Meet the Arm Lift Team

Abdominoplasty · breast and gluteal surgery · facial contouring

Dr. Guangzhi Yang is Deputy Director of the Medical Aesthetics Center and Head of Plastic Surgery at Chongqing West District Hospital. He is an associate chief physician in plastic surgery and a licensed aesthetic attending, and a core expert promoting the abdominoplasty techniques of Professor Liu Bin.

He trained at Xinqiao Hospital and Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University, and has worked for nearly thirty years in the burn and plastic surgery department of a public tertiary hospital and in the aesthetic surgery service of a tertiary plastic surgery hospital. His surgical volume includes more than 10,000 operations in total and more than 1,000 abdominoplasties. He has spoken at national academic meetings, published three papers, and taken part in provincial research and continuing-education programmes.

Clinical focus

• Mini, full, extended and 360-degree abdominoplasty
• Breast surgery, gluteal surgery and fat grafting
• Facial rejuvenation and facial contouring, including zygomatic reduction, mandibular angle surgery, genioplasty and PEEK implants
• Eye, nose and lip surgery
• Excision of skin tumours and repair of surface defects

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Abdominal Rejuvenation and Stretch Mark Repair Committee, Aesthetic Medicine Professional Committee, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine
• Member, Aesthetic Medicine Professional Committee, Chinese Research Hospital Association
• Member, Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeons Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association
• Member, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Committee, Chongqing Stomatological Association
• Member, Burn and Wound Branch, Chongqing Medical Association
• Member, Burn Physicians Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association
• Member, Wound Repair Branch, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association

Brachioplasty · body contouring · post-weight-loss surgery

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.

In an arm assessment he works from the skin downwards. The first question is how much of the fullness is skin rather than fat, tested by pinching the tissue and watching how it recoils, and by asking what the arm looked like before and after any weight change. The second is where the incision would fall in the clothes the patient actually wears, because a line that is acceptable in a short sleeve is not acceptable in a sleeveless one, and that judgement belongs to the patient rather than to him. Incision length follows from how much skin has to be taken and where the tension will sit, so a longer line is sometimes the plan that closes without pulling. He advises against an arm lift when the fullness is mostly fat under skin that still has tone, when weight is still moving in either direction, when there is a history of lymphoedema in the arm, and when the patient is clear that they could not live with a visible scar — in which case the honest answer is no operation rather than a smaller one.

Clinical focus

• Skin laxity of the upper arm after weight loss or ageing
• Incision planning judged against the patient's own clothing
• Lymphoedema risk, and when an arm lift should not be offered
• Fluid collections and the compression phase after brachioplasty
• Scar revision, and the limits of what revision can change

Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review

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 the team, Shaoliang Wang contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Device and injectable assessment before any treatment plan

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 the team, Ke He contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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

Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans

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 the team, Yongbo Jia contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

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