Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Waist and flank assessment · fat, frame and skin told apart · body contouring
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 examination that decides whether the flank is fat at all. He pinches the fat standing rather than lying down, measures the gap between the lower ribs and the pelvis, and tests how the skin recoils, because a waist made mostly of frame or of skin that has lost its elasticity will not change much whatever is done to the fat. He asks for weight to be stable before treating, and where the honest answer is that the shape is skeletal rather than fatty he says so rather than offering a course.
Clinical focus
The frame sets the ceiling
Fat at the waist can be reduced. The distance between the lower ribs and the pelvis cannot, and where that gap is short there is little waist for any treatment to create. It is the single finding that most changes what is reasonable to expect, and it is why the measurement is taken before a plan rather than after a result.
