One trip. One price. Everything handled.
Surgery by an experienced surgical team at a licensed Istanbul hospital — with your hotel, transfers, interpreter and a full year of aftercare wrapped into a single fixed price. You book a flight. We do the rest.
No obligation. No sales call unless you ask for one.
Before anything begins: your hairline, drawn and agreed with you. It is the step that decides whether a result looks grown or planted.
This patient cuts hair for a living. He chose us.
A working barber — the hardest possible customer for this industry, and the most useful result we can show you.
Unretouched — exposure and colour normalised only, never the hair. How to read any clinic's before & after photos.
I look at hairlines all day. That's the job. I knew exactly what I didn't want — that hard, straight line you can spot across a room.
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Everything is included. Nothing is extra.
Most clinics sell a procedure and let you assemble the trip around it. We sell the whole thing — because for an international patient, the procedure is the easy part.
- The surgery itself — all surgical, theatre and hospital fees, blood tests and medication
- Your stay — 4★ hotel, breakfast included, twin room if you bring someone (5★ available as a paid upgrade)
- Every transfer — airport, hotel, clinic, airport again. You never find your own way
- Your own interpreter — nothing is signed or explained in a language you don't read
- Aftercare that follows you home — kit, first wash taught in person, photo reviews at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months
Not included: flights, and whatever you spend in the bazaar. That's the whole list.
Two friends who booked the same week — with the coordinator who met them at the airport and the clinician who looked after them.
Six techniques. One honest answer.
Every technique here is good at something and wrong for someone. We recommend by your pattern and your donor — not by our margin — and every page tells you who it doesn’t suit.
Whatever the technique, it starts the same way: your hairline, agreed in the mirror, before anything else happens.
Sapphire FUE
The modern standard — best value for larger areas, up to 3,500 grafts.
From€2,650 iiDHI
Implanter-pen precision where the hairline matters most. Costs more; isn’t always better.
From€3,200 iiiUnshaven
No visible shave — back at your desk in days, with nobody the wiser.
From€3,900 ivBeard
Patchy cheeks and thin lines, filled to match what’s already there.
From€2,200 vEyebrow
Rebuilt arches and tails — the smallest procedure we do, and the least forgiving.
From€2,200 viFor Women
Different biology, different questions — and an honest gate before surgery.
From€3,900Every result opens into the whole story.
No anonymous thumbnail wall. Each case states its technique, graft count and stage — and one click gives you the full journey behind it.
Four days, hour by hour. No gaps to imagine.
Arrive & consult
Met in the arrivals hall by your coordinator — a face and WhatsApp you already know. Hotel, blood tests, face-to-face consultation.
Surgery
Hairline agreed in the mirror before anything starts. Local anaesthetic — awake, comfortable, and allowed to stop.
First wash
Bandage off, grafts checked, and the first wash done for you and taught to you — on paper and on video to take home.
Fly home
Fly any time from the day after surgery. Photo reviews at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months on WhatsApp, answered by your team.
The day-after hotel visit — the check most clinics do by text message, done in person.
One named person, from the arrivals hall to your last photo review.
Look through our patients' photos and the same man keeps appearing — at the airport, at the hospital, at the hotel, at dinner. That continuity is the product.
Your coordinator handles everything in Turkish so you never have to, speaks your language, and answers his phone at 2am. Your surgical team plans the procedure and reviews your healing photos for a full year. Nobody hands you off.
How Academista works, and who looks after youSome people who contact us shouldn't have surgery yet.
If you're 23 and your hair loss is still moving, a transplant now will likely look wrong by 30. If your donor area can't support the area you want covered, no technique fixes that. We say so — it costs us bookings, and it's the most useful thing we do.
- Under 25 with actively progressing loss
- Hair loss that hasn't been medically investigated — especially in women
- Donor density that can't support the plan
- Expectations no surgeon can meet
And whatever you decide, you won't be hurried into it here:
- No countdown timers, no “summer offer ends soon”
- No pop-ups, no pressure calls, no “only two slots left”
- A written, fixed quote that doesn't change on the day
- An assessment that sometimes answers “not yet”
The questions people actually ask
In a licensed facility with a qualified team, yes — Turkey performs more of these procedures than anywhere on earth and its best teams are genuinely excellent. The risk is the enormous spread in standards. Your job isn't to judge a country; it's to verify one specific provider. We publish exactly what to verify — and answer it about ourselves in writing.
Surgery with all hospital and theatre fees, blood tests, medication, hotel with breakfast, every transfer, an interpreter, the aftercare kit, and twelve months of photo follow-up. Not included: flights and personal spending. The full list, itemised.
From €2,650 all-inclusive, published in full on this site with the exclusions listed. If you're quoted under about €1,500 all-in anywhere, something has been cut — usually the part you can't see.
It shouldn't. The tell-tale signs — a hard straight hairline, wrong angles, visible plugs — are design and placement failures. Judge any clinic, including us, on close-up frontal photos at twelve months in daylight. Here's how to read them.
Roughly 10–14 days to pass without comment at work. The transplanted hair then falls out around week three — expected, universal, terrifying if nobody warned you. Real growth starts near month four; the honest verdict is month twelve.
Your plan is agreed in writing before you book, and your twelve-month review is judged against it. Where growth has genuinely underperformed, we say so and arrange correction. We deliberately don't wave a “lifetime guarantee certificate” at you — specific commitments beat impressive-looking ones.
Three photos. A real plan. No pressure.
A graft range with the reasoning shown, a technique recommendation, a fixed all-inclusive price — and a straight answer about whether you should be doing this at all.
Typically reviewed within 48 hours. No sales call unless you request one.