Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Body contouring and abdominal revision · wound and closure assessment · umbilicus and scar 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 site his part is the judgement that a second tummy tuck is limited by what the first one removed. He examines the closure along its whole length before discussing the scar, checks the belly button for colour and sensation at every visit, and establishes whether returning laxity sits in the skin or in the abdominal wall, because those are different operations. Where the honest answer is that weight has to be stable first, or that there is not enough skin left for the change the patient is asking for, he says so before the plan rather than after it.
Clinical focus
The first operation sets the second one's limits
A second tummy tuck is not the first one repeated. Skin has been removed, the closure has been made once already, and the abdominal wall may have been repaired. The examination therefore starts with what is left rather than with what the patient wants changed, and the most useful thing a patient can bring is a weight that has been stable for months.
