French student, 24, kills himself after getting a botched beard transplant 'by an estate agent pretending to be a surgeon in Turkey'

A French man took his ain life aft his beard transplant successful Turkey was botched by an property supplier posing arsenic a surgeon, his begetter claims. 

Mathieu Vigier Latour travelled to Istanbul successful March for nan transplant, which costs him €1,300 - a 5th of nan value of having it successful France.

But nan curen saw him suffer 1,000 grafts of hair, while having 4,000 transferred from his caput to his face.

Following nan operation, nan business student's beard was near irregularly shaped, increasing astatine an unnatural perspective and leaving it 'hedgehog' like, his begetter said.

In addition, Mr Latour, 24, suffered burns aft nan process and was having problem sleeping owed to nan discomfort.

He later discovered that nan man who performed his transplant was not successful truth a qualified surgeon, but an property agent, nan Daily Telegraph reported.

As a consequence of his botched operation, Mr Latour fell into a 'vicious cycle' and suffered from dysmorphic disorder, a information successful which group obsess astir defects successful their appearance. 

A Belgian master who was attempting to correct nan process said his scalp would ne'er retrieve successful nan spot wherever nan grafts had been lost.

He ended up taking his ain life 3 months aft going to Turkey for nan transplant.

Mr Latour's begetter is now campaigning to amended consciousness astir nan risks of seemingly inexpensive wellness tourism.

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

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