Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Forehead and brow surgery · the forehead plane, the brow position and the hairline as three separate targets · incision planning where the hairline is high
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.
His assessment starts by asking which of the three targets the patient is actually looking at, because the answer decides the plan rather than the other way round. He examines how the brow sits on the bone, whether the upper lid is hooded, and how much hair-bearing scalp there is to hide an incision in. Where the brow is already high, he says that a plan built only to lift will make the appearance worse and offers the alternative. Where the hairline is receding, he says plainly that the options for hiding the scar have narrowed and that treating the creases alone may be the better decision. Where the complaint is hollowness or bony proportion, he says the operation does not reach it.
Clinical focus
Three targets, and the plan can only aim at one
A forehead lift is described as though it were a single change. It is three, and they pull against each other. Smoothing the forehead plane and raising the brow usually push the hairline backwards. Holding the hairline forward limits how much the brow can be raised. A patient who can say which of the three they care about most gets a plan that suits them; a patient who asks for all three gets a compromise nobody explained.
