Dr Mohamed Derder is a famous plastic surgeon working in European Georges Pompidou Hospital and also doing private practice in Paris. Born in Algeria, 42 years old Mohamed has qualified high competitive exams, has obtained 8 higher education Diplomas during his training to gain the skills required to be a quality aesthetic surgeon. If that was not enough, he also travelled to the US several times in order to improve his skills in cosmetic surgery.
Back in 2003, when he came to France, he was just 23 years old general medicine graduate who was trying to find out about the surgical speciality he needs to do. Mohamed opted to become a plastic surgeon following the suggestion of his cousin who was also working in the same profession in Switzerland. And now he is helping all kinds of clients in reforming their looks.
To reach this point in life, Mohamed Derder has done a lot of hard work and sacrifices. He prepared for two and a half years for a very selective competition in which only one out of twenty candidates was admitted. “These were the most difficult years of my life,” he says and adds, “Between being alone without my family, the difficulties of accommodation and the obligation to stay focused on my exams, I really sacrificed years to work non-stop to achieve my objective.”
But now he finds his struggle worth it and loves his job. “I love my job, it’s a very fashionable job, which is changing day by day and patients are more and more demanding, they like to feel beautiful, have self-confidence.”
Talking about the clients he gets, Mohamed says, “The clients who come to see me are very varied, it can be the elderly woman who wants to rejuvenate and regain her face when she was younger or the patient who after childbirth wants to regain her figure before her pregnancies. Or a young patient who wants to modify part of her body to make it more feminine or more attractive or sometimes the desire to look like her idol (a star for example).”
He also talks about how social media filters have increased the demand. “Snapchat filters, for example, encourage patients to consult to look like the result they see thanks to the filter,” says Mohamed Derder. Talking about his male clients, he says, “Men also consult, the requests are varied from rejuvenation to the desire to have a more athletic body, the demand from men is clearly increasing. In my daily practice, I currently do a lot more cosmetic surgery than reconstructive surgery (such as surgery after cancer or reconstructions to treat the sequelae of burns) The cosmetic surgery that I practice is often facial interventions such as rhinoplasty, I also do facial rejuvenation. For silhouette surgery, I do a lot of liposuction, lipofilling, breast augmentation.”
