FAILED tummy tucks, infections in breast implants, scarring and severed facial nerves are just some outcomes of botched overseas plastic surgery that Australian surgeons are being asked to fix.

Thirty-six plastic surgeons - mostly from New South Wales - have reported treating patients with complications ranging from "hideous scars and an awful aesthetic result" to a woman who lost her hair after a brow lift.

"We strongly suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg," society president Bill Cockburn said.

"Of those surgeons that responded to our survey, at least 11 reported treating more than one patient with complications.