‘Botched’ nose job student fails in bid for £35k damages
A STUDENT who was left with a ‘kink’ in her nose by a top plastic surgeon has failed in a £35,000 bid for compensation.
Mijin Zahir, 27, said she asked Harley Street specialist Shailesh Vadodaria for an ‘ideal’ nose with ‘perfect symmetry’.
But waking up after the July 2010 operation, she said she was horrified to see the results of the procedure carried out by Mr Vadodaria, who has featured in Channel 4 show Embarrassing Bodies.
In the High Court yesterday, Mr Justice Garnham dashed her hopes of winning damages when he ruled that the surgeon had not been negligent.
The judge agreed that the slight ‘deviation’ in the straightness of Miss Zahir’s nose had been ‘ somewhat accentuated’ and there was also a ‘kink’, in her right nostril caused by buckling of the cartilage.
But the surgeon had carefully explained to her ‘the limitations of surgery’ and that the outcome might not meet her expectations, he said.
Mr Vadodaria’s lawyers said he warned her in clear terms that ‘success could never be guaranteed’.
Barrister Ranald Davidson told the court: ‘The results of cosmetic procedures are variable. A surgeon cannot be held negligent because the result is not perfect.’
Exonerating the surgeon, Mr Justice Garnham ruled: ‘The cause of the kinking was not negligence on the part of Mr Vadodaria.’
Miss Zahir, of Colindale, North London, had claimed ‘the whole ordeal has had an enormous impact on my life’. Even after ‘revision surgery’ by Mr Vadodaria in June 2011, she had remained deeply dissatisfied.