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'It Looked Like A Hedgehog': French Student Kills Self Over Beard Transplant Fiasco By 'Fake' Surgeon
The 24-year-old student, identified as Mathieu Vigier Latour, had travelled to Istanbul in March for beard transplant surgery. The transplant had cost him around€1,300 - a fifth of the price of having it in France, his father said.
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A French student killed himself after a beard transplant fiasco in Turkey, claimed his father. The treatment left the student's beard irregularly shaped and growing at an unnatural angle.
He later discovered that the man who performed his transplant was not in fact a qualified surgeon, but an estate agent.
The 24-year-old student, identified as Mathieu Vigier Latour, had travelled to Istanbul in March for beard transplant surgery. The transplant had cost him around€1,300 - a fifth of the price of having it in France, his father said.
The treatment saw him lose 1,000 grafts of hair, while having 4,000 transferred from his head to his face.
Following the operation, the student's beard was left irregularly shaped, growing at an unnatural angle and leaving it 'hedgehog' like, his father said, adding that due to the same his son was having trouble sleeping.
He had also suffered burns after the procedure. Latour fell into a 'vicious cycle' and suffered from dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which people obsess about defects in their appearance, his father added.
A Belgian specialist who was attempting to correct the procedure said his scalp would never recover in the patch where the grafts had been lost.
He ended up taking his own life three months after going to Turkey for the transplant.
The student's father is now campaigning to improve awareness about the same as he thinks that it would be 'a tribute to Mathieu' if his son's shocking experience could help prevent similar tragedies from happening again.
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