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Rate of Blood Clot and Morbidity after Covid Infection in Northern California
, plastic surgeon, has been able to avoid any COVID instances in his plastic surgery center since the onset of the pandemic last year. Blood clot is...
Three Women and Plastic Surgery with Same Surgeon on Same Day in Tijuana
in performs many revision surgeries for a wide range of procedures like liposuction, tummy tuck, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty and many others. Some of these patients elected to have...
Black and Hispanic Make Up More Than 50% of Coronavirus Morbidity
, plastic surgeon, reviewed findings from a recent research study about disparity among different ethnic groups secondary to coronavirus. A recent study showed that black and Hispanic...
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: Safety for the Office Staff with Dr. Kenneth Hughes
When was a clinical instructor and fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess at Harvard University, he gave frequent presentations about all aspects of plastic surgery including safety for the office staff. [video width="1440"...
Complications of Medical Tourism
Medical tourism occurs for the most part due to economic considerations. Patients are not seeking out the best care but rather the cheapest option. Some of the patients travel to recover in island paradises or the promise of that. The Dominican Republic has taken a...
Coronavirus Aftermath Claims More than 500,000 in the US
has been monitoring the patient outcomes from coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. The buzz around the virus has reduced markedly, yet the total number claimed by COVID moves to more than a half a million. The...
Silicone and Biopolymer Injection Responsible for Untold Deaths
, board-certified, Harvard-trained plastic surgeon in , has received hundreds of inquiries from patients all over the US and throughout the world in regard to silicone and biopolymer...
Evaluating Plastic Surgery Patients for Risk of Blood Clot or DVT
, Harvard-trained board certified plastic surgeon in , has performed thousands of elective cosmetic surgery procedures. The patient base is generally healthy as this is elective surgery....
The Removal of Fat Necrosis or Dead Fat with Fat Necrosis Expert Dr. Kenneth Hughes
, plastic surgeon, is an expert at fat necrosis removal in its various presentations. Fat necrosis is the death of fat that occurs usually secondary to the lack of blood supply. Without...
Smoking’s Effect on Plastic Surgery Complications Including Flap Death, Fat Necrosis, and Poor Wound Healing
, plastic surgeon, understands the negative consequences of smoking on plastic surgery including flap death, fat death, and wound healing issues. [acf field="doctor_name"...
When You’re Not Satisfied with Your Breast Augmentation, Come In for a Breast Revision
Breast augmentation, also known as augmentation mammoplasty, is a procedure in plastic surgery that increases the size of the breasts and gives them a fuller appearance. It may be done from one or more reasons, including making naturally small breasts bigger, bringing...
Liposuction Contours Away Excess Fat to Give You a Slimmer Figure
Do you have fat that refuses to go away? You may be the ideal candidate for liposuction with in . This is a cosmetic surgery designed to remove fat that hasn’t responded well to exercise...
Customize Your Breast Augmentation
There are a great deal of women who are unhappy with the shape and size of their breasts. Many of them opt for breast augmentation so that they can feel better about themselves. Breast augmentation is a cosmetic surgery designed to increase the size of the breasts. ...
An Embarrassing Nose Stands Out
Your nose is a prominent facial feature that determines the overall look of your face. It can make or break the first impression you make when you meet a new person. If the size and shape of your nose is unaligned with the rest of your features, it can give you a...
Fill Your Facial Wrinkles With The Help Of Juvederm
Developing the early signs of aging such as wrinkles and fines lines are a natural part of growing older. Though we may age at varying rates, all of us fall victim to these changes at some point in our lives. However, aging doesn’t have to be immediate. We may not...
Lacking in Rear-End Volume? Consider Butt Implants
Who doesn’t want a well-round and firm buttocks that looks good in all their jeans? For a lot of women, having a rounded and full buttocks can help improve their self-image and boost their confidence. However, as women get older, the buttocks will start to develop a...
Review Validity
Is There Any Validity to Online Reviews of Plastic Surgeons? The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal published research from Northwestern University which examined more than 1,000 patient reviews of plastic surgeons on Yelp and similar. One of the researchers...
Lacking in Rear-End Volume? Consider Buttocks Implants
Who doesn’t want a well-round and firm butt that looks good in jeans? For a lot of women, having a rounded and full butt can help improve their self-image and boost their confidence. However, as women get older, the butt will start to develop a saggy and unappealing...
With Restylane, You Can Fight The Early Signs of Aging
Most people have a deep desire to look young forever and never take that step into old age. Even though It's a part of life, our skin changes as we age. It becomes thinner, loses fat, and no longer looks as vibrant and smooth as it used to. Given the kind of stress...
Do you Want Large Perky Breasts?
Do you find yourself looking in the mirror, wishing that you had larger and perkier breasts? This is something a great deal of women desires. has performed hundreds of breast augmentations through every incision available...
What Should You Expect From A Mini Abdominoplasty or Mini Tummy Tuck?
What Is a Mini Abdominoplasty or Mini Tummy Tuck? , plastic surgeon, performs all variants of the tummy tuck or abdominoplasty frequently as part of a mommy makeover procedure. An...
Belotero Reduces Wrinkles and Fills In Lines
The aging process is something that none of us can avoid, and this process comes with wrinkles, fine lines, and other bodily changes that can make you look older. Thanks to innovations made in the realm of cosmetic surgery, however, there is an abundance of...
Unhappy with Your Breast Size? Breast Augmentation May Be Right for You
The size of a woman’s breasts can be affected by hereditary factors, extreme weight loss, the aging process, and pregnancy. Fortunately, if you are unhappy with the size of your breasts, there are many different surgical options available for improving them. One such...
Coming Back From a Near Death Experience with Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
Unfortunately, I, , have endured the near death experience in my own life and my perspective is obviously different than many of my plastic surgery colleagues. The patient role is something I learned before I became a doctor...
Calling Out to All of My Supporters
Anyone who has or owns a business likely puts a lot of effort and dedication into making it as good and efficient as possible. You want those who come for services to be happy and to spread the word to others. Many of 's...
Doctors Are People Too – Doctor Suicide Attempts on the Rise
encounters people almost every day who are rude, unreasonable, or hostile. Do these patients even realize that the doctors are people as well. Doctors at one time were revered in society not only for their knowledge and...
So You Think You Want to Be A Plastic Surgeon?
So you work hard for your first 12 years in school and you graduate from high school at the top of your class. You may be able to get into a great college if you have high SAT scores as well and stellar extracurricular activities or achievements. The next 4 years you...
Is Your Surgeon a Liposuction Expert? How Do You Know?
Plastic Surgery is the most competitive specialty in all of medicine. The residency is the hardest to gain admittance. The board certifying exams are the hardest in existence. Thus, the individuals that emerge from this in the last 2 decades are among the most...
Buttock Implants or Brazilian Butt lift for Buttock Augmentation or Hip Augmentation?
of performs several hundred butt augmentations each year in my practice comprised of both butt implant surgeries and fat transfers or Brazilian butt lifts. Dr. Kenneth B. Hughes...
Liposuction Safety with Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
In a NY Times article in 2002 called Liposuction Grows Safer As Less Fat Is Removed articulated the premise that the liposuction was safer with less fat removed. This is largely self-evident to plastic surgeons and the public at large. Certainly, less fat can be...