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Dr. Kenneth Hughes, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, wants to help delineate the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and a plastic surgeon. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons published a recent article on the how cosmetic surgeons are performing procedures beyond their scope of training. Doctors who advertise themselves as certified by the […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-educated, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, has performed many, many silicone removal surgeries from patients around the world. For this patient, Kenneth Hughes MD removes several pounds of injected material and scar tissue. This video shows the pounds of injected material and scar tissue on the back table in the […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes has performed thousands of Brazilian buttlifts, and patients always want to know how the butt will look.  They ask how big the butt will be?  How much more projection?  Another common question is how many ml or cc can be injected into the butt or the hips? These are all great questions […]

The Google bug as it has been called on August 10th affected many plastic surgery sites and had many plastic surgeons worried.  Google claims to have the bug fixed.  Sadly this is not the case.  Dr. Kenneth Hughes keeps real-time copies of search results to monitor google index volatility over time.  Though much of the […]

What is the ideal butt aesthetic?  The answer, of course, to that question is whatever the patient thinks is the ideal.  Some patients think that Dr. Kenneth Hughes has a preference or a type of buttock or shape that he produces or prefers.  However, Dr. Hughes has no preferred aesthetic and tries to get the […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes in Los Angeles sees a great variety of post-traumatic deformities for which he creates a reconstructive surgery plan.  No one strategy or approach is effective for every individual or every deformity.  Many of these deformities are the result of fat necrosis, which is a technical term applied to fat tissue that dies […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, Board-Certified Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon, sees a large number of patients have loose skin at the bottom of the butt or the back of the thighs. Some of these patients also have a butt that is too long.  Patients have have a butt that is not smooth, patients may be concerned […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes performs as much butt surgery for reconstruction as he does for purely cosmetic reasons.  With the advent of the numerous problems following silicone and biopolymer injections to the buttock including death, Dr. Kenneth Hughes is frequently battling these foreign substances to prevent long term problems with skin death, tissue death, fat death, […]

Statistics show that the Brazilian buttlift (BBL) causes one death for every 3,000 operations.  The procedure involves liposuction of fat from the abdomen, sides, back, arms, thighs or other fatty areas and injecting the harvested fat to the butt and hips to improve the shape, projection, roundness, and volume.  English surgeons were advised not to […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon, sees many patients who want more than just a larger butt or a more shapely butt with more projection.  In addition, patients may have dents from previous trauma or from some congenital event or previous surgery.  Revision surgery from previous fat transfer attempts by other surgeons make up […]