Breast Implant Surface Work at MIT May Improve Butt Implant Surface as Well

MIT news office recently published the findings of MIT researchers for breast implant surfaces and the immune responses in patients.  Implant surface influences the development of scarring, inflammation, and other complications.  This is something plastic surgeons have known for years. Silicone breast implants have been in use since the 1960s, and the earliest versions had […]

  Dr. Kenneth Hughes’s thinner patients are always concerned that there may not be enough fat or the fat transfer or BBL, Brazilian buttlift procedure.   Dr. Hughes is an expert at thinner patient liposuction and thinner patient Brazilian buttlift.  So this is hardly ever an issue for his patients.  For the patients who are too […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes in Los Angeles is one of the world’s foremost experts for Brazilian buttlift (BBL), butt implants, and butt augmentation in general.  Dr. Hughes is frequently asked to perform what is referred to as a Sculptra buttlift.  The Sculptra buttlift has been popularized by some practitioners as a less invasive method that can […]

With the concern of the higher than realized rate of complications from the Brazilian buttlift procedure, other mechanisms of augmentation should be reexamined as well. Butt augmentation can be achieved with semisolid silicone implants which can be placed within the muscle or below the fascia. The implants cannot be placed under the muscle as this […]

  The number of butt augmentation procedures each year being performed by board-certified plastic surgeons in the US has been steadily increasing over the past decade. The seemingly never ending search for the perfect body, a larger butt, or a more hourglass figure has emerged as a bigger priority than ever before. In the United […]