Giving New Life to Revision and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Patients

LOS ANGELES - April 30, 2021 - PRLog -- Dr. Kenneth Hughes sees many reconstructive and revision plastic surgery patients who have lost all hope.  Patients may have sustained deformities due to trauma, previous surgery, birth defect or developmental abnormality, and they do not want to live a life where they look in the mirror with disgust and regret.   This perception is absolutely integral to their mental health and ability to lead a productive life.  To dismiss these types of surgeries as vanity is to dismiss what makes people human.

One patient had three previous liposuctions, a tummy tuck revision with umbilical reconstruction, areas of previous burn from energy-based liposuction techniques and irregularity and deformity of the entire abdomen.  In addition, this patient had previous hernia repair.

Even if a person has had hernia repair and no hernias are present on physical exam or CT or MRI, the patient should realize that there are small hernias cannot be picked up on CT or MRI but can still allow admittance of the cannula.  These patients with multiple previous incisions and multiple previous poor liposuction results have a very unfriendly internal environment that the plastic surgeon must navigate.   This applies to other related cases as well such as Brazilian buttlifts or BBLs (https://www.hughesplasticsurgery.com/body-procedures-los-...).

The question becomes why would you even do the surgeries if the risk is higher? In an extremely deformed patient where Dr. Hughes feels that he can make a significant improvement and improve quality of life, he explains all of these potential complications. Dr. Kenneth Hughes will do the best job of avoiding those complications but the risk is certainly not zero.  Dr. Kenneth Hughes has performed thousands of these very difficult liposuction revision surgeries over the years and has given life back to thousands of people.  So when you evaluate a surgeon, a surgeon who has performed thousands of difficult liposuction revisions should not confused with the average surgeon who has performed a few hundred primary liposuction cases.

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It is sometimes very difficult for patients to know what types of surgeries a surgeon performs and the relative level of difficulty. However, looking at some of the YouTube videos can give some insight into how truly complicated the surgeries are. They are complicated from an evaluation standpoint, an intellectual standpoint, a technical standpoint, a recovery standpoint and a complication standpoint. All of these risks and benefits have to be weighed accordingly to determine if this patient is a suitable candidate for that plastic surgical procedure. There are no easy determinations to be made in these high stakes, complicated plastic surgery scenarios, and the decision to move forward with surgery is made by surgeon and patient in collaboration.