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Meet the Crow's Feet Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs surgery on the upper face here and who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of this area often needs: the center’s surgical standards and revision experience, the assessment and surface treatment of thin sun-damaged skin at the eye corner, and the dermatologic diagnosis of allergy, eye rubbing and the lesions that should not be treated as lines.

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

Periorbital and upper-facial assessment · the orbicularis oculi and the eye corner · injectable and surgical planning for the upper face

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 separates a line the muscle makes from a line the skin keeps, because the two look identical in a mirror and the rungs that answer them do not overlap. He watches the eye corner at rest and then in movement, examines the thickness and the sun history of the skin around it, and checks the position of the lid edge and the brow before anything is considered, because those two findings decide what can safely be done at all. He treats the answer — including the answer that the lines are ordinary and better left alone, or that the static component is the larger part and no muscle treatment reaches it — as a finding rather than a disappointment, and states the ceiling before the plan rather than after it.

Clinical focus

Periorbital assessment: the dynamic crease told apart from the static skin change
The orbicularis oculi, and what reducing its pull does to the lines and to the lid
Eye-corner skin quality, sun history and what a topical can and cannot change
Declining volume treatment where the line is a fold rather than a hollow
Revision assessment after treatment that has flattened the corner or lowered the brow

The line is the muscle working, not a flaw

A crow's foot is what a face does when it smiles. The muscle that makes it also closes the lid and moves the tear film, so the aim is to reduce its pull rather than remove its function, and the effect is measured in months because the movement continues. A plan that does not say this before it starts is a plan that has not described what it can deliver.

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine

Center leadership · surgical standards and complex revision

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 this site his part is the standard the plan has to meet and the backstop behind it. Where the upper face needs an operation rather than a needle or a device, and where a previous treatment has left the eye corner uneven or the brow heavy, the assessment sits within his part of the service.

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

Skin and laser aesthetics · the surface of eye-corner skin

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 this site her part is the skin component: judging how much of what a patient sees is texture and photoaging rather than muscle, which of the surface categories suits thin skin near the lid, and how the skin is prepared and looked after around any of them.

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

Dermatology · allergy, eye rubbing and the skin around the eye

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 this site his part is the daily load that survives treatment: allergic eye and nose disease, dry eye and the rubbing that follows them, inflammatory and barrier problems in thin periorbital skin, and the findings at the eye corner that should be diagnosed rather than treated as lines.

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

Know which line you have before deciding about it

An assessment of the eye corner takes a few minutes and answers the question everything else depends on: how much of the line is the orbicularis oculi folding the skin, and how much is the skin itself. You should leave knowing what each option changes, what it does not, and whether doing nothing is the reasonable answer for you.

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