The Team Behind This Tummy Tuck Guide

Abdominoplasty · repair of the post-pregnancy abdominal wall · 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 physician responsible for this guide. He personally performs more than 700 operations a year, a high-volume practice held to hospital standards of assessment, anesthesia and follow-up.

Within body contouring his published scope includes abdominoplasty and repair of the post-pregnancy abdominal wall, liposuction, and staged contouring after major weight loss. He has written for the hospital on the boundary between contouring and weight loss, stating that liposuction and abdominoplasty change shape rather than weight, and that the distinction decides who is a candidate for which operation.

His stated approach is the one this guide is built on: measure before designing, choose the smallest operation that achieves the stated goal, and sequence operations rather than combining them when combining would lengthen the anesthetic and raise the clot risk. He also states plainly that an honest body-contouring practice turns patients away, and that the operations a surgeon declines are part of the judgement you are choosing.

Clinical focus

• Abdominoplasty and repair of separated abdominal muscles
• Repair of the post-pregnancy abdominal wall
• Liposuction and the skin-versus-fat decision
• Staged body contouring after major weight loss
• Breast and body surgery combined safely, or staged deliberately

Academic roles & achievements

• Deputy Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center, Chongqing West District Hospital
• Head of Aesthetic Surgery
• Publishes patient education on breast and body contouring within the hospital’s AMCA cluster

Center leadership · surgical standards

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Center Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. He leads the four-doctor team in which Dr. Mao practises and carries responsibility for the centre’s standards of surgical planning, safety and follow-up.

For a patient considering a tummy tuck, the director’s role is the guarantee that an individual surgeon’s plan sits inside a departmental system: standardised preoperative assessment, anesthesia delivered by hospital teams, and defined follow-up after the operation. His specialty interest is craniofacial and reconstructive surgery rather than body contouring, and he does not perform the operations described on this site.

Clinical focus

• Departmental standards for surgical planning and safety
• Craniofacial and reconstructive surgery
• Preoperative assessment and follow-up governance

Perioperative care · wound and scar management

Dr. Ke He is a physician in the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and a member of the four-doctor team alongside Dr. Mao. Within the team she supports the perioperative care of surgical patients — the assessment and aftercare that surround an operation and shape how well its result matures.

Her published practice is in skin and laser aesthetics rather than body surgery. On this site her role is the part of recovery that is easiest to underestimate after an abdominoplasty: the care of a long healing wound, the recognition of a wound that is not closing as it should, and the management of a scar through its red and raised phase.

Clinical focus

• Perioperative assessment and aftercare
• Wound care and scar management after body surgery
• Skin and laser aesthetics

Perioperative care · skin in the abdominal fold

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a physician in the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and a member of the four-doctor team alongside Dr. Mao. Within the team he supports the perioperative care of surgical patients.

His published practice is in dermatology, and it matters here for a specific reason: rashes, maceration and irritation in the skin fold beneath an overhanging abdomen are a common consequence of the problem a tummy tuck addresses, and they are a reason patients eventually seek an assessment. Treating the skin and planning the contouring are separate steps, and the first often makes the second safer.

Clinical focus

• Perioperative assessment and aftercare
• Skin disease of the abdominal fold and intertrigo
• Dermatology and skin health