For Chris Allen of the day has begun, that he removed the bandages around his head and the freshly operated Bald rubbed with a special ointment. Then he sat down in the cab and drove to the small clinic Istanbul Hair Center in fine residential area Esentepe. Now sits the 31-year-old Englishman on the patient chair and grins. "It never hurts," said Chris Allen, "it just feels like a sunburn."
Then he calls a helper in a green coat, the precaution followed the English patient to an oxygen machine before eincremt his head with a gel. Still it does not look as if this ready all pain. "I'm totally fine," he says. The 31-year-old instructor for oil refinery workers has flown from its place of use in Saudi Arabia to Istanbul to do something against his increasing baldness. ". My father and grandfather have lost their hair very early" His self-confidence had indeed suffered not really under the clear-cutting, he says, "but if you have the chance to change it - why not?" In addition, had his girlfriend to intervention desired. "She likes long hair, and I like to have the idea that long hair."
Two months ago, Allen began to gather information on the internet about hairtransplants. "It was shocking how expensive the treatment in England. There I would have paid 24 000 pounds. "Around 30 000 €. And how much the procedure in Istanbul cost him? "Entire 2200 Euro, hotel, treatment and airport transfer included. An unbeatable price. "Notice Search took Allen out that Istanbul is the Mecca of hair transplant doctors is. Then he discovered the clinic and took a month ago on contact. He emailed three photos of his head, with which the Clinic calculated the operation and sent him pictures of the probable result. The young man decided to risk the adventure. "No one in my family knew about it, only my girlfriend," he says.
Chris Allen is among a growing number of foreigners who travel to Istanbul to undergo cosmetic surgery there. Conveniently located at the intersection between Europe and the Middle East, the clinics are proud that they can offer the same or better quality at a fraction of the price than in Europe or the US. "Around 300 000. Medical tourists come every year in our country," said Meral Tala, the 34-year-old managing director of the Istanbul Hair Center, in her office. "There is a rapidly growing market with two billion dollars in sales. And hair transplants are an important branch. "
The lively little woman in jeans and sneakers reported that its 60 employees last year supplied 3600 customers, this year they expect 4200. Most came from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, followed by German Turks and Germans, Italians and French , "The most important beauty feature of men is her hair," said Meral Tala the boom. "If they lose it, they become depressed. If the transplant well done, the man looks at least ten years younger then. "
Istanbul had a reputation as the world's leading city for hair transplants worked hard, says the businesswoman. "It is especially crafts, and no one has more experience in it as we Turks." It confirms that there are also black sheep, who worked for dumping prices and abwürben other institutes customers at the airport.
Yet Meral Tala and her older sister Emine Sayki can take credit that they have learned the business from the bottom up. Both are registered nurses who worked initially in a clinic for cosmetic surgery until they independently set out together with her younger brother Yüksel 15 years ago. "Hair transplants were then something totally new. At first we had mainly to do with the Turks, who lived abroad. "But especially in the last three years the number of customers had literally exploded. "The success rate of surgery has increased dramatically. Turks and foreigners who tried our method were enthusiastic. This was our best reference. "In the meantime are politicians, actors, TV presenters, footballers among patients. "But we do not reveal who."
It was pure business instinct that the sisters as a first set seven years ago on a new technique in hair multiplication called Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), which is now standard in Istanbul. Here are root tufts that contain four or five hairs removed with a tiny hollow needle from the hair ring range in mind and used elsewhere. The big advantage is that the extraction point must not be sewn, it closes on the same day. Since the mind is the most perfused region of the scalp, many men keep there despite a bald nor hair.
Höwedes had fulfilled a wish after winning the World Cup: "I had the misfortune to me a lot of hair has been lost in the last six months that was a reason for me to act.." The result is visible only in twelve to 14 months, says the chief doctor of the private clinic "Pearl of Aesthetic" in the Breidenbacher Hof.
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