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Meet the Stretch Marks Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who assesses dermal scarring and performs skin and body surgery here, and who is responsible for the medical content. The other three physicians contribute what an assessment of stretch marks often needs: the center’s surgical standards and its experience of revision, the device assessment of colour and texture along with the pigment risk your own skin carries, and the dermatologic view of marks that point at a cause rather than at the skin.

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

Assessment of dermal scarring · mark age, colour and texture · skin surgery after pregnancy and weight change

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 a mark is at a stage where anything can be offered at all. He records how old each mark is, whether it is still red or has gone pale, how wide and how deep it is, and how the skin around it behaves, because those findings and not the number of marks decide what is worth doing. Where the marks are new and still fading he says so and suggests waiting, and where a mark has already reached its final appearance he explains that a course of treatment would change very little, including to patients who arrived expecting to book one.

Clinical focus

Stage of a mark: whether it is still forming or has settled
Colour, width, depth and distribution recorded before any plan
Telling marks that need investigating from marks that do not
Skin surgery where marks sit on skin that has lost its elasticity
Judging change against standardised photographs rather than memory

The stage of a mark decides more than the treatment does

A red mark and a white mark of exactly the same size are not the same problem and do not answer to the same options. Most disappointment in this area comes from treating a settled mark with something aimed at colour, or from treating a mark that was still fading on its own. Knowing which one you have is most of the decision.

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 procedure has to meet and the backstop behind it, including the assessment when marks sit on skin 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 · colour, texture and pigment risk

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 device assessment: whether a mark is still at a stage where light or microneedling can change it, what the sessions involve, and how much pigment risk your own skin carries if it darkens readily after injury.

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 · marks that point at a cause

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 marks that are not simply a consequence of stretch: those appearing during steroid treatment or with other body changes, and the skin conditions that can look like striae and need treating in their own right.

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

Start with the stage of the mark, not with a treatment

Arrange an assessment. We record how old your marks are, whether they are still red or have gone pale, and how deep they sit, then say which of them anything can be offered for and how much it would realistically change.

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