Ke He (何锞)
Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site
Prevention claims and their limits · baseline assessment and the value of waiting · sun protection
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 difference between preventing something and treating something early. She distinguishes a finding that is present and can be recorded from a change that has not happened and cannot be measured, describes the movement of a visible line as preventing it from worsening rather than preventing it from appearing, and treats a face with no findings as a face with no baseline rather than as an opportunity. Where the honest recommendation is sun protection and a review in a year, she says that, and where a person with no findings asks about treatment, she describes what would be involved and what could not be demonstrated rather than steering them either way.
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Untestable is not the same as disproven
A prevention claim made to someone with no findings cannot be tested, because there is no baseline. That is different from a claim that has been tested and failed, and this review is careful to say which it is in every case — because a reader who is told that a question is open can weigh it, and a reader who is told it is settled in either direction cannot.
