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A French man, 24, took his own life after a botched beard transplant procedure performed in Turkey, his father claims.
Mathieu Vigier Latour travelled to Istanbul in March for the transplant, which cost him €1,300, a fifth of the surgery’s cost in France.
Following the operation, the business student’s beard was left irregularly shaped, growing at an unnatural angle and leaving it ‘hedgehog’ like, his father told media.
In addition, Latour suffered burns after the procedure and was having trouble sleeping due to the discomfort. The surgery also left him with 1,000 grafts of hair permanently damaged.
According to Latour’s father, the young man later discovered that the man who performed his transplant was not a qualified surgeon, but an estate agent.
As a result of his botched surgery, Latour fell into a ‘vicious cycle’ and suffered from dysmorphic disorder. 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, due to the poor extraction, which would leave him with a permanent bald spot on his lower hairline.
Latour ended up taking his own life three months after his botched transplant.
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