A top plastic surgeon dubbed the “nose maestro” by the French press has been suspended from practicing after patients claimed he “mutilated” them — including several women insisting he turned their noses into “potatoes.”
Olivier 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,
A top plastic surgeon dubbed the “nose maestro” by the French press has been suspended from practicing after patients claimed he “mutilated” them — including several women insisting he turned their noses into “potatoes.”
Olivier 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,
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 discover the doctor had fitted her with a chin prosthesis she had protested before going under.
“I feel like I’ve been mutilated,” said Alix. “When I woke up, I was vomiting liters of blood. The doctor must have used a trowel. Since then, I’ve had a horrible burning sensation, air rushes in too strong and gets on my nerves. Gerbault has ruined my life.”
The doctor has maintained his innocence in spite of his conviction and has claimed the patients were pressured to produce false claims by an unnamed rival surgeon.
“These patients are all connected and the complaints are strictly the same, sometimes down to the last word. It’s obvious that they are being helped by a colleague, which is particularly serious and unprofessional,” he said, according to Le Parisien.
Despite his ban, Gerbault was granted permission from the Hauts-de-Seine département, west of his Paris clinic, to continue practicing — though the nose doctor told the newspaper he has “ceased all surgical activity since the start of the year.”
