What this site is for
It exists to answer one question honestly: is this swelling still ordinary, or is something wrong, and when does it need to be seen? That is why the emergency routing sits above every explanation on the home page, and why the timeline for each area is stated as a range with its uncertainty left in rather than as a number to count down.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not name brands of products or devices: technologies are described by class only. It does not quote prices, dosages, wavelengths or energy levels, because a setting is a clinical decision rather than patient information. It does not suggest that compression or drainage resolves swelling, and it does not present an operation as a repair for a result that time would have settled. It publishes no emergency telephone number, room number or opening hours of its own.
The facts kept visible
Three findings are repeated wherever they are relevant, because they are the ones that change what happens next: a single limb that is swollen, warm and tender; breathlessness or chest pain together with swelling in a limb; and swelling of the lips, tongue or throat with difficulty breathing. Alongside them sits a fact patients find harder to accept: an area can look over-corrected while it is swollen, and it is judged later rather than now.
How the content is reviewed and corrected
Tongchun Mao, MD, Deputy Director and Head of Aesthetic Surgery, is the responsible physician. Every guide is reviewed against his clinical judgement before publication and reviewed again on a six-month cycle. If you find something unclear, out of date or wrong, the contact page explains how to tell us, and corrections are made to the page itself.