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

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A French man took his own life after his beard transplant in Turkey was botched by an estate agent posing as a surgeon, his heartbroken father claims.
Mathieu Vigier Latour travelled to Istanbul in March for the transplant, which cost him €1,300 - a fifth of the price of having it in France.
But 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 business student's beard was left irregularly shaped, growing at an unnatural angle and 'hedgehog' like, his father said.
In addition, Latour, 24, suffered burns after the procedure and was having trouble sleeping due to the discomfort.
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Mathieu Vigier Latour after his botched transplant in Istanbul, which was performed by a real estate agent posing as a surgeon

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Latour before his operation. The student tragically took his own life after the procedure left his scalp permanently damaged

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The treatment left the French man'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 Telegraph reported.

As a result of his botched operation, Latour fell into a 'vicious cycle' and suffered from dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which people obsess about defects in their appearance.

A Belgium 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.

Latour's father is now campaigning to improve awareness about the risks of seemingly inexpensive health tourism.

He said 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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GratsTheat783 said:
It's sad he killed himself, but you get what you pay for.
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Turkey generally is good when it comes to these, there's a reason so many people go there. Sadly this young man got the short end of the stick, but someone who cared about his own appearance to the extent that he did should have played it safe and get the transplant done locally
 
Did he blindly accept the lowest offer? Was it in an authorised clinic? Did he look at the certification of the doctor?

I feel like there should have been enough warning signs before the process.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Did he blindly accept the lowest offer? Was it in an authorised clinic? Did he look at the certification of the doctor?

I feel like there should have been enough warning signs before the process.
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Mathieu Vigier Latour, 24, went in March to the clinic in Istanbul, where a beard transplant cost a fifth of the price he would have paid in France.

The business school student booked the €1,300 (£1,082) procedure after he was reassured by seeing that the clinic carried the stamp of approval from the Turkish health ministry, his father Jacques Vigier Latour told French media.
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Looks like the guy was just unfortunate and went to a clinic that was run by a conman with connections to the turkish health ministry
 
batteredpancakes said:
I've never seen a beard transplant look good tbh. They all have that hedgehog look.
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Isn't there also a topical beard oil that has testosterone in it that will make the beard growth thicker?

I've heard of the parents of pooner children finding it in their kids rooms.
 
teriyakiburns said:
This is no different to tranny shit. The idea that cosmetic surgery can fix your life is mentally and socially destructive.
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I mostly agree. Some people really do benefit from - usually minor - cosmetic procedures. I knew a girl who had really bad front teeth and after she got them fixed the difference in her self-confidence was very noticeable. This crapaud was a faggot, though.
 
His first mistake was getting something as retarded as a beard transplant and the second was trusting a Turkish man.
 
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Iron Jaguar said:
I mostly agree. Some people really do benefit from - usually minor - cosmetic procedures. I knew a girl who had really bad front teeth and after she got them fixed the difference in her self-confidence was very noticeable. This crapaud was a faggot, though.
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I can totally understand getting teeth fixed. Everything else is just wrong. Nothing is a bigger turnoff (for me at least) than plastic surgery. So many wealthy obsessive types who were born with good looking unique faces have utterly ruined themselves with plastic surgery. I think it is foul and sad.
 
Iron Jaguar said:
I mostly agree. Some people really do benefit from - usually minor - cosmetic procedures. I knew a girl who had really bad front teeth and after she got them fixed the difference in her self-confidence was very noticeable. This crapaud was a faggot, though.
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Teeth health isn't cosmetic though, insurance kikes just like to pretend it is. Bad teeth lead to a plethora of health problems, even heart disease.
Transplanting hair from your head sounds like the most retarded thing on earth.
 
Who puts hair from their head on their chin? Don't you need that shit? Are there no bald men in France?

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Sorry, but I'm not sympathetic. This guy apparently didn't know what he hadn't lost.
 
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