education insights | January 10, 2026

Dr. Kenneth Hughes, MD – Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Kenneth Hughes MD, Dr. Kenneth Benjamin Hughes, is a Harvard-educated, board-certified plastic surgeon in Los Angeles. Dr. Kenneth Hughes achieved the highest level of education and training prior to practicing in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Dr. Kenneth Benjamin Hughes received his honors degree from Harvard University in 1999. Dr. Kenneth Hughes graduated from medical school in the top 5% of his class and scored in the top 1% nationally on his licensing boards.

Dr. Kenneth Benjamin Hughes was awarded entrance into the most selective integrated plastic surgery program where he received extensive training for six years in general and plastic surgery procedures. Dr. Kenneth Hughes was selected as only the second plastic surgeon to pursue a year long aesthetic and cosmetic surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Kenneth Hughes MD has authored numerous papers and textbook chapters on cosmetic surgery topics including face lifts, rhinoplasty and nose surgery, breast augmentation, fat grafting, fillers, scars and scar revision, the preoperative workup for plastic surgery, and photography in plastic surgery.

Dr. Kenneth Benjamin Hughes specializes in performing virtually scarless or minimal scar surgery for the face, nose, and breast. Some of these techniques include short scar face lift, facial fat grafting (facelift technique without visible scars), closed rhinoplasty (no visible external scars), chin implants with no external scar, short scar tummy tuck, and TUBA (breast augmentation without scars on your breasts).

Kenneth Hughes MD performs breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction, brow lift, upper and lower eyelid surgery, liposuction, liposuction revision, tummy tuck, Brazilian buttlift or BBL, butt implant, silicone removal, biopolymer, PMMA, and hydrogel removal, fat death or dead fat removal, fat necrosis removal, mommy makeover, body lift, arm lift, thigh lift, labiaplasty, and vaginoplasty.