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Dr. İlker Apaydın Clinic
Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. İlker Apaydın ✓ verified
Dr. İlker Apaydın Clinic is a hair-transplant clinic verified across independent sources in Istanbul, led by Dr. İlker Apaydın (verified in an authority-body directory). This clinic does not publish its own price; the market-level estimate for the region is Market average: $0.5–$4.05/graft. Cross-checked against 3 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.
Surgeon & safety signals
What Reddit and forum users actually argue about: who does the work, and whether it's a "hair mill". We state only what's verified; the rest is honestly marked not disclosed.
Surgeon
MD; Aesthetic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery specialist (Ankara University Medical Faculty, 1992–1998); ISHRS member since 2003; dedicated exclusively to hair transplantation since 2006
Verified profile ↗ (ISHRS member directory profile (ishrs.org/doctor/49926/) — page fetched, HTTP 200)Pricing
Market average: $0.5–$4.05/graft (~$1,900–$9,200 all-in for ~2,500 grafts). Clinic-specific price not published. not confirmed on the clinic's own site · source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)
Market-level estimate for the region, not this clinic's own published price. Source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)
Contact
| Website | drilkerapaydin.com |
| Phone | +90 532 274 32 08 |
| [email protected] | |
| Google Maps | View on Maps |
| Accreditations | ISHRS member since 2003 |
Notable
One of the longest-standing ISHRS members in Turkey (since 2003). Board-certified in aesthetic plastic and reconstructive surgery at Ankara University Medical Faculty (1992–1998), and has worked exclusively in hair transplantation since 2006 — a two-decade single-specialty track record.
Sources & verification
Compiled into the 2026-08-14 dataset build. No separate re-verification date is recorded for this clinic. Placed by verification, never by payment.
Editorial note: VERIFIED BUT DELIBERATELY HELD AT TIER 2 — the credential is strong and the outcome signal is not, and both belong in the entry. ISHRS profile 49926 fetched and resolves as 'Ilker Apaydin, MD | Hair Surgeon | Istanbul, Turkey'. Site live (HTTP 200, redirects to non-www). The negative reviews here are the most diagnostically meaningful kind in this niche and are NOT omitted: Google is 4.0 on a small base of 21, and the criticism is specifically about long-term graft yield rather than service ('After 3 years after the surgery almost no result... 3500 grafts implemented on the front'; 'disappointed. Two years since the transplant'). Density complaints at 2–3 years are the point at which a transplant can actually be judged, so they carry more weight than the volume suggests. The site states he 'works with a highly experienced nursing team' and handles 'more than 1.000 patients' annually — a volume difficult to reconcile with a surgeon personally performing each case, and the site does not claim he does; no surgeon-performed claim is asserted here. No Trustpilot profile; no published price. Two different email addresses appear across his web properties ([email protected] and [email protected] on a separate domain); only the one on the primary live site is carried, the other is not published here rather than presenting an unverified alternate.