A written estimate for your own case is the only figure that is authoritative.
Treatment costs at Chongqing West District Hospital are built from identifiable parts: the surgeon's time and judgement, the facility and theatre, anaesthesia, materials, laboratory work and follow-up. This site explains how those parts fit together, what a written estimate should contain, how a cost can change, and how payment, funding and insurance are arranged — so that you can read an estimate properly and ask the right questions before you commit to anything.
We publish no prices, because no two cases are the same and a number quoted without examining you would not be honest. You receive an itemised written estimate for your own case, and nothing on this website replaces it.
- A written estimate for your own case
- Itemised: what is in and what is out
- No decision under time pressure
- Tertiary-hospital safety net
Costs explained before they are incurred
Whatever the treatment turns out to be, the financial conversation in this centre follows the same three steps.
Assess first
Nothing can be costed before it has been examined. The assessment establishes what is actually needed, what is optional, and what should not be done at all — and only then can the components of a cost be identified.
Put it in writing
You receive an itemised written estimate for your own case: surgeon fee, facility and theatre, anaesthesia, materials, laboratory work, garments and follow-up, with the lines that are fixed and the lines that depend on findings at surgery identified separately.
Leave room to decide
An estimate is a prediction, not a guarantee. If the plan changes, the change is explained, priced in writing and consented to separately. No financial decision about elective surgery has to be made on the day.
The clinicians who answer for the plan
The leadership of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center brings together surgical planning, plastic and reconstructive surgery, skin and laser care, and dermatology. Every one of them writes the clinical part of the estimate you receive, and every one of them will tell you when the honest answer is that something should not be done.
Tongchun Mao, MD (毛彤春)
Treatment Cost Review Lead · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of aesthetic surgery, and the clinician who reviews treatment plans and their costs across this centre; detailed facial surgery, facial rejuvenation and surgical contouring, performing several hundred operations a year.
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Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)
Plastic Surgery · Center Director
Center Director and the surgical backstop of the team: revision of failed operations from elsewhere, excision of skin tumours, complex wound repair, and the judgement of when a plan should not proceed. More than two decades of tertiary-hospital surgery.
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Ke He, MD (何锞)
Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of skin and laser aesthetics; she plans courses of non-surgical treatment, explains how a course is staged and quoted, and leads laser-based scar and pigment aftercare. More than twenty years in laser and aesthetic dermatology.
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Yongbo Jia, MD (贾勇波)
Dermatology · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of dermatology; he sets the preoperative skin workup that appears on an estimate, manages the skin that every result depends on, and explains what follow-up care does and does not include. Trained at the Institute of Dermatology, CAMS.
View profile →How treatment costs are built, explained honestly
These guides are the education that sits behind an estimate: what a surgical fee is actually made of, why two quotes for the same operation are rarely comparable, what a written estimate should list, how costs can change and how a change is agreed, and how payment, funding and insurance questions are handled.
Why Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Costs What It Does
The components of a surgical fee, why two surgeons quoting for what sounds like the same operation arrive at different figures, and what to compare instead of a headline number.
Read the guide →What a Surgical Quote Includes, and What It Does Not
A line-by-line guide to a complete surgical estimate: surgeon fee, facility fee, anaesthesia, implants and consumables, histology, garments and follow-up, and the costs a quote rarely carries.
Read the guide →Why the Estimate Can Change, and How Changes Are Agreed
Findings at surgery, additional stages and complications can all move an estimate. How a change should be explained, priced and consented to, and what to agree before you commit.
Read the guide →The Consultation Fee and What It Covers
Why an assessment is charged separately from treatment, what that fee actually pays for, what you should leave with, and how to tell a genuine assessment from a sales appointment.
Read the guide →Implants and Materials: Why the Choice Changes Cost
Why the material chosen for an operation changes what it costs, how the main material families differ, what to ask about any implant, and why cheapest is not a clinical category.
Read the guide →Revision Surgery: Why It Is Charged Differently
Why revision is usually priced differently from a first operation, how revision of your own operation differs from revision of someone else's, and what an estimate for revision should state.
Read the guide →We will not quote you a figure we cannot stand behind
Costs differ by surgeon, facility and complexity, and the cheapest option is not the same as the safest. An estimate is a prediction, not a guarantee: findings at surgery, additional stages and complications can change it. No financial arrangement should ever be made under time pressure, and no patient should be asked to decide on the day. Our job is to put your own case in writing, explain every line of it, and give you the time to read it properly.
Start with an assessment and a written estimate
Reach out to arrange an assessment. We examine what is actually needed, explain how the cost of your treatment would be built, and put it in writing as an itemised estimate for your own case — including what it does not cover. There is no obligation to decide anything on the day.
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