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luke1994
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This is going to be a long but an in depth review. Here is my honest experience of my hair transplant at the Clinic center, Istanbul. Upon arriving into the arrivals area in the airport, it took us 20 minutes to find other people that were having treatments with the clinic and then a further 15 minutes to find the person that was organising our transport. We arrived at the hotel, checked in. I'll leave the hotel out of the review as it's a separate business but the hotel they provide is dirty, it looked great on pictures but I suppose that's standard. On the day of the transplant I was originally supposed to go to the hospital at 8am but then it got changed to 11am on the day. We got a taxi to the public hospital and the only way I can describe the place is dirty, dull and unsafe. The area was just somewhere you didn't want to be. Going into the hospital and seeing it full of locals waiting for a&e instantly sent my anxiety through the roof. I got taken into a room, had my blood taken, my hairline drawn on. At first, they drew me a hairline that looked a little like a McDonald's 'M' but I asked them to change it as this wasn't the look I was going for.
My op starts and the injections for the anaesthetic begin. These injections are very painful I don't know how people can say they don't hurt, they do. The "trichologist" as they called her started punching the holes around the grafts, I felt slightly worried considering the speed she was doing this. After a couple of hours, the grafts were taken and I had more injections in my front. The incisions were done and the "trichologist" started to implant the grafts, after around 20 minutes, the trichologist went, never came back and left the young technician to do the rest, she must have been about 20 years of age. After the operation had finished, she took some pictures. At first, I thought that looks dense but then I realised the grafts were actually not that close together but they had a lot of skin around each graft which suggests the punch size they used was too large. I got put in a Y reg Corsa that felt like it was going to fall apart (called by the technician) and went back to the hotel fearing for our lives as the driver had no hands on the wheel at one point going down a bypass, nightmare.
I had my hair wash the next day, then the day after that went back to the UK. I did everything they told me to do for my aftercare. After 4 months had passed, I saw literally no growth. I was worried but was told this was normal, so the months went by, it got to 6 months, not much growth, the months went on 8 months 10 months then finally I got to 11 months with very thin hair. They kept telling me it was ok but it obviously wasn't I'd had enough so demanded they did something about it. They said for me to get a refund I needed a malpractice report from a PUBLIC hospital, not a private one, which just isn't something you can get from an NHS public hospital. They then offered to do me another transplant for £500 plus my flights which I declined. They eventually refunded me with £400 after I said I was going to post my review online and warn other people.
The total cost for my transplant was £1250 plus my flights at £250. I haven't spoken to them since and I wish I'd have done more research before jumping in and trusting reviews on what clinic from people who have only had their transplant for a week and not seen the end results before posting. I'm now nearly 14 months post op and I've been lucky enough to be offered a fix for my hair transplant by The Hair Dr, close to Leeds in the UK. I'm having this op on Monday the 2nd of March so I will be sure to keep this updated with my results. I'll post some pictures of my hair after my first transplant in Turkey.
Day of operation.
Day after operation
3 months post op
5 months post op
11 months post op
This is 14 months, my final result.
Here is my video documentation.
My op starts and the injections for the anaesthetic begin. These injections are very painful I don't know how people can say they don't hurt, they do. The "trichologist" as they called her started punching the holes around the grafts, I felt slightly worried considering the speed she was doing this. After a couple of hours, the grafts were taken and I had more injections in my front. The incisions were done and the "trichologist" started to implant the grafts, after around 20 minutes, the trichologist went, never came back and left the young technician to do the rest, she must have been about 20 years of age. After the operation had finished, she took some pictures. At first, I thought that looks dense but then I realised the grafts were actually not that close together but they had a lot of skin around each graft which suggests the punch size they used was too large. I got put in a Y reg Corsa that felt like it was going to fall apart (called by the technician) and went back to the hotel fearing for our lives as the driver had no hands on the wheel at one point going down a bypass, nightmare.
I had my hair wash the next day, then the day after that went back to the UK. I did everything they told me to do for my aftercare. After 4 months had passed, I saw literally no growth. I was worried but was told this was normal, so the months went by, it got to 6 months, not much growth, the months went on 8 months 10 months then finally I got to 11 months with very thin hair. They kept telling me it was ok but it obviously wasn't I'd had enough so demanded they did something about it. They said for me to get a refund I needed a malpractice report from a PUBLIC hospital, not a private one, which just isn't something you can get from an NHS public hospital. They then offered to do me another transplant for £500 plus my flights which I declined. They eventually refunded me with £400 after I said I was going to post my review online and warn other people.
The total cost for my transplant was £1250 plus my flights at £250. I haven't spoken to them since and I wish I'd have done more research before jumping in and trusting reviews on what clinic from people who have only had their transplant for a week and not seen the end results before posting. I'm now nearly 14 months post op and I've been lucky enough to be offered a fix for my hair transplant by The Hair Dr, close to Leeds in the UK. I'm having this op on Monday the 2nd of March so I will be sure to keep this updated with my results. I'll post some pictures of my hair after my first transplant in Turkey.
Day of operation.
Day after operation
3 months post op
5 months post op
11 months post op
This is 14 months, my final result.
Here is my video documentation.