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Meet the Stubborn Belly Fat Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who performs body contouring and abdominal wall surgery here and who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of a stubborn abdomen often needs: the center’s surgical standards and its experience of revision, the assessment of the skin envelope and what it will do once fat beneath it is removed, and the dermatologic treatment of a fold that is inflamed or infected before any plan is made.

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

Abdominal assessment · subcutaneous fat, the abdominal wall and the layers between · 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 assessment that decides whether an abdomen is a fat problem at all. He takes the pinch first, measures the waist against height, feels the midline at rest and under load, and asks about weight history and about blood pressure and blood sugar before any plan is drawn, because the fat inside the abdomen is the part that matters to health and no procedure he performs reaches it. Where the honest answer is a physician, a dietitian or a year of waiting, he says so, including to patients who arrived expecting to be booked.

Clinical focus

The pinch test, and telling subcutaneous fat from a deeper cause
Examining the abdominal wall for a gap or a hernia before any plan
Reading a waist measurement against height and against weight history
Removing subcutaneous fat that has not responded to diet and training
Saying no, and naming the step that should come first instead

A smaller waist is not a smaller risk

Removing fat from under the skin changes the layer it removes. It does not change the fat around the organs, and it does not change blood pressure, blood sugar or cholesterol. Patients who understand that before the procedure are the ones who keep doing the things that actually work on the inner fat afterwards.

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 any operation has to meet and the backstop behind it, including the assessment of an abdomen that has been operated on before and has not settled.

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 skin envelope over the abdomen

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 layer that is left behind when fat is removed: how much elasticity the skin over the abdomen still has, what it is likely to do once the volume beneath it is gone, and which of the textural changes that come with weight history are treatable and which are not.

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 · skin in the abdominal fold, and skin signs of a metabolic problem

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 skin condition rather than the shape: the rashes, maceration and infections that are common in an abdominal fold and that need treating in their own right, and the skin changes that sometimes prompt a check on blood sugar before anything else is decided.

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 which kind of fat it is first

Arrange an assessment. We take the pinch, read the waist against height, examine the abdominal wall, and tell you which layer is producing the shape — including when the honest answer is a physician, or a year of waiting.

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