‘This country’ has become a mecca for 1 million people with hair loss… A story about changing one’s appearance

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2024-05-14 04:13:32

Turkiye: The government takes active measures such as tax cuts to keep prices low.

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The story of a man who went to Turkiye for a hair transplant after his friend, who also suffered from hair loss, went on a medical trip to Turkiye and his hair grew thicker, became known.

On the 11th (local time), the American media outlet ‘Business Insider’ published the experience of reporter ‘Spencer McNaughton’ who went to Turkye to receive a hair transplant.

It is known that this reporter decided to get a hair transplant when his friend Bennett, who was a ‘hair loss comrade’ until a year ago, showed up with a lot of hair in August 2022.

He took the hair loss drugs ‘topical minoxidil (Rogaine)’ and ‘oral finasteride (Propecia)’ approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and also took the oral version of the blood pressure drug minoxidil, which is known to suppress hair loss. He said it was of no use.

After listening to reviews from friends and people around him, McNaughton took a 10-hour flight to Turkye Istanbul. He went to see Dr. Serkan Aygin, who was his friend’s hair loss doctor.

He decided to transplant 4,000 hairs, 3,400 from the back of his head and 600 from his beard. When one is transplanted, two or three strands grow in its place, and it is said that 8,300 new strands of hair will grow between six months and one year after surgery.

The price of a hair transplant is $3,500 (approximately 4.78 million won) and includes consultation, surgery, follow-up care, three nights at a 4-star hotel, and transportation from the airport to the hotel. The total cost of the transplant is about 7.51 million won, with a flight from New York costing $2,000 (about 2.73 million won).

It is known that hair transplantation in the United States costs approximately 13.68 million won to 27.36 million won. In fact, hair transplantation is performed at one-third the price.

The reason hair transplantation is cheap in Turkye is because local prices are low, and the local government’s provision of tax breaks and subsidies to hospitals and clinics to medical professionals in 2019 to promote medical tourism was a decisive factor.

According to the Türkiye Health Tourism Association, approximately 1 million people visited Türkiye for hair transplant in 2022. The cost of hair transplants they spend annually is estimated to be about $2 billion (about 2.737 trillion won).

Among medical tourism, the hair transplant industry is the most developed, earning it the nickname ‘Hair Stanbul.’ Experts predicted that the hair transplant business will expand to $11 billion (about KRW 15 trillion) by the end of 2024.

According to his experience, hair transplantation is carried out in the order of classifying healthy hair through blood tests and 3D scanning, and designing a new hairline. He said the surgery took eight hours and was not easy because he was not given general anesthesia.

After surgery, there are many things to keep in mind, such as no sex or drinking for 5 days, no aerobic exercise for 2 weeks, no strength training for 3 weeks, and no sauna for 2 months. It was said that the procedure had to be done twice in total as once was not perfect.

Four months after the surgery, he said he was satisfied with the hair transplant results. “It will take 6-7 months for real results to appear and about a year for final results, but I now feel more confident in face-to-face business meetings,” he said. “More than anything, I am proud of the fact that I can control the factors that shattered my self-esteem. “He added.

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