Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)
Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine · Lead Physician of This Site
Surgical scar assessment · revision and contracture release · hypertrophic scar and keloid management
Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and the physician responsible for this site.
On this site his part is the judgement about whether an operation is the answer at all. He starts from the original operation and the wound record rather than from the scar itself, because where a scar sits, which way it runs and how the wound healed decide more than its colour does. He measures it — width, height above the surrounding skin, firmness, and whether it has crossed the edges of the original wound — and he asks what the patient actually wants changed, because a scar that is flat and pale but wide is a different request from one that is raised and tight. Where waiting is the better treatment he says so, and where a second operation would exchange one scar for another arrangement rather than remove anything, he says that too. Where a scar is tightening across a joint, or pulling an eyelid or a lip out of position, he treats the function first and treats it earlier.
Clinical focus
A second operation is not a reset
Removing a scar creates a new wound, and that wound heals with a new scar. What an operation can change is where that scar sits, which way it runs, how wide it ends up, and whether it tethers or tightens across a joint. A patient who is offered a revision as a way of getting rid of a scar has been told something that cannot be delivered, and it is better to say so before the operation than afterwards.
