Kenneth Hughes, MD - Plastic Surgery Blog

Facebook and Instagram are utilized by many plastic surgeons to help promote their businesses.  Many plastic surgeons spend small fortunes to gain the attention of the prospective patients. For almost a year, Facebook and Instagram saw fit to restrict Dr. Kenneth Hughes’s profile and prevented him from inviting people and potential patients to like his […]

Dr. Hughes is Amazing. Look No Further. 25 Mar 2021 Dr. Hughes is amazing! He is so knowledgable and talented. His staff Magda and Nataly are wonderful also! His facility is pristine. It even smells good. Dr. Hughes fixed a botched lipo surgery I had on my arms and stomach. I am still healing, it’s […]

Incredibly Happy 29 Apr 2021 3 days post I got breast implants 2 years ago from another surgeon and have been very unhappy with them. They were different sizes, didn’t look right on my body, and he messed up the placement of one of my nipples. I finally got them redone with Dr. Hughes. I […]

Fat Transfer 11 Oct 2021 Day of treatment Dr Kenneth Hughes was great I had 2 procedure I love both of them. First procedure he had fix my butt implants a previous dr messed up on. I came back for a fat transfer my hips so far I love results him and Nataly we soo […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes in Los Angeles 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 their plastic surgery procedures outside of the United States.  Wendy Fry from the San Diego Tribune recently highlighted some of the problems […]

  Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles 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 people made up 53% of the morbidity for those patients hospitalized for coronavirus. However, these same individuals made up 58% of those hospitalized.  […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Harvard-trained board certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, has performed thousands of elective cosmetic surgery procedures.  The patient base is generally healthy as this is elective surgery.  However, some of the patients who elect to pursue elective plastic surgery may have medical issues or mutations, which may make them more susceptible to […]

Unfortunately, I, Dr. Kenneth Hughes, 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 and helped me to empathize with my patients. I see a lot of patients in […]

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 removed at a given time. Certainly, this would be safer […]

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, Los Angeles plastic surgeon, sees at least 2 to 3 patients a week who have had injections of one of more foreign substances including silicone, PMMA, hydrogel, and biopolymers into the buttocks, hips, lips, face, any many other areas of the body for volume improvement.  Black market injection of foreign substances into […]