Warnings On Plastic Surgery Mistakes

young Australian woman has a two-centimetre bald strip across the top of her scalp after a botched eyebrow lift in Thailand.

Another returned home from an overseas breast enlargement with no cleavage as a result of a surgical error.

Both are now patients of Sydney plastic surgeon Norm Olbourne, the immediate past president of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons.

He's one of 36 plastic surgeons, mostly from NSW, who responded to a society email survey about having to treat complications of patients returning from cheap overseas cosmetic surgery tours.

Problems included "hideous scarring", infections in breast implants and failed tummy tucks.

Although most of the botched jobs were in Bangkok, the survey found patients had also suffered problems after surgery in the Philippines, Indonesia, Argentina, Iran and Ukraine.

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