Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)
Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Virtual planning and its limits · guide and implant transfer · when a plan changes the operation
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 review his part is the distinction between a plan that fixes a bone position and a picture that illustrates a conversation. He works from the clearance of the device and the outcome the study actually measured, treats the reproducibility of a bone position as the real finding it is, and treats a rendered image as a drawing rather than a forecast. Where a plan would not change the approach, he says so rather than adding a layer that buys confidence without buying information. Where planning is done, he starts from the examination and the scan together, because a boundary traced wrongly on a poor scan propagates through everything computed afterwards, and he shows the plan to the person it belongs to before the day rather than after.
Clinical focus
A plan is not a prediction
A plan describes where a structure should be. A prediction describes how someone will look. Only the first is something the evidence can establish, and a detailed image does not close the gap — because a detailed image is a picture of a plan, not a picture of a person.
