift the cheek and watch what the shadow does, record how the lower lid sits, and say whether this is a hollow, a bulge, or both. Doing nothing is a legitimate answer and we will say so when it is the right one.

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