Ke He (何锞)
Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Reading a device claim against its delivered output · skin assessment before any device is used · managing irritation and pigment after home treatment
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 review her part is the dose question. When a patient asks about a device she asks what output it delivers, over what area, and for how long, and compares that with what the clinic equivalent does at a depth where tightening actually happens. If the answer is that the device warms the surface and nothing more, she says so, including when the device the patient has already bought is harmless and the honest advice is to keep using it with a smaller expectation. Her second question is whether the skin in front of her should be treated at all, because a lesion that is changing is a reason to stop rather than a reason to add sessions, and a person who has been told to wait is often the person most tempted to buy something.
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A lower ceiling is the design
The same decision that keeps a home device from burning an untrained user keeps it from reaching the depth where tightening happens. That is not a flaw waiting for a better version of the product. A device that could reach that depth safely in anybody’s hands would be a clinic device, and it would need an operator, cooling and eye protection to be used at all.
