Facial rejuvenation,
rebuilt from the deep plane

  • Wang Tanghua Associate Chief Physician · Plastic Surgery
20+
Years in facial rejuvenation
1
Surgeon, assessment to review
3
Planes lifted in one surgery
9
Purpose-built clinical spaces
Wang Tanghua, plastic surgeon

Wang Tanghua

ABOUT THE SURGEON

Associate chief physician of plastic surgery, practising facial rejuvenation in Shanghai for more than twenty years. The assessment, the operation and the follow-up are his — not a team's.

Beauty is never standard-issue. Every plan is built around the face in front of him — technique to hold the detail, judgement to know when to stop.

  • Associate Chief Physician, Plastic Surgery
  • Twenty years of facial rejuvenation
  • Committee member, minimally invasive facial rejuvenation

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Areas of practice

FACIAL REJUVENATION ONLY
  • 01 Full-face deep-plane lift The complete lift: mid face, jawline and neck addressed as one chain.
  • 02 Mid-face and malar restoration Cheek support that softens the nasolabial folds honestly.
  • 03 Jawline and neck Platysma plication with definition along the jawline.
  • 04 Brow and forehead Brow position set at the time of the lift, or treated on its own.
  • 05 Upper and lower eyelids Usually planned alongside the lift, in the same assessment.
  • 06 Revision of a previous lift Prior threads, filler or surgery change the plan, not the principle.

Five stages

HOW IT WORKS
  1. Send photographs

    Front, profile and three-quarter views in daylight, plus any previous operative records. Reviewed before anything is scheduled.

  2. Assessment

    A three-dimensional facial evaluation in person, identifying which layers have actually changed and by how much.

  3. Written plan

    What would be done, what would not, the fee, and the recovery to plan for. Nothing is booked on the day.

  4. Surgery

    Performed by Dr. Wang in a dedicated theatre with an anaesthetist present throughout.

  5. Review

    Wound checks and scheduled follow-up at one, three and twelve months — including remote review for patients who fly home.

The Triple-Plane lift

THE METHOD

One operation, three coordinated steps, named for the planes they work on. Each step exists to answer one question: where the face has descended, where the tension will sit, and where the scar will show.

Deep-plane release

The descended layers are released and repositioned at their own depth, then elevated along vertical vectors. Sagging is addressed at the foundation rather than pulled on from the skin, which is what makes the result look animated and last longer.

Tension-reduction suturing

An internal tension-reduction technique absorbs stress within the deeper layers, so the surface incision carries almost none. That is the reason scars here mature as fine lines rather than widened ones.

Suture-free closure

Nothing is stitched on the surface and no threads need removing afterwards. The recovery is discreet, the scar line refined, and the stay in Shanghai shorter than with a conventional closure.

About the surgeon

Passports from around the world

GLOBAL PATIENTS

Patients fly in from across Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Their passports, photographed at check-in and published with consent.

FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

All questions

Age is a poor guide. What matters is whether the tissue has descended enough to be repositioned, and whether it is still mobile. Most patients are in their forties to sixties, but a face in its late thirties with genuine mid-face descent can be a better candidate than one in its fifties whose main change is volume loss.

If a lift would be invisible to anyone else, it is too early — and doing it then usually costs a second operation later.

Sometimes, but less often than patients expect. The jawline and the mid-face are mechanically linked: lifting the jaw without supporting the cheek above it tends to pull the mouth sideways. A localised approach is offered when the assessment shows the neighbouring areas are genuinely stable.

No, but it changes the plan. Threads can leave scar tissue in the plane that needs to be released, and long-standing filler can distort where the volume actually sits. Bring the dates, products and volumes — this is one of the few areas where an accurate history genuinely changes what is safe to do.

The planes are the same; the hairline, beard pattern and skin thickness are not. Incisions are placed so that sideburns are not displaced and no scar runs through a shaved area. Male skin is thicker and holds a lift differently, which is why the vectors are set slightly differently rather than copied.

General anaesthesia with a dedicated anaesthetist present for the whole procedure, plus local infiltration for bleeding control and post-operative comfort. The anaesthetist reviews you before surgery and remains responsible for monitoring until you are awake and stable.

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CONSULTATION

Front, profile and three-quarter views in daylight. The assessment is free, nothing is booked on the day, and Dr. Wang replies to every request personally within two working days.

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