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Meet the Nasal Bridge 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, skin and dermatology expertise that an assessment of the nose often needs, because the skin over a bridge and any inflammatory condition of the nose are part of what decides the plan rather than a detail after it.

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

Nasal dorsum and bridge surgery · structural rhinoplasty · 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.

His assessment of a low bridge separates what the bone contributes from what the cartilage contributes, because the two are addressed differently and because a bridge needs support as well as height. Where the finding is proportion rather than structure he says so and discusses the chin or the tip instead of the bridge. Where the bridge does need raising he is explicit about what the chosen material does over the following years, and he is as willing to advise leaving a normal inherited shape alone as he is to plan a change to it.

Clinical focus

Assessment of dorsum height, the root of the bridge and the middle third
Rhinoplasty that raises the bridge and rebuilds support
Structural grafting using the patient's own cartilage
Profile planning across the bridge, the tip and the chin
Honest advice that a low bridge is a variation rather than a defect

Height is not support

A bridge that is low because it lacks support is not the same as one that is simply low, and adding height to the first without building support produces a change that does not hold. The distinction is the whole argument of this site.

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 whether your bridge lacks height, support, or both

Arrange an assessment. We will examine the profile, the tip and the base, say plainly what sets your bridge height, and describe what each option would do and what it would need over the years.

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