Harvard-Educated, Harvard-Trained Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
TOP PLASTIC SURGEON
IN LOS ANGELES AND BEVERLY HILLS
Los Angeles, CA | (310) 275-4170
Facelift / Rhytidectomy Kenneth Hughes, MD Other Facial Aging Procedures brow lift upper and lower eyelid procedures facial fat grafting chin liposuction 1)What are the factors that result in the aging face? Referred to as elastosis, this process results in loss of...
Silicone Implants and Implant Controversies All silicone gel implants are cross-linked to maintain a gel consistency. As the cross-linking is increased, the consistency or firmness increases. These implants are designed in various anatomic dimensions in addition to...
Subgroups of Tummy Tuck Patients Patients anatomically can be grouped into types I, II, III, IV. A type I patient has good skin elasticity, good muscle tone, no diastasis, and isolated lipodystrophy. A type II patient has mild lower abdominal laxity, diastasis...
Risks Particularly Associated with Tummy Tuck seroma (fluid collection, which typically must be drained with a needle and syringe) dehiscence (breakdown of the incision of the tummy tuck) skin necrosis (death of part of the skin) umbilical loss (death of the belly...
The Effect of Radiation on Complication, Reoperation, and Capsular Contracture Rates in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction with the Introduction of Skin-Sparing Mastectomy (SSM) Techniques Introduction Skin-sparing mastectomy with expander/implant reconstruction has...
Photography in Aesthetic Head and Neck Surgery Kenneth Hughes, MD Introduction Photography is essential to documenting results in all forms of facial plastic surgery: brow lift, upper and lower eyelid surgery, face and neck lift, facial fat grafting and stem cell...
The Evolution of Saline and Textured Implants The inflatable saline-filled implant was first reported by Arion in France in 1965. The saline implant allowed for smaller incisions due to the fact that the implant could be placed and then filled once the pocket had been...
Physical Exam in the Tummy Tuck Patient If there is skin laxity, the lower abdominal skin should be pinched to determine the amount that can safely be excised. If the umbilicus is neither mobile nor ptotic and is not distorted by pinching the redundant infraumbilical...
The Vascular Territories of the Tummy Tuck The abdomen is divided into three vascular zones. The midabdomen is supplied by the deep epigastric arcade (zone I). The lower abdomen is supplied by the external iliac artery (zone II). The lateral abdomen is supplied by the...
Telemedicine: Risks, Benefits, and Pitfalls in the Postoperative Care of Plastic Surgery Patients and Review of the Literature Background As a practice grows in volume and reputation, a plastic surgeon may be asked to perform surgical procedures on patients from...
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