Areas of Expertise

Gui Lai, working at Beijing Badachu Plastic Surgery Hospital, has many years of experience and specializes in maxillofacial plastic and aesthetic surgery, as well as the repair and reconstruction of craniomaxillofacial trauma,

Biography

Gui Lai, Doctor of Biology and Medicine from France, graduated from West China University of Medical Sciences in 1983, and in 1985 was sent by the government to study at the Montpellier Faculty of Medicine and the Bordeaux Faculty of Medicine in France. 
In 1995, he returned to China as a key talent introduced by the State Education Commission and the Central Organization Department. After returning, he established the Department of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery at the Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, providing diagnosis and treatment for tens of thousands of aesthetic patients and patients with various complex conditions from all over the country, including charitable surgeries for impoverished families and orphanages in various regions. He participated in the treatment of Liu Hairuo, a host of Hong Kong Phoenix Television, and in the rescue and treatment of the injured in the Wenchuan earthquake. As the chief surgeon, he completed the repair and reconstruction of skull defects for patients including Lai Yuanping, the victim who had been buried for the longest time. He obtained funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Scientific Research Foundation of the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health, and carried out multiple cutting-edge research projects in this field. These involved the repair and reconstruction of craniomaxillofacial trauma, correction of congenital craniomaxillofacial deformities, surgical treatment of craniomaxillofacial bone tumors, and various craniomaxillofacial plastic and aesthetic surgeries, such as orbital hypertelorism, Crouzon syndrome, craniomaxillofacial fibrous dysplasia, hemifacial microsomia, micrognathia, mandibular prognathism, and the repair and reconstruction of various post-traumatic deformities.
In the 1990s, the surgical methods he pioneered, such as “curved mandibular angle ostectomy” and “L-shaped zygomatic osteotomy”, fulfilled the wishes of many individuals seeking attractive facial contours and received full recognition and wide application from plastic surgeons across the country and peers in France, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other countries; they have also become an important part of plastic and craniomaxillofacial surgery in China.
Craniomaxillofacial Surgery is a key clinical discipline of the Ministry of Health and the State Education Commission, and its academic level has been highly recognized by experts and scholars at home and abroad. To date, he has published more than 200 papers in core journals, including 61 in SCI-indexed journals. He has participated in compiling 4 books and has trained dozens of master's and doctoral students. He received the Second Prize of the Army-wide Scientific and Technological Progress Award (as second contributor), the Third Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award (as first contributor), and the First Prize of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (as first contributor). He has been invited multiple times to serve as chairman of national and international academic conferences on plastic and aesthetic surgery and craniomaxillofacial surgery, was selected for the first batch of the national “Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project”, and receives special government allowances from the State Council. He previously served as an executive director of the Standing Committee of the Sixth Council of the Western Returned Scholars Association, vice chairman of the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and group leader of the National Craniomaxillofacial Surgery Group. He has trained more than 60 master's and doctoral students. He currently serves as a reviewer for the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 
Technical Expertise:
1. Maxillofacial plastic and aesthetic surgery: personalized correction of mandibular angle hypertrophy, reduction of prominent zygoma, correction of mandibular prognathism and retrognathia, micrognathia, jaw asymmetry, hemifacial microsomia, and other facial aesthetic surgeries.
2. Repair and reconstruction of craniomaxillofacial trauma; repair of skull defects.
3. Surgical treatment and reconstruction of craniomaxillofacial bone tumors.