Ke He (何锞)
Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Skin-quality injectables · evidence review and claim grading · delayed reactions to injected materials
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 distinction between what a study measured and what a product page claims. In her own practice she takes the assessment in a fixed order: what the person actually wants to change, whether the cause is skin quality or structure, what has already been injected and when, and whether anything in the history makes an injectable a poor idea. She reads the study behind a claim before she repeats it, tells patients when the published work is small or funded by the seller, and treats the repair language in this product class as a category name rather than a finding. Where the cause is a fat pad, a pigment problem or a volume deficit, she says so and explains why a treatment that changes skin quality will not change it. Where a person has reacted to an injected material before, or wants a result that can be reversed, she recommends against this class rather than around it, and she documents what was used, where and when, because that record is what makes a later problem manageable.
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A name is not a mechanism
This product class is sold on a name that describes its contents and is read as a description of its effect. Keeping those apart is most of the work of reviewing it: a study that measured hydration measured hydration, and the biology in the sentence around it was supplied by the writer rather than by the trial. Where the work is thin, this review says it is thin, because a reader who is told the evidence is small can weigh it and a reader who is told it is settled cannot.
