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Meet the Nasal Width Team

This site names the team that writes, reviews and performs. The guides are led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs nasal and profile surgery here; the colleagues below contribute the surgical standards, the skin and dermatology expertise and the tertiary-hospital backstop that an assessment of the nose and its airway sometimes needs, because breathing and skin condition are part of what decides the plan rather than details after it.

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Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

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

Nasal width assessment · rhinoplasty and profile planning · facial aesthetic surgery

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.

He examines the airway before he discusses contour, because every operation that narrows a nose also narrows the passage through it, and a plan that ignores that turns an appearance decision into a functional one. He then separates the two widths with measurements rather than impressions, and he will say which level is the wide one even when it is not the level the patient came in asking about. Where the width is proportion to a broad face, or where the achievable change is a few millimetres traded for a permanent scar, he says so and does not schedule an operation around a request he thinks the face will not carry.

Clinical focus

Measurement of the bony vault and the alar base as separate widths
Rhinoplasty and osteotomy for bone-driven nasal width
Alar base surgery, including its scars and its limits
Nasal airway assessment when width and breathing are both in question
Honest advice where a nose is in proportion to the face and needs nothing

The two widths are not one question

The vault is bone and the base is soft tissue. One is moved, the other is removed, and neither operation reaches the other level. A plan that names a single width without saying which level it belongs to has not said what will be done, and that is the first thing worth pinning down in a consultation.

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

Ke He (何锞)

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

Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan

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 the team, Ke He contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

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

Find out which part of your nose is actually the wide one

Arrange an assessment. We will measure the bony vault and the alar base separately, examine your airway, and tell you plainly whether treatment is worth it, what it would cost you in recovery and risk, and why the answer may be to leave the nose alone.

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