Student takes own life after botched beard transplant by ‘Turkish estate agent’

A French pupil took his ain beingness aft undergoing a botched beard transplant successful Turkey carried retired by a existent property cause posing arsenic a surgeon.

Mathieu Vigier Latour, 24, travelled to Istanbul successful March for the transplant, which outgo him conscionable €1,300- 5 times little than the process costs successful France.

The young Frenchman booked the process aft seeing the session carried the stamp of support from the Turkish ministry of health, his grieving begetter Jacques told French media.

But the process turned retired to beryllium an unmitigated disaster. During the operation, which saw 4,000 grafts removed.

During the operation, successful which 4,000 grafts were removed from the backmost of Mr Vigier Latour’s caput and transferred to his face, the clinician astir mislaid 1,000 of the grafts.

This caused Mathieu’s beard to turn successful an irregular, poorly mapped manner which saw hairs sprouting astatine unnatural angles crossed his face, causing him overmuch misery.

‘When it started to turn out, it looked similar a hedgehog, it was unmanageable,’ his begetter said successful an interrogation with broadcaster BFM TV.

‘He was suffering, helium wasn’t doing well. He was successful pain, suffered from burns, and helium couldn’t sleep.’

Mathieu aboriginal researched the surgeon and recovered helium was not a qualified surgeon astatine each but an property cause moonlighting arsenic one, the Telegraph reports.

As a effect of his botched operation, the pupil fell into a heavy slump and suffered from a terrible assemblage dysmorphic disorder, a intelligence wellness information which causes radical to obsess astir defects successful their appearance. 

His household aboriginal contacted a Belgian specializer who was attempting to close the procedure, but told Mathieu his scalp would ne'er retrieve the spot wherever the grafts had been lost.

‘He entered a vicious ellipse and couldn’t get out,’ his begetter said.

Three months aft the archetypal operation, Mathieu took his ain beingness astatine his pupil accommodation successful Paris, the Telegraph reports.

His begetter is present campaigning to amended consciousness astir the risks of seemingly inexpensive wellness tourism.

He said it would beryllium ‘a tribute to Mathieu’ if his son’s shocking acquisition could assistance forestall akin tragedies from happening again.

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