Meet the Oily Skin Team

Sebum production and the skin type · seborrhoeic dermatitis and inflammatory causes · hormonal causes of adult-onset oiliness

Dr. Yongbo Jia is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of its dermatology service at Chongqing West District Hospital, and he is the physician responsible for this site. A vice chief physician and licensed aesthetic attending, he graduated from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and trained in dermatology at the Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and at Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

On this site his part is the distinction between a skin type and a condition. He assesses where the oil sits and when it appears, reads the routine for the rebound that over-cleansing produces, looks specifically for the flaking, redness and itching that point to seborrhoeic dermatitis rather than to ordinary sebum, and arranges a hormonal investigation when the history justifies one. He treats the answer — including the answer that a normal skin type should be left alone — and he declines to escalate a routine into prescription treatment before the simple steps have had a fair trial. His stated discipline is to correct the routine before adding anything to it.

Clinical focus

• Sebum production, and telling a skin type apart from a condition
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis and the inflammatory causes of an oily, flaking face
• Hormonal causes of adult-onset oiliness, and when a blood test is justified
• The rebound effect from over-cleansing, and the routine that drives it
• Deciding when prescription treatment is justified and when it is not

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Jiusan Society
• Member, Chongqing Integrative Medicine Skin & Beauty Committee
• Advanced training at the Institute of Dermatology (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences) and Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Center leadership · standards and complex referral

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 the plan has to meet and the route for the rare case where a skin problem turns out to need something other than dermatologic care. Patients whose oiliness is part of a wider condition are assessed with that backstop in place.

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

Aesthetic surgical assessment · honest referral

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

Within this site his part is the boundary. He is the person who says so when a skin concern should be treated medically rather than cosmetically, and who assesses the cases that turn out not to be about sebum at all.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
• Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team

Skin and laser aesthetics · texture, pores and device treatment

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 supporting rung: the assessment before a peel or a device is offered for texture and pore appearance, the preparation of skin that irritates easily, and the honest statement of what those treatments do not change about sebum.

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