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He does not just perform the procedure.
He certifies the surgeons who do.

Dr. Yetkin Bayer performed his first hair transplant in 1994 and developed the oblique canal opening technique his clinic still works with today. The Turkish Ministry of Health licenses his practice as a certified training centre, which means physicians travel to Istanbul to be taught by him.

That is a different category from the clinics you meet first when you start searching, and it is the single reason I stopped looking.

Dr Yetkin Bayer

On the record

1994First transplant performed

Developed the oblique canal opening technique still in use at the clinic.

50,000+Procedures completed

By the clinic's medical team, per its own published figures.

FACSAmerican College of Surgeons

Fellow, and an ISHRS member since 2016. He also lived in Texas for roughly ten years.

LicensedMinistry of Health training centre

Authorised for international health tourism and to certify visiting physicians.

Kuruçeşme, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

The clinic sits on the European shore of the Bosphorus. Your hotel and every transfer are arranged around it, so the furthest you travel on procedure day is across the neighbourhood.

Waterfront houses along the European shore of the Bosphorus
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