We checked 44 Turkish hair transplant clinics. 7 will put a price in writing.
Written by Michael Seutin,
founder — former nurse, researching transplant pricing.
We read every clinic's own website and recorded two things the industry does not publish about itself: whether it names the surgeon who operates, and whether it puts a price in writing. Of the 36 clinics in our directory, 7 publish a rate and 32 name a physician. A further 8 businesses were checked and never made the directory at all — they are named below, with what we observed and the date we observed it.
Finding 1 — almost nobody publishes a price
29 of 36 clinics do not put a rate on their own site. The standard model is a WhatsApp consultation and a photo, followed by a number. That means the price you are quoted is decided after someone has looked at you and formed a view of what you will pay — which is a different thing from a price list.
These are the clinics that publish a rate on their own website. It is the entire list:
- AHD Clinic — Antalya
- Asmed Surgical Medical Center — Istanbul
- Civas & Akpınar Hair Transplant — Ankara
- DK Klinik — Antalya
- Dr. Cinik Hair Transplant — Istanbul
- Dr. Terziler Exclusive Clinic — Istanbul
- Hairneva Clinic — Istanbul
Every other price on this site is our estimate, built from package pages
and comparable clinics, and it is labelled as ours everywhere it appears — including in
the dataset, where the field is literally called our_estimate. We would
rather show you our workings than a confident number nobody checked.
Finding 2 — most clinics do name a surgeon, and a few name nobody
32 of 36 clinics name at least one physician on their own website. That is better than the industry's reputation suggests, and it is worth saying plainly: this is the finding that went the clinics' way.
These clinics were checked — a human read their own site — and no physician was named on it. That is the observation, on the date shown on each profile. It is not a claim about who performs surgery there, and we do not publish it as one:
- Heva Clinic — Istanbul, checked 14 July 2026
- Istanbul Hair Center — Istanbul, checked 14 July 2026
- Tecni FUE Hospital — Istanbul, checked 14 July 2026
- Vera Clinic — Istanbul, checked 14 July 2026
Several of those are among the most heavily advertised clinics in Turkey, which is what makes the silence worth reporting. Two of them describe "our surgeons" in the plural while naming none of them.
A separate category: Longevita and MCAN Health are booking agencies, not clinics, and say so on their own sites. They place you into a hospital they do not name in advance, so the question "who operates?" cannot be answered before you land. They stay in the dataset, labelled — hiding the category would hide it from anyone studying the market — but they are excluded from every clinic count on this page and from every best-clinics list.
Why this is weighted above price in our rubric: you find out the price eventually. You may never find out who was holding the punch. Background: the ghost surgeon problem and the questions to ask before you pay.
Finding 3 — the 8 we checked and did not list
This is the part no other directory publishes, and it is the part that makes the rest of it auditable. If we only show you our inclusions, you cannot tell a curated list from a list of whoever paid. So here is everything we turned away, what we observed, and when.
| Business | Checked | What we observed |
|---|---|---|
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Mono Hair Transplant
Izmir
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4 Jul 2026 | Carried in our own initial seed data as an Istanbul clinic. When checked on 2026-07-04, "Clinic Mono" was an Izmir medical-travel agency rather than an Istanbul clinic. Removed because listing an agency as a clinic would misrepresent it. |
| Reviva Clinic | 4 Jul 2026 | Carried in our own initial seed data as an Istanbul clinic. When checked on 2026-07-04, no primary source for an Istanbul clinic of this name could be found; revivaclinic.com is a clinic in Chandigarh, India. Removed as unsourced. |
| Vintage Hair Clinic | 4 Jul 2026 | Carried in our own initial seed data as an Istanbul clinic. When checked on 2026-07-04, no primary source for a clinic of this name could be found. Removed as unsourced. |
|
Este Center
Istanbul
|
13 Jul 2026 | A real Istanbul clinic. Across two research passes (sprints 004 and 006, the second on 2026-07-13) we found no published prices, no stated accreditation and no named hair transplant surgeon — nothing a comparison entry could be built from. Removed for want of comparable data, not for anything found on the site. |
|
GETFUE
Antalya
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13 Jul 2026 | The site described the clinic as "headed by an experienced surgeon" and named no physician anywhere on its own pages when checked on 2026-07-13. A surgeon's name appeared in third-party listings only, which we do not treat as the clinic's own statement. |
|
medicalhair.org
Izmir
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13 Jul 2026 | A second domain for the same Izmir practice as ulusanclinic.com (Dr. Sibel Ulusan), which is already in the directory as Ulusan Clinic. Excluded so that one practice is not counted twice. Re-confirmed on 2026-07-14. This is a bookkeeping exclusion and says nothing about the practice. |
|
PROFUE
Antalya
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13 Jul 2026 | The site referred to "our surgeon and his team" and named no physician anywhere on its own pages when checked on 2026-07-13. |
|
Eges Hair Clinic
Izmir
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14 Jul 2026 | The site named a "Saç Ekim Koordinatörü" (hair transplant coordinator) and no physician anywhere on its own pages when checked on 2026-07-14. No accreditation was stated on the site. |
By reason: 3 named no physician on their own site · 1 an agency or intermediary, not an operating clinic · 3 no primary source to build a listing from · 1 a second domain for a practice already listed. Two of those categories carry no criticism at all — a duplicate domain and an unverifiable listing are bookkeeping about our data, not findings about anyone's business. Three of the records are names from our own early seed data that turned out to resolve to no real business, which is a failure of ours and is published as one.
What this report does not prove
- It says nothing about surgical outcomes. We hold no outcome data, nobody publishes any, and a medical site that invents an outcome number is lying to you. A clinic that names its surgeon and publishes a price may still be a bad clinic.
- Publishing a price is not the same as charging it. It means the number exists in public before you are in the room.
- "Named no physician on the date we checked" is not "no surgeon operates there." It is a statement about a website on a date, and that is the only claim we make.
- Coverage is Turkey-only — Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Izmir — so nothing here generalises to the industry worldwide.
- Nothing here is medical advice, and none of it is a safety assessment.
Check our work
Every figure above is read from our database when this page loads — none of it is typed — and the whole dataset is a free download under CC BY 4.0, including the rejections. Use it, republish it, or use it to prove us wrong. All we ask is a link.
If you run one of these clinics
Started naming your surgeon, or publishing your rates, since we checked? Tell us and we will re-check and update this page. Every rejected domain is also re-checked quarterly on our own schedule, and the result is published whichever way it goes. Get in touch — a clinic that has changed is the correction we most want to make.
Not on either list, and never checked? Ask us to check the clinic — the same rubric, and the result is published whichever way it goes.
Questions, answered honestly
Very few. Most clinics quote per case after a WhatsApp consultation and a photo, which means the price you are given is set after someone has assessed how much you are willing to pay. The live count of clinics that put rates on their own website is on our transparency report and in our public dataset, read from the database rather than typed, so it is current whenever you read it. Every other price figure we publish is labelled as our estimate, because it is ours and not the clinic's.
It means we read the clinic's own website on a stated date and found no physician named on it. That is all it means, and it is all we will say. It is not proof that no surgeon operates, and we do not publish it as one. We record three separate states — the clinic names a physician, we checked and found none named, or we have not checked — and we never let the third collapse into the second. A clinic whose site blocked our crawler is in the third state until a human opens it in a browser.
Because a directory that only shows its inclusions cannot be audited. If we never show you what we turned away, you have no way to tell a curated list from a list of whoever paid us. Publishing the rejections with the observed reason and the date is the only thing that makes the inclusions mean anything — and it is the part of this work that no competitor publishes.
Then the record is wrong and we want to fix it. Every rejected domain is re-checked quarterly and the result is published whichever way it goes; a clinic that now names a physician moves into the directory. You can also tell us directly and we will re-check out of cycle. Every record carries the date we looked precisely so that it can be challenged.
Yes, including commercially. The full dataset is published under CC BY 4.0 — use it, sell it, build on it, remix it. The only condition is that you credit Compare Hair Transplant with a link and say if you changed anything. We would rather this data was used everywhere with our name on it than sat here being ours.
No, and we would rather lose the reader than pretend otherwise. Everything measured here is disclosure and credentials — what a clinic is willing to put in writing, and what its accreditations survive being checked against the issuing body. We hold no surgical outcome data, nobody publishes any, and a medical site that invents an outcome number is lying to you. Use this as a shortlist to research, not a verdict.