Top French plastic surgeon suspended after patients claim he turned their noses into potatoes: Mutilated

A top French plastic surgeon has been suspended from practicing after patients claimed he “mutilated” them — including several women insisting he turned their noses into “potatoes.”Oliver Gerbault, 58, was handed a two-year ban in November 2023 after a string of patients filed complaints with the medical ethics committee, claiming they were left in worse shape after going under the knife.Gerbault — who has continued practicing despite the ruling — claims his accusers are in cahoots with an unidentified rival to smear him, Le Parisien reported Friday.

The surgeon is appealing the decision.One woman, who used the alias Elisa in court documents, stated she had high hopes that Gerbault — renowned for his claim to have “invented ultrasonic rhinoplasty” — could straighten her “hooked” nose in 2020.Instead, she woke up from the surgery in shock.“My nose was long, crooked, thick and looked like a potato,” she told Le Parisien.

“My left nostril was collapsing and I couldn’t get any air through.”Gerbault allegedly hailed the surgery a success — even as Elisa cried in front of a mirror.“When I drank water, my nose touched the glass.I couldn’t blow my nose, so I had to use cotton buds,” she said.That same year, another woman, who used the name Chloé in court filings, suffered the same fate.“I had a lump [in place of my nose], a big potato,” she told the outlet, adding that over time, her new nose became infected and her nostrils collapsed.

Eventually, she lost her job and was diagnosed with depression.“From then on, I lost all taste for life,” Chloé said.The desperate woman returned to Gerbault with hopes he could reverse his hack job, but her appearance only worsened.“I had a strange white button on my nose.

In fact, it was a piece of cartilage sticking out,” she said.“He massacred me.”Gerbault was also accused of giving patients surgeries they didn’t want: victim Alix woke up from her rhinoplasty surgery to ...