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Last verified: 7 August 2026. This page profiles six hair transplant clinics in Istanbul using only what each clinic publishes about itself — where it is, which doctors it names, and which techniques it lists. It does not rank them, does not score them, and does not quote their prices.
Two companion pages carry the other halves of this subject. Google ratings and public review counts for a different set of ten clinics are on our clinic ratings list. Costs, and the checks that separate a doctor-led clinic from a high-volume one, are in the ratings, costs and how to choose guide. This page is the third piece: the clinic profiles themselves.
Disclosure: Istanbul Care, Estemoon and Albania Hair Clinic are one group, and that group published this page
Istanbul Care, Estemoon and Albania Hair Clinic are brands of the same group, and this page was published by that group. That is a conflict of interest, and it is stated here — before the profiles rather than after them — so you can weigh the list accordingly.
A “best clinics in Turkey” list written by a clinic that quietly slips its own brands into the ranking has the same problem whichever name sits at number one. So this page is constrained in ways you can audit:
- Our own three brands are not in the profile list. Istanbul Care, Estemoon and Albania Hair Clinic are described separately further down, and labelled as ours.
- Nobody is ranked. The six clinics are in alphabetical order. There is no number one on this page, ours or anyone else's.
- Nobody is scored. No star ratings, no review counts, and no “leading”, “award-winning” or “world-class” applied by us to anyone. Those words are marketing, not measurement.
- We do not publish other clinics' prices. We cannot verify them, and an unverifiable number about a competitor is worse than no number at all.
- Everything carries a date. Every profile below was read from the clinic's own website on 7 August 2026. Websites change, so check that date before you rely on a detail.
Apply the same test to any clinic list you find, including this one. Ask who published it, whether they sell the procedure, and whether they are paid per referral.
How these profiles were built
Source. Each clinic's own public website — the pages it controls and chooses to publish.
Date read. 7 August 2026, in English where an English site was offered.
What is included. The address or district the clinic publishes, the doctors it names, and the techniques it lists.
What is deliberately excluded. Ratings and review counts, because those belong on the ratings page, where they were measured on a single stated date with a stated method. Prices for anyone other than ourselves. And success rates, graft-survival percentages and patient totals — figures of that kind circulate widely in this sector, we could not verify a single one against a primary source, so none appear here.
Why these six. They are Istanbul clinics that are not already covered on our ratings list, so the two pages complement each other instead of repeating. Clinicana, Dr Serkan Aygın and Vera Clinic are profiled there, with their public ratings, and are therefore not repeated here.
What a profile is not. Nothing below is an endorsement, and nothing below is a recommendation to book. A clinic's own website tells you what that clinic wants you to know. That is genuinely useful, because it is checkable and because a gap between what a clinic publishes and what it tells you on a call is informative. It is not independent evidence.
Six hair transplant clinics in Istanbul, listed alphabetically
ASMED (Dr Koray Erdoğan)
Where. Ataşehir, on the Asian side. The site publishes the address as Atatürk Mah., Sedef Caddesi No: 1/1.
Who is named. Dr Koray Erdoğan.
What the site lists. Manual FUE is given its own section rather than being folded into a general FUE page. The site also carries a workshops section, an academic studies section, and before-and-after galleries organised by Norwood stage rather than as an undifferentiated grid.
Reading it. Galleries sorted by Norwood stage are easier to use than a mixed gallery, because you can look at cases that started roughly where you are starting. A published teaching and academic section is a checkable claim: the material is either there to read or it is not.
Cosmedica (Dr Levent Acar)
Where. Şişli, on the European side. The site publishes the address as Esentepe, Kore Şehitleri Cd. No:2/1, 34394.
Who is named. Dr Levent Acar, described on the site as a graduate of Istanbul University's medical faculty.
What the site lists. Micro Sapphire DHI, Sapphire FUE and standard FUE, plus beard and eyebrow transplants.
Reading it. A single named surgeon is a clearer accountability line than an unnamed “expert team”, but it is not the same as a commitment that this surgeon performs your incisions. That is a question for the consultation, not the website.
Estenove
Where. Şişli, on the European side.
Who is named. Dr Zafer Çetinkaya.
What the site lists. Sapphire FUE and DHI using Choi implanter pens, alongside beard and eyebrow work and dedicated pages for female, Afro-textured and Asian hair. It also markets PRP, a stem-cell treatment, a needle-free anaesthesia system and a chilled graft-preservation method.
Reading it. Dedicated pages by hair type are worth something, because curl pattern and follicle angle genuinely change how extraction is planned. The add-on treatments are a different matter: “stem cell” is used loosely across this sector for several unrelated products, so ask precisely what is being injected, and ask what evidence the clinic relies on. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a safety notification on exosome products marketed to patients, which is worth reading before agreeing to any cell-based add-on.
Hermest Clinic
Where. Istanbul. The pages read on 7 August 2026 state the city but not a district.
Who is named. Dr Ahmet Murat and Dr Nesim Tüğen, plus a dermatologist who is referred to but not named on the pages read.
What the site lists. FUE, DHI, an in-house FUE variant, unshaven transplants, long-hair FUE, beard transplants and female hair transplants.
Reading it. The homepage title carries the words “best” and “award-winning”. Neither is a fact you can check unless the awarding body, the year and the category are named, so that is a reasonable thing to ask for directly. The same test applies to every clinic that uses those words, including any that use them about us.
Now Hair Time
Where. Pendik, on the Asian side. The site publishes the address as Fevzi Çakmak, Tevfik İleri Cad., Meşe Çk. No:2, Kat:3, 34899.
Who is named. Dr Deniz Dağdelen, listed as a specialist dermatologist, and Melik Yağmur, listed as founder.
What the site lists. FUE, Sapphire FUE, DHI and unshaven transplants, plus two named in-house methods.
Reading it. Branded technique names are common in Istanbul and usually describe a variation on FUE or DHI rather than a distinct operation. The useful question is not what the brand name means, but which of the four recognised steps — extraction, storage, channel opening, implantation — it actually changes, and who performs each of them.
Smile Hair Clinic
Where. Ümraniye, on the Asian side. The site publishes the address as Tatlısu, Alptekin Cd. No:15, 34774.
Who is named. Co-founders Dr Mehmet Erdoğan and Dr Gökay Bilgin, together with three further named hair transplant surgeons.
What the site lists. Sapphire FUE, DHI, manual FUE, unshaven transplants, long FUE and body hair transplants, plus female and Afro-textured hair pages and beard, moustache and eyebrow work.
Reading it. Naming five surgeons rather than one is a different operating model, not automatically a better or worse one. It usually means capacity, and capacity is exactly why you should ask which named surgeon is assigned to your date before you pay a deposit.
Our own three clinics, stated separately because we own them
Istanbul Care, Estemoon and Albania Hair Clinic are brands of the group that publishes this website. They are deliberately kept out of the alphabetical list above, and they are not compared against it. On the same terms as the profiles, here is what we publish about ourselves.
Istanbul Care is a hair transplant clinic in Istanbul. Our published package prices are $1,990 for FUE Sapphire, $2,290 for Organic DHI and $2,490 for Gold DHI Ultra. What each package covers, and what is charged separately, is set out on our packages page and our Turkey cost page. The procedures themselves are described on the FUE and DHI pages, and the hair transplant overview explains how a plan is put together. If you want a rough sense of scale before contacting anyone, the graft calculator is free and requires no details from you.
Estemoon is a sister brand of the same group operating in Istanbul. Albania Hair Clinic is the group's brand in Tirana. Both are named here for disclosure. Neither is presented as an independent recommendation, because neither would be one.
One thing we have removed. Earlier drafts of this material described Istanbul Care using a “years of experience” figure. We could not evidence that number, so it is not on this page. Clinic-age claims are among the easiest things in this sector to inflate and among the hardest for a patient to check. Where a number cannot be evidenced, leaving it out is more honest than rounding it up — and that applies to our own copy first.
What a clinic's own website cannot tell you
Every profile above is drawn from marketing material. Marketing material is not worthless — addresses and named doctors are checkable, and inconsistency is a signal — but there are specific things it structurally cannot answer.
- Who is holding the punch on your day. A website names doctors. It does not tell you which parts of your operation a doctor performs and which parts trained technicians perform under supervision.
- How many operations run in parallel. Nor how many patients one surgeon is nominally responsible for at the same time.
- Whether the named surgeon is the one you will meet. In a clinic that names several, assignment happens after booking, not on the site.
- What the gallery leaves out. Every published gallery is a selection. Cases that did not go well are not in it, at any clinic.
- What happens if you are unhappy. Revision terms are rarely on a public page and are worth getting in writing before you travel.
Five questions to put to any of these clinics
These are deliberately narrow, because they are the questions a website cannot pre-answer.
- Which of the doctors named on your site will open the channels on my operation day, and will that person be present for the whole session?
- How many procedures does the clinic run on the same day, and how many of the staff move between rooms?
- Your site lists a technique under a brand name. Which stage does it actually change — extraction, graft storage, channel opening or implantation — and who performs that stage?
- If the site says “award-winning” or “accredited”: which body, which year, and what is the certificate number?
- What is written down about revisions — who decides that one is needed, on what timeline, and at whose cost?
The how to choose guide goes further into what the answers should sound like, and the ratings list covers what you can verify about a clinic yourself in about ten minutes.
Frequently asked questions
Why are Istanbul Care, Estemoon and Albania Hair Clinic not in the list of six?
Because the same group owns all three and published this page. Including our own brands in a list we compiled would be a conflict of interest presented as a comparison. They are described separately and labelled instead.
Are these six the best hair transplant clinics in Istanbul?
This page makes no such claim. The six are listed alphabetically and are not ranked, scored or graded. They are profiled because they are Istanbul clinics not already covered on our ratings page, and the profiles report only what each clinic publishes about itself.
Why does this page not show ratings or prices for these clinics?
Ratings are on the ratings page, where they were read on a single stated date with a stated method, so mixing them in here would obscure when they were measured. Prices for other clinics are not published because we cannot verify them; the only prices on this page are our own.
Which districts of Istanbul are these clinics in?
Of the six profiled, two publish addresses in Şişli on the European side, and one each in Ataşehir, Ümraniye and Pendik on the Asian side. One states Istanbul without naming a district. Distance matters more than it sounds: cross-city transfers in Istanbul traffic are part of your recovery days, not just your arrival day.
Does a clinic naming several doctors mean a doctor performs the whole procedure?
No. Naming surgeons on a website establishes who is associated with the clinic, not how the work is divided on the day. In Turkey the incision stage is a physician's responsibility while extraction and placement may be carried out by trained technicians under supervision, and how strictly that is applied varies. Ask for the division of labour by name and by stage.
Sources and further reading
- International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery — professional body; surgeon directory and patient guidance.
- NHS: hair loss — causes and treatment options, written for patients.
- NHS: going abroad for treatment — what to establish before travelling, and what the NHS will and will not cover afterwards.
- American Academy of Dermatology: hair loss resource centre — dermatology-led background on diagnosis.
- GOV.UK: Turkey travel advice, health — official guidance for travellers, including medical treatment abroad.
This page is general information about how to read clinic profiles. It is not medical advice, and it does not assess whether a hair transplant is appropriate for you. That requires an examination by a qualified doctor.