The War on Silicone

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 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, […]

The inferior buttlift is a plastic surgery procedure that involves an incision in the gluteal fold (the line underneath the butt) that is used to remove loose skin from the inferior butt and posterior thighs.  This procedure can improve a droopy butt, saggy skin on the back of the thighs, and cellulite in both of […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles plastic surgeon and BBL expert, has performed thousands of BBLs or Brazilian buttlifts and thousands of BBL revisions.  However, butt contour improvement surgery is so much more than BBL.   A Brazilian buttlift or BBL involves transferring liposuctioned fat to the buttocks and hips to improve the buttock projection, roundness, and […]

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 […]