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Meet the Pore Assessment Team

This site is led and medically reviewed by Tongchun Mao, MD, who is responsible for the medical content and for the assessment that decides whether a visible opening is wide, filled or actually a scar. The other three contribute what that assessment often needs: the surface and laser perspective with an honest account of pigment risk, the dermatologic diagnosis of an oil or inflammatory condition, and the surgical view of a face whose real complaint is pitted scarring or lost firmness.

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

Aesthetic surgery · skin surface and texture · what a device can and cannot 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 separates a genuinely wide opening from an opening that is filled, and from texture that is really pitted scarring. Those three look similar in a mirror and are not answered by the same thing, and a plan aimed at the wrong one is the commonest reason a patient concludes that pore treatment does not work. He is direct that nothing shrinks a pore permanently, and that where the real complaint is lost firmness rather than pore contents, a surface treatment will not answer it.

Clinical focus

Assessment of whether a visible opening is wide, filled, or actually a scar
Telling pitted acne scarring apart from genuinely large pores
When lost support rather than pore contents is the dominant contributor
The honest limits of peels, light-based sessions and energy-based devices
Recognising the findings that belong with a physician rather than a skincare routine

The gland decides the baseline

A pore is the opening of a follicle, and the size of that opening is largely set by the oil gland sitting beneath it. No treatment on the ladder changes the gland, which is why the size a pore returns to is the size it started at. Anything that looks like a lasting change is a change in what is in the opening or in how tight the surface around it sits.

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 assessment

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 case that is not a pore problem at all: a face whose visible texture comes from pitted scarring, from lost firmness or from a lesion, and that needs a surgical assessment rather than another surface treatment.

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 · surface treatments 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 what an in-clinic session can realistically change and how much pigment risk a given skin tone carries. She is the person who says when the daily rungs are the whole answer and a course of sessions would be wasted.

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 · oil, acne and inflammatory disease

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 face whose oiliness is driven by acne, by rosacea or by a hormonal change rather than by the pore itself — the cases where treating the surface would miss a condition that needs a diagnosis and prescription management.

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 an assessment, not a package

Arrange a consultation. We will establish which contributor is behind the visible pores, explain what treatment can and cannot change for your skin, and set out the options including doing nothing.

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