Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Device selection and what each feature does · surface and labelling questions · surveillance and revision planning
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 review his part is the difference between a design feature and a promise. He describes a surface, a gel, a shape or a fill as the specific change it is and states what it was introduced to address, including the cases where the change introduced a new problem. He works from the labelling rather than from a brochure, tells people that no device choice removes the need for surveillance over time, and treats a question about the newest generation as a question about a service life rather than about an upgrade. Where the honest answer is that the technology makes no difference to what someone would experience, he says that instead of describing a feature that would not change anything for them.
Clinical focus
A design feature is not a promise
A surface, a gel or a shape is an engineering choice with a reason behind it, and a reason is not a result. The label states what the device is and what its risks are; a brochure states what the device might do for you. Where the two differ, the labelling is the one that was authorised.
