Who performs hair transplants at Istanbul clinics?
Clinics describe their operating model in two ways: the named surgeon carries out the key steps, or a team shares them, with the surgeon supervising. Both are common, and neither is wrong. Read what the clinic's own site says about each step, and ask in writing who extracts and who implants.[1]
Hair transplant clinics, one row each
| Clinic | Lead surgeon | What the clinic states | Model | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASMED Surgical Medical Center | Dr. Koray Erdoğan, MD | To be confirmed with the provider | Not stated | ASMED Surgical Medical Center guide |
| Cosmedica Clinic | Dr. Levent Acar | “together with his medical team, has performed over 20,000 successful hair transplants” Clinic page | Team-led | Cosmedica Clinic guide |
| Dr. Özlem Biçer MD Clinic | Dr. Özlem Biçer, MD | “At Dr. Biçer’s clinic, all hair restoration techniques are personally performed by Dr. Biçer.” Clinic page | Surgeon-led | Dr. Özlem Biçer MD Clinic guide |
| Dr. Serkan Aygın Clinic | Dr. Serkan Aygın | “Supported by a Skilled Team of 5+ Doctors” Clinic page | Team-led | Dr. Serkan Aygın Clinic guide |
| Dr. Yetkin Bayer Clinic | Dr. Yetkin Bayer | “Dr. Yetkin Bayer Clinics consist of a team of qualified health personnel ranging from physicians, dentists, and other aesthetic specialists.” Clinic page | Not stated | Dr. Yetkin Bayer Clinic guide |
| Smile Hair Clinic | Dr. Gökay Bilgin and Dr. Mehmet Erdoğan | “Operations at Smile Hair Clinic are performed by medical doctors and a healthcare team.” Clinic page | Team-led | Smile Hair Clinic guide |
Why it matters who performs each step
Ask which parts of the procedure the surgeon performs personally — extraction, incision, implantation — and which are carried out by technicians. Technician-assisted work is common and not inherently wrong; being unable to get a straight answer about it is.
A hair transplant has distinct steps: planning and hairline design, graft extraction, creating the recipient sites, and implantation. A clinic can name a surgeon for the whole procedure or for some steps only.[1]
What to ask a clinic in writing
Put these questions to any clinic, and keep the written answers.
- Which parts of the procedure will the surgeon perform personally, and which will technicians perform?
- What is the surgeon's name and where is their specialty registration held?
- How many grafts do you estimate for my case, and on what examination is that estimate based?
The full list of eight is in the hair transplant guide.
How we compiled this
Each row comes from the clinic's own pages, read between 14 October 2026 and 14 October 2026. The quote is the clinic's wording, with the page it comes from. The model column states what those pages say: surgeon-led where they say the named surgeon carries out the steps, team-led where they describe a team sharing them, not stated where they say neither. Where we could not read a statement, the cell says so. The list is not a ranking and carries no assessment.
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LinkedIn →Sources
Every register and professional body this guide relies on, so that the figures above can be checked at the organisation that publishes them rather than taken from us.
- 1.ISHRS — International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery
Runs the only regularly published census of hair restoration practice. Worth reading directly, because the market-share figures quoted for Türkiye in clinic advertising are not drawn from it.
- 2.T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı — Ministry of Health of Türkiye
Licenses every clinic and hospital operating in Türkiye, and issues the separate health tourism authorisation a facility needs before it may treat international patients.
- 3.USHAŞ — International Health Services
The Ministry of Health's own body for international patients. Publishes which facilities hold health tourism authorisation, and takes complaints from patients treated in Türkiye.
- 4.Türk Tabipleri Birliği — Turkish Medical Association
The professional body for Turkish physicians. Its membership records are not publicly searchable from abroad as far as we could establish.
Listing a body here is not a claim of endorsement by it. Where a figure could not be traced to a source of this kind, it was removed from the guide rather than published unattributed.