Istanbul Clinics for Hair Transplant

There are over 100 hair transplant clinics in Istanbul, although considerably fewer than that advertise in English and have an international marketing bias. I identified four to visit in one day, which all had a unique offering.




New Age Clinic :

No:11, C1-67, 34365 Fulya / İSTANBUL




Set up by three former senior Transmed people - two surgeons and a clinic manager, New Age provides a full suite of plastic surgery options but Dr Ilker Apaydin specialises in hair transplants and has been performing them for over fifteen years. Both surgeons are members of ISHRS

İlker Apaydın




Este World

Kısıklı Cad. No:33/1 Altunizade – Üsküdar / İstanbul




Dr Hamiloglu who is the main surgeon here also has a past life at Transmed and is an extremely experienced and well thought of doctor. The facilities here are impressive; a mini hospital serving I would imagine hundreds of patients per day. Emphasis here is on splitting the time of the surgeon across several patients each day (around 10 hair transplant patients per day), and allowing nurses to do the bulk of the work. You still get a consultation with the surgeon and he plans the operation, but does not do all the work himself. As a consequence, it's a lot cheaper.


FUE only clinic

www.esteworldinternational.com




Este Turkey

Having gained quite a bit of media exposure in Turkey, Dr Aslan operates from this boutique clinic in Osmanbey. It's stylish, and as a reciepient of the surgery himself, Dr Aslan does know what he's talking about. Again, this clinic offers only FUE treatment, and the surgeon prefers its less invasive technique. It also allows nurses to do more of the work which keeps the costs lower than others (though this is not the cheapest by a long way). He also takes an interesting approach which is to make sure patients do not set their expectations too high, which is to be commended.


Not to be confused with EsteWorld!

Este Turkey - Doctor Aslan - Hair Transplantation




Istanbul Hair Center

Although not a member of ISHRS (as far as I can tell), this clinic holds the record for the highest number of FUE grafts ever taken in one session from a patient. Obviously, there is a safe limit to what they would recommend, but performing hundreds of operations per year this clinic is one of the oldest and has considerable experience. Slightly cheaper than the others, you may not know which surgeon will be in charge of your operation until the day, and nurses or technicians will carry out most of the procedure. However, a typical package will include hotel accommodation and is extremely competitively priced.


Another quirk is the clinic's "guinea pig". The driver for the Istanbul Hair Center was offered free treatment in exchange for close monitoring of his progress. So the nice thing about this clinic is that you can be guaranteed of meeting a real-life patient and judging for yourself the results.

http://www.istanbulhaircenter.com/en