The Team Behind This Breast Reduction Guide

Breast reduction for symptomatic macromastia · breast and 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 breast surgery his published scope includes reduction for symptomatic macromastia, mastopexy, augmentation with implants or the patient’s own fat, and nipple and areola surgery. He has written on the site that reduction is asked for because of symptoms — neck, back and shoulder pain, grooving from bra straps, skin problems in the fold — and that relief of those symptoms is the outcome the operation is planned around.

His stated approach to this operation is the one this guide is built on: measure before designing, plan the smallest removal that achieves the stated goal, and be explicit in advance about the three things that cannot be promised — scars that will not disappear, sensation that may not return, and breastfeeding that may not be possible. He also states plainly that an honest breast practice turns patients away, and that the operations a surgeon declines are part of the judgement you are choosing.

Clinical focus

• Breast reduction for symptomatic macromastia, planned from measurements
• Breast lift (mastopexy) and the lift-versus-reduction decision
• Breast augmentation with implants or autologous fat transfer
• Nipple and areola surgery
• Abdominoplasty and body contouring after major weight loss

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 breast reduction, 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 breast surgery, 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 · 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 breast surgery. On this site her role is the part of recovery that is easy to underestimate: the care of a healing scar, and knowing which skin changes after surgery need to be looked at rather than waited out.

Clinical focus

• Perioperative assessment and aftercare
• Scar assessment and scar management after surgery
• Skin and laser aesthetics

Perioperative care · skin in the breast 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 on this site that is relevant for one specific and common reason: the recurring rash, maceration and irritation in the skin fold beneath a heavy breast is often what finally brings a patient to a consultation. That problem is assessed and treated as skin disease first, and it is also one of the symptoms that reduction most reliably relieves.

Clinical focus

• Perioperative assessment and aftercare
• Skin disease of the breast fold and inframammary rash
• Dermatology and skin health