Hi all,
Very, very long time lurker here! I've just had two online assessments for FUE (after reading these forums for years and years, on and off). One Turkish clinic, and another in India. I've had fairly differing initial assessments from my submitted photos, but I'll come to that another time...
My question is... Why Turkey?
The two clinics I've been looking at are Armamed (Dr Demirsoy), and Eugenix in India (Dr Arika & Sethi). For a long time I had my heart set on Demirsoy (one patient per day, performs extractions & incisions himself, good reviews and body of results online and only 1.25EUR per graft).
But for the same price (give or take depending on the chosen package), I can go to India and get an FUE procedure at Eugenix. Their results look fantastic, they use microscopes ensuring no double or even triple grafts in the hairline (which seems a common issue even among the better Turkish doctors, and something I was/may still be able to look past in Turkey given that Demirsoy's work looks very natural regardless of the odd wrong graft in the wrong place), they are on Joe Tillman's "recommended" list (which I think is a very strong endorsement worth considering), the amount of time the grafts are out of the body is reduced through the DHT method which seems to yield quite fast results and as mentioned, the cost difference is negligible (even less expensive on two of their packages!), especially for what seems a top level clinic ( which I'm very open to being challenged on this - that's why I'm making this post!!).
So I'm somewhat personally struggling to see why Turkey looks a better option all things considered. Direct flights to India from the UK are about 8.5 hours. London to Istanbul approx. 3.5 hours. So we're talking only an extra 5 hours on a plane and about £150-250 extra in flight costs. That seems a fairly trivial trade-off for superior quality of FUE - assuming, of course, the quality of work, the follow ups/aftercare and of course the results are indeed superior and natural. And the cost of surgery in Turkey in India is approximately the same. It's certainly a damn sight cheaper than Belgium or the US, which is far beyond my own budget, and, I expect, most others'.
Is India a path less trodden simply because Turkey is so popular and many do not do much research regarding other options elsewhere in the world? Is India more popular for Brits/Europeans than maybe I actually realise? Is there something I'm missing (maybe Eugenix, for eg, isn't actually that good at all and someone will save me a potential hazard!!).
Would love to hear your thoughts and input.
Very, very long time lurker here! I've just had two online assessments for FUE (after reading these forums for years and years, on and off). One Turkish clinic, and another in India. I've had fairly differing initial assessments from my submitted photos, but I'll come to that another time...
My question is... Why Turkey?
The two clinics I've been looking at are Armamed (Dr Demirsoy), and Eugenix in India (Dr Arika & Sethi). For a long time I had my heart set on Demirsoy (one patient per day, performs extractions & incisions himself, good reviews and body of results online and only 1.25EUR per graft).
But for the same price (give or take depending on the chosen package), I can go to India and get an FUE procedure at Eugenix. Their results look fantastic, they use microscopes ensuring no double or even triple grafts in the hairline (which seems a common issue even among the better Turkish doctors, and something I was/may still be able to look past in Turkey given that Demirsoy's work looks very natural regardless of the odd wrong graft in the wrong place), they are on Joe Tillman's "recommended" list (which I think is a very strong endorsement worth considering), the amount of time the grafts are out of the body is reduced through the DHT method which seems to yield quite fast results and as mentioned, the cost difference is negligible (even less expensive on two of their packages!), especially for what seems a top level clinic ( which I'm very open to being challenged on this - that's why I'm making this post!!).
So I'm somewhat personally struggling to see why Turkey looks a better option all things considered. Direct flights to India from the UK are about 8.5 hours. London to Istanbul approx. 3.5 hours. So we're talking only an extra 5 hours on a plane and about £150-250 extra in flight costs. That seems a fairly trivial trade-off for superior quality of FUE - assuming, of course, the quality of work, the follow ups/aftercare and of course the results are indeed superior and natural. And the cost of surgery in Turkey in India is approximately the same. It's certainly a damn sight cheaper than Belgium or the US, which is far beyond my own budget, and, I expect, most others'.
Is India a path less trodden simply because Turkey is so popular and many do not do much research regarding other options elsewhere in the world? Is India more popular for Brits/Europeans than maybe I actually realise? Is there something I'm missing (maybe Eugenix, for eg, isn't actually that good at all and someone will save me a potential hazard!!).
Would love to hear your thoughts and input.
