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RAS Medical Aesthetics

RAS Medical Aesthetics

4.6 rating from 330 reviews
Practice Information
11600 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, California
(310) 893-8726

About the Practice

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Medical Director: Ryan A. Stanton, MD
1036 Before & After Photos
330 Reviews
707 Answered Questions

Doctors & Other Staff Members

Ryan A. Stanton, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
4.6
Claire F.
Registered Nurse
5
Natalie Buenaventura
Nurse Practitioner
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1,036 Before & After Photos

330 RAS Medical Aesthetics Reviews

Aestheticmiami
Butt Implants•2 months post-op•April 28, 2025
Incredible Result and Experience!
Aestheticbb
Hip Implants•5 days post-op•April 18, 2025
Hip and Buttocks and Upsizing
Independent346620
Butt Implants•2 days post-op•February 5, 2025
Finally Got my Buttock Implants!
SarahAmie
Hip Implants•3 months post-op•January 24, 2025
New Butt and Hips!
Petite Asn BB
Hip Implants•1 day post-op•November 19, 2024
Hip & buttock implants together - I really want that hourglass shape
hannnn321
Butt Implants•1 month post-op•October 11, 2024
My New Booty is Perfect and Changed my Life!
Lfrias809
Hip Implants•2 months post-op•October 2, 2024
With each passing day, I am more confident in my decision
Agirlfromoregon
Butt Implants•1 day post-op•September 27, 2024
Made me feel very safe
joykristie
Breast Augmentation•21 months post-op•September 18, 2024
Breast Aug and Lipo
Elizabeth Mary
Butt Implants•11 months post-op•September 7, 2024
Love my results - I wish I just went the implant route first

707 Answers

Butt Implants
Q Would butt implants give me my desired results or would I be disappointed ? (Photos)
A Allow me to answer your question as best i can based upon your photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person, or at least a virtual, consultation with physical exam is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations can be made. There are currently only two FDA approved surgical options for augmenting the buttock/hip area: 1) Buttock and cosmetic Hip Implants (which are soft semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/or leak) and 2)Brazilian Butt Lift (aka BBL) - which utilizes the patients own fat from liposuction then transfers this fat into the buttock. On the other hand, BBL using fillers such as hyaluronic acids, Sculptra, etc… is a dangerous, guaranteed waste of money, and is NOT FDA approved. So what it comes down to, like any surgery, is proper patient selection and long-term results. Implants provide the only guarantee for a sustained permanent result and tend to be ideal for perking up not only lean or deflated buttocks but also providing substantial projection to any butt, which is what every single patient wants. Typically a combination of sculpting the waistline with liposuction and augmenting the buttock with implants +/- the hips with implants provides the best chance for a long lasting and desirable "hour-glass" figure. Based upon your photos, a Stanton Anatomic®️ shape buttock implant may serve you best. Unfortunately, fat typically melts away leaving disappointing results after 12 months, often sooner. Unless your BBL surgeon is injecting only 200 to 300 ccs of fat into each buttock cheek, a large percentage of that fat is going to die. Dead fat leads to dents and dimpling like cellulite, unevenness, loss of projection, and fatty necrotic oil cysts which are hard marbles and can be very tender Unfortunately, because ~70+ % of the fat transferred will melt away within a year or two, most patients are not good candidates for BBL because they lack an adequate amount of fat to harvest. Beware, if a surgeon asks you to purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) before BBL, know that the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weight after surgery is that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock, hence your new buttock shrinks first, the fastest, and the most...so please do not fall victim to this recommendation. Even those patients that had adequate amounts of fat pre-operatively, still end up seeking buttock implants after a year or so because most of the fat transferred melted away leaving them with minimal result. Fillers such as Sculptra are cost prohibitive, provided enough volume is injected (i.e. at least 400 cc of active ingredient costing over $300,000) and last only 12 - 18 months. Additionally, any physician promoting “biostimulators” for buttock enhancement is just a joke, and any board certified plastic surgeon promoting such, should not be trusted with your butt. So, if you're looking for a reliable, predictable, and long-term permanent option that also provides projection in the upper, central and lower buttock and hips, buttock and hip implants are your solution. Procedures marketed as “supercharged BBL” or “hybrid BBL” that add fat at the same time of implants are simply marketing ploys. Fat that is added at the same time as a buttock implant is doomed to melt away 90+ percent. Thereby rendering it completely useless. The reality is, when buttock implants are properly placed 100% intramuscular (i.e. surgically and precisely positioned within the gluteus muscles, not subfascial and not dual-plane and not on top of the muscles), there is absolutely no need for fat transfer. Please note that an extremely few number of board certified plastic surgeons specialize in buttock or hip implants, so you may need to travel far and away from home to find this particular surgeon. Getting it done right the first time around is not only the best chance for success, but also will save you from a lot of headaches and money in the future. Glad to help.
Answered by Dr. StantonAugust 12, 2025
Butt Implants
Q Skinny BBL - implants hybrid BBL. Can implants have long term sitting discomfort on patients who are boney? (Photos)
A Allow me to answer your question as best i can based upon your photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person, or at least a virtual, consultation with physical exam is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations can be made. There are currently only two FDA approved surgical options for augmenting the buttock/hip area: 1) Buttock and cosmetic Hip Implants (which are soft semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/or leak) and 2)Brazilian Butt Lift (aka BBL) - which utilizes the patients own fat from liposuction then transfers this fat into the buttock. On the other hand, BBL using fillers such as hyaluronic acids, Sculptra, etc… is a dangerous, guaranteed waste of money, and is NOT FDA approved. So what it comes down to, like any surgery, is proper patient selection and long-term results. Implants provide the only guarantee for a sustained permanent result and tend to be ideal for perking up not only lean or deflated buttocks but also providing substantial projection to any butt, which is what every single patient wants. Typically a combination of sculpting the waistline with liposuction and augmenting the buttock with implants +/- the hips with implants provides the best chance for a long lasting and desirable "hour-glass" figure. Based upon your photos, a Stanton Anatomic®️ shape buttock implant may serve you best. Unfortunately, fat typically melts away leaving disappointing results after 12 months, often sooner. Unless your BBL surgeon is injecting only 200 to 300 ccs of fat into each buttock cheek, a large percentage of that fat is going to die. Dead fat leads to dents and dimpling like cellulite, unevenness, loss of projection, and fatty necrotic oil cysts which are hard marbles and can be very tender Unfortunately, because ~70+ % of the fat transferred will melt away within a year or two, most patients are not good candidates for BBL because they lack an adequate amount of fat to harvest. Beware, if a surgeon asks you to purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) before BBL, know that the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weight after surgery is that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock, hence your new buttock shrinks first, the fastest, and the most...so please do not fall victim to this recommendation. Even those patients that had adequate amounts of fat pre-operatively, still end up seeking buttock implants after a year or so because most of the fat transferred melted away leaving them with minimal result. Fillers such as Sculptra are cost prohibitive, provided enough volume is injected (i.e. at least 400 cc of active ingredient costing over $300,000) and last only 12 - 18 months. Additionally, any physician promoting “biostimulators” for buttock enhancement is just a joke, and any board certified plastic surgeon promoting such, should not be trusted with your butt. So, if you're looking for a reliable, predictable, and long-term permanent option that also provides projection in the upper, central and lower buttock and hips, buttock and hip implants are your solution. Procedures marketed as “supercharged BBL” or “hybrid BBL” that add fat at the same time of implants are simply marketing ploys. Fat that is added at the same time as a buttock implant is doomed to melt away 90+ percent. Thereby rendering it completely useless. The reality is, when buttock implants are properly placed 100% intramuscular (i.e. surgically and precisely positioned within the gluteus muscles, not subfascial and not dual-plane and not on top of the muscles), there is absolutely no need for fat transfer. Please note that an extremely few number of board certified plastic surgeons specialize in buttock or hip implants, so you may need to travel far and away from home to find this particular surgeon. Getting it done right the first time around is not only the best chance for success, but also will save you from a lot of headaches and money in the future. Glad to help.
Answered by Dr. StantonAugust 12, 2025
Butt Implants
Q Butt Projection over 50. What procedure that will give me upper and lower fullness and a rounded backside? (Photos)
A Allow me to answer your question as best i can based upon your photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person, or at least a virtual, consultation with physical exam is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations can be made. You are in good company with many others who had high hopes for BBL but instead received disappointing results (lumpiness, unevenness, lack of projection in the central and/or lower buttock, insignificant hip augmentation, post-deflation sagging, fatty necrotic cyst or scar tissue, etc.) as most of the fat melts away. It is not quite as much the quality of the doctor nor liposuction technique but rather the quality of the procedure that is a large part of the problem. Thus, going back for additional rounds of BBL most often produces the same disappointing results but at another financial loss. Beware, if a surgeon asks you to purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) before BBL, know that the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weight after surgery is that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock, hence your new buttock shrinks first, the fastest, and the most...so please do not fall victim to this recommendation. Unfortunately, you also fell victim to the marketing hype of fillers, such as Sculptra, simply a rip-off and always guaranteed to fail, period! Buttock/hip implants, however, provide a more reliable, predictable, relatively safe, and permanent result, especially for adding projection to the hips and central buttock, and often help smoothing out lumpiness. Occasionally a lower buttock tuck may be advantageous for lower buttock fold asymmetries and/or sagging. When considering buttock implants make sure that the surgeon is going to be placing the implants within gluteus muscles , (a.k.a. “intramuscular pocket”), and that they are using anatomically correct, oval-shaped implants, such as Stanton Anatomic ®️ implants. Please keep in mind that an extremely few number of board-certified plastic surgeons specialize in these buttock implants so be sure to consult with one that is reputable and experienced. Unfortunately you may have to travel long and far away from home to find this particular surgeon. Glad to help.
Answered by Dr. StantonAugust 12, 2025
Butt Augmentation
Q How can I fix this whole in my butt caused by an injection? (Photos)
A Allow me to answer your question as best i can based upon your photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person, or at least a virtual, consultation with physical exam is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations can be made. This is often from a corticosteroid injection, given inadvertently into the buttock fat layer instead of into the muscle. The medicine proceeds to melt away, good fat and even thin out the skin layer creating an indentation such as you have. This tissue is often not a great candidate to accept fat transfer. That being said, one round of fat transfer is usually not enough and if two or three rounds of fat transfer, still do not sufficiently fill in the depression then your only option may be to consider, buttock implants. Buttock implants are definitely a much more reliable and permanent option, as long as you are willing to Increase the volume and projection of both buttock cheeks at the same time. Fillers such as Sculptra and hyaluronic acids are cost prohibitive, provided enough volume is injected (i.e. at least 100 cc of active ingredient costing over $100,000 for something like your case), and last only 12 - 18 months. Additionally, any physician promoting “biostimulators” for buttock enhancement is just a joke, and any board certified plastic surgeon promoting such, should not be trusted with your buttock. Please note that an extremely few number of board certified plastic surgeons specialize in buttock implants, so you may need to travel far and away from home to find this particular surgeon. Getting it done right the first time around is not only the best chance for success, but also will save you from a lot of headaches and money in the future. Glad to help.
Answered by Dr. StantonJuly 9, 2025
Butt Augmentation
Q Will implants help to get rid of hip dips and make my buttocks more rounded? (Photos)
A Allow me to answer your question as best i can based upon your photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person consultation with physical exam, or at least a virtual consultation, is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations are made. Buttock implants occasionally provide the added feminine heart-shaped curves that many patients are looking for. However this is mostly only when viewing the postoperative result from the back side . When trying to achieve an hourglass figure viewed from the front side of the body, actual cosmetic hip implants need to be placed either at the same time or instead of buttock implants. Please read on. In general, cosmetic hip implants are the most reliable, predictable, and permanent option for filling in the hip dips and creating more of that feminine hourglass figure, whether slim or not. On the other hand, fat transfer to the hip area tends to survive quite poorly in most patients and thus produces only short term results (often less than 10-12 months). Injections/fillers such as Sculptra or hyaluronic acids are cost prohibitive (i.e. guaranteed to be the biggest waste of money of your entire lifetime), short lasting and possibly deadly with high volume injections. Other more permanent fillers such as silicone/PMMA/hydrogels/etc are cheap but extremely dangerous and a personal commitment to a life of serious and sometimes deadly consequences. Typically hip implants are best custom designed and created for each individual patient’s anatomy. Because an extremely few number of board-certified plastic surgeons perform buttock and/or hip implant procedures, make sure you only seek consultation with a reputable and experienced surgeon. You very well may have to travel a long distance from home to find this particular surgeon. Glad to help.
Answered by Dr. StantonJune 27, 2025

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