Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Periorbital and eyelid surgery · lid position and muscle function · brow assessment
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 examination that names the cause. He measures where the lid edge sits relative to the pupil, how far the lid travels when the eye looks up, and where the brow sits at rest and in movement, because the four causes of a low lid look alike and are answered by different operations. He treats the possibility that the lid is not the problem at all — a brow that has descended, a hollow above the lid, or a cause that is not surgical — as a finding rather than a disappointment, and where the honest answer is that nothing needs doing he says so. His stated discipline is to change only what the measurements justify.
Clinical focus
The measurement decides the operation
Four different structures produce a lid that looks droopy, and the operations that answer them are not interchangeable. Removing skin from a lid whose lifting muscle is weak does not raise the lid, and it can leave an eye that no longer closes properly. The examination is short because the decision depends on a few measurements rather than on an impression.
