'Botched': Pubic hair grows on patient's face after plastic surgeon uses groin tissue for skin graft
Crystal fell prey to an unfortunate event when she was bitten by a pitbull who ripped off a portion of her skin from her face when she was just nine years old. While she was rushed to the hospital, the ER physician advised her to undergo surgery. However, she was left surprised when the plastic surgeon suggested using "groin" tissue to replace the missing flesh.
The 'Botched' doctors were also left surprised as to why the doctor made that decision. "It's interesting why they chose it from the groin," Dr Terry Dubrow said. "Because there's so many places [from which to extract tissue]. They could've done the back, the abdomen…you obviously wouldn't do the armpit."
Crystal did not expect the hair to grow out of the skin graft and was surprised to find out that the hair started growing soon after she got the surgery. "So, you're getting pubic hair on your face," asked Dr Dubrow to which Crystal replied, "Yes. Literal pubic hair."
Crystal revealed that for a long time she did not care about what others would think but now that she was a mother to a beautiful daughter she had concerns about what her daughter might have to face because of this.
Crystal did not want people bullying her daughter for the way she looked and for her sake she decided to get the graft fixed. Dr Paul Nassif knew he had to help her and decided to take Crystal up for surgery. He removed her skin graft and decided to stitch the remaining portion to make sure that there won't be any more hair growing on her face.
He thought it would be better to have a small scar than to have a pubic hair growing on the face. To make sure that the surgery is successful, he created a pocket and filled it with fluid that would allow the healing of the skin to take place easily. While Crystal had to go on with her everyday life having a lump on her face because of the fluid, she was happy with the end result when the fluid was absorbed.
Crystal showed off her beautiful face as the patch on her face was gone and she was left with a small scar. She revealed she felt confident and beautiful after the surgery.
'Botched' airs on Mondays at 9 pm ET on E!
