After an estate agent posing as a surgeon botched his beard transplant in Turkey, a French man committed suicide.
For the €1,300 transplant, Mathieu Vigier Latour flew to Istanbul in March, according to Mail Online. However, as a result of the procedure, he lost 1,000 hair grafts and had 4,000 moved from his head to his face.
According to the Telegraph, he later learnt that the man who had done his transplant was actually an estate agent rather than a trained physician.
Due to his poorly executed surgery, Latour had a “vicious cycle” and developed dysmorphic disorder, a disorder in which an individual becomes fixated on flaws 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.
