Ke He (何锞)
Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Assessment of volume against support in the midface · plane and depth of injectable treatment · skin quality and texture on the cheek
Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.
On this site her part is the examination that decides whether a cheek has lost volume or lost support, because those two answers run in opposite directions and the treatments have nothing in common. She assesses the cheekbone by eye and by hand, watches the soft tissue at rest and while smiling, and separates the surface of the skin from the shape beneath it, since a plan that ignores scarring or pigment on the cheek disappoints whatever it does about contour. Where the complaint is descent, she says that volume makes it heavier rather than better, including to patients who arrived expecting filler; where the complaint is hollowing in a face that has not descended, she says that an operation is not the answer.
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The direction, not the product
Almost everyone arrives with a product or an operation in mind. The assessment is not a negotiation about it. It establishes whether the complaint is a shortage of tissue, a loss of support or a bone shape, and then names the option that addresses that. A cheek that is heavy is not improved by adding to it, however well the addition is done, and that is worth establishing before anything is injected rather than afterwards.
