Meet the Team Behind This Evidence Review

Facial assessment · volume loss and laxity · evidence review

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service at Chongqing West District Hospital, and she is the responsible physician for this evidence review. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has spent her career on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics.

Her practice is non-surgical, and that is the point: she assesses the face at rest and in movement, decides which substance class — if any — actually reaches the problem, and stays responsible for the protocol when something does not go as planned. In a face that has changed after weight loss that assessment is unusually important, because volume loss and laxity look similar in a photograph and answer to entirely different treatments.

She does not prescribe or manage GLP-1 receptor agonist medicines, and nothing on this site describes a service of that kind. Her role here is the assessment of facial volume and skin laxity, the honest description of what is established and what is not, and the judgement of when an injectable is the wrong tool.

Clinical focus

• Assessment of facial volume loss and skin laxity as separate findings
• Hyaluronic-acid and non-hyaluronic-acid fillers, placed by zone and by layer
• Recognition of when laxity, rather than volume, is the dominant problem
• Honest reporting of what the evidence supports and where it is thin
• Referral for surgical assessment where an operation is the honest answer

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
• Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

Centre leadership · surgical standards

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Center Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and leads the four-doctor team in which Dr. He practices. His role is the guarantee that an individual practitioner's plan sits inside a departmental system rather than beside it.

For a patient whose face has changed after weight loss, that system is what makes the assessment checkable: standardised preoperative assessment where an operation is considered, hospital anaesthesia and intensive care support in the building, and a review schedule that continues after treatment rather than ending with it.

Clinical focus

• Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review
• Surgical standards where laxity is addressed in theatre
• Hospital-based support when a complication needs urgent care

Aesthetic surgery · facial contouring · fat transfer

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital, where he is Deputy Director and Head of Aesthetic Surgery.

Within this team his role is the surgical assessment of a face that has changed after weight loss: whether laxity is better addressed by an operation than by an injectable, and whether volume is better restored with the patient's own fat than with filler. Those are questions with trade-offs, and the assessment is where they are weighed rather than assumed.

Clinical focus

• Surgical assessment where skin laxity is the dominant finding
• Autologous fat transfer as an alternative to filler for volume restoration
• Honest referral where an operation is, or is not, the right answer

Dermatology · skin quality · laxity

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is the skin itself.

In a face that has changed after weight loss that work is the assessment of skin quality and laxity: how much the skin is likely to retract, what is contributing to the texture and tone, and which skin-directed treatments are appropriate. It is a separate assessment from the volume question, and it is treated separately for that reason.

Clinical focus

• Assessment of skin quality and laxity after weight loss
• Skin-directed treatment for texture, tone and surface change
• Dermatologic assessment where a skin finding is not explained by weight loss