Procedural Videos
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-educated, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, has treated thousands of patients from all over the world for both cosmetic or revision and reconstructive needs. Dr. Hughes really does make himself available to his prospective, current, and former patients morning, noon, night, weekends, and holidays. Dr. Kenneth Hughes offers virtual consultations through Skype during the COVID pandemic era to minimize contact among office personnel and patients alike. During these virtual consultations, Dr. Kenneth Hughes will discuss your needs and provide recommendations on procedures that will work best for you to achieve your goals. Dr. Kenneth Hughes will also respond to your emails or after hour calls AFTER you have had your plastic surgery as well.
bodytite and facetite videos
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SKIN TIGHTENING PROCEDURES
Dr. Kenneth Hughes performs a large number of Bodytite and Facetite procedures to help improve patient skin excess or laxity or to correct previous surgeries performed by other surgeons. Bodytite and Facetite utilize a radiofrequency technology that generates heat to cause circumferential contraction around the probe that is placed under the skin. Bodytite and Facetite represent the pinnacle of skin tightening technology and can cause 40% contraction of tissues. Other technologies do not cause this response. This is the result of it bipolar nature that concentrates energy for efficiently and reduces the risk of burns as well.
bodytite and facetite videos
Dr. Kenneth Hughes describes a number of the considerations for use of the bodytite and facetite technology made by InMode. Dr. Hughes has performed many of these skin tightening procedures both in the primary setting for loose skin and in the revision setting for improvement of unevenness or contours, particularly after previous failed liposuction attempts.
Dr. Hughes frequently combines liposuction revision techniques with Bodytite or Facetite technology to help yield the best and most predictable results.
bodytite results
Some of Dr. Kenneth Hughes’s Bodytite Results in Los Angeles – These are just a few of the Bodytite before and after photos. Dr. Kenneth Hughes has treated almost every area of the body hundreds of times. The abdomen, legs, and arms along with the face are the most commonly treated areas with Bodytite and Facetite.
bodylift to remove excess skin
Dr. Kenneth Hughes has performed hundreds of body contouring procedures including bodylifts, bra line back lifts, and conventional buttlifts to remove excess skin.
dr. kenneth hughes addresses body lift concerns
thigh lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes performs all types of thigh lift surgeries. The thigh lift procedures can be grouped into inner thigh lift, outer thigh lift and posterior thigh lift. The incision placement varies and can be complicated, but Dr. Hughes performs all of these procedures to produce the best result for an individual patient. Dr. Hughes will give the thigh lift options for your case, and you will not have to worry that something is being recommended, because the surgeon is only comfortable with performing that type of thigh lift.
thigh lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon, delves into many of the aspects of how thigh lift surgery is approached based upon the deformities or concerns in a patient as well as the individual goals a patient may have. The operative paradigm is largely the result of the compromise between acceptable scar burden and relative skin tonicity improvement.
breast augmentation with breast implants
breast lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon, Performs Breast Lift Los Angeles.
breast lift
Arm Lift, Breast Implant/Lift, Back Lift, Brazilian Buttlift Los Angeles with Dr. Kenneth Hughes
arm lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes describes considerations in arm lift surgery. He discusses the appropriate candidates for arm lifts. In addition, he describes the various types of arm lifts and what arm lifts may be appropriate for a given patient. In addition, he discusses a bit about expectations and the appropriateness of arm lifts vs nonexcisional skin tightening like Bodytite.
arm lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, discusses the various types of armlifts and the indications for performing them. Patients may have had significant weight loss, which results in the amount of skin laxity which Bodytite alone cannot rectify or reliably improve. Dr. Hughes discusses the extended arm lift and the axillary arm lift as well as variants in between.
brazilian butt lift
Dr. Kenneth Hughes discusses some of the analysis and techniques that are critical to overall success in the Brazilian buttlift. The Brazilian buttlift or BBL involves removing fat to sculpt the waist and transferring that fat to improve the shape, roundness, and projection of the buttocks and create an hourglass shape. The BBL can be performed on larger patients with more plentiful subcutaneous fat with dramatic results. The BBL can also be performed on thinner or skinny patients as well if. However, the level of skill possessed must be much greater.
2000 cc per side fat grafting to hips
The hips are wider than the operating table and too large to get within the frame of the camera. Obviously, not every patient wants this, but a few do. This is a liposuction and BBL revision, wherein the patient was not happy with the first surgery performed by another surgeon. Approximately 80% of Dr. Kenneth Hughes’s surgeries are revisions. It is always better to have the procedure performed correctly the first time than try to correct it with revisions in the future. It is also more economical and carries fewer risks.
smaller fat grafting to hips procedures
breast fat transfer
Breast fat transfer is a very popular procedure performed by Dr. Kenneth Hughes in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.
butt implants
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon, describes butt implant surgery in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. The butt implant complication rate is higher than with other surgeries like breast augmentation surgery, and these surgeries should not be equated with regard to recovery and the likelihood of complications. The most common complications include fluid collection, incision separation, infection, bleeding, and need for removal of implants or revision. The complication rate increases as the volume of the butt implant increases as Dr. Hughes always tells patients. Dr. Kenneth Hughes will recommend an appropriate-sized implant for each patient, and he will recommend a very specific recovery protocol.
liposuction
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-educated, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, performs liposuction of the abdomen, the sides, the lower back, and the upper back and transfers fat to the hips to produce a dramatic improvement in the waist to hip ratio. This liposuction and fat grafting procedure results in a much more hourglass figure. These procedures are frequently referred to as Brazilian buttlift procedures or BBLs. The liposuction 360 or lipo 360 procedure is a very popular and frequently requested procedure in Dr. Hughes’s practice. This liposuction 360 simply refers to liposuction all the way around the waist to make the waist as small as possible. Dr. Kenneth Hughes has performed thousands of these liposuction and fat transfer procedures in his surgery center in Los Angeles. Dr. Hughes is also an expert in liposuction revision and revision procedures of all sorts.
liposuction revision
Dr. Kenneth Hughes has performed thousands of liposuction and liposuction revision procedures in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Liposuction in its most basic sense involves removing subcutaneous fat from the body to help sculpt a more appealing physique. The most popular liposuction procedure involves liposuction of the abdomen, sides, and lower back, which results in a much smaller waist and a more hourglass figure. This liposuction procedure that involves liposuction all the way around the body is frequently referred to as lipo 360 or liposuction 360. However, almost any area of the body with subcutaneous fat can be liposuctioned. For more information on liposuction and the liposuction procedure, please visit Dr. Kenneth Hughes’s liposuction procedure page.
liposuction revision
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, is a liposuction expert and liposuction revision expert. If you have a less than optimal liposuction result, Dr. Kenneth Hughes has the experience and skill to improve these results and help you to reclaim your life. This educational video helps to instruct patients about the technical aspects of the surgery as well as methodology to improve certain aspects of a previous poor liposuction result.
rhinoplasty
Dr. Hughes has performed hundreds of rhinoplasties using the closed technique (no visible external scars, incisions are hidden inside the nose). This technique provides for less swelling and faster recovery. The method is harder to perform than open and requires manipulation of components and proper visualization.
silicone injection removal from buttocks video
mommy makeover
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, discusses the basic considerations for mommy makeover in Los Angeles. The mommy makeover in its simplest form or most generic sense addresses the breasts and tummy after pregnancy, delivery, and breast feeding. A breast augmentation and tummy tuck is the usual simplest combination of procedures to address the loose skin of the abdomen and the deflated breasts following pregnancy and breast feeding. However, there are many other considerations that may be involved in creating the best operative plan based upon patient anatomy and patient goals. Other procedures that may be performed concomitantly would include breast lift, liposuction, Brazilian buttlift or BBL, arm lift, thigh lift, and many others.
tummy tuck
Dr. Kenneth Hughes describes the elements of the tummy tuck procedure. The tummy tuck involves removal of excess skin and fat of the abdomen while tightening the abdominal wall and relocating the belly button on the flatter tummy.
There are various technical elements, which can separate a mediocre result from a great result. Dr. Hughes always generates a low lying transverse scar. The belly button is natural. The waist is always smaller and the figure is more hourglass and not boxy or square. The tummy tuck can frequently be combined with liposuction to further accentuate the figure. Dr. Kenneth Hughes also performs combination procedures with the tummy tuck like liposuction and Brazilian buttlift along with breast augmentation and breast lift among other surgeries. These combination surgeries can be referred to as mommy makeover surgeries.
what plastic surgery cannot achieve
Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, discusses just a few of the items that plastic surgery cannot achieve. Sometimes the skill of the surgeon is not nearly as important as the starting anatomy of the patient. Plastic surgery can only achieve so much particularly with one surgery. Many patients tune in to instagram and facebook and other social media venues to get their aspiration and goal pictures for their plastic surgery transformation. However, the truth is that those goals are not possible in the majority of plastic surgery candidates. Realistic expectations are critical to patient candidacy. Some patients cannot be pleased no matter what is done and it is always best to avoid these patients.