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Beard Transplant / Istanbul / Turkey

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On 12.05.2017 I had the most horrible experience...

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On 12.05.2017 I had the most horrible experience of my life at my hometown Istanbul , I got a beard tranplant of 2000 grafts at Istanbul ESTECENTER , the entire procedure as well as the outcome has turned out to be the greatest nightmare of all times. ESTECENTER plastic surgery and hair transplant center destroyed my life , the beard transplant has done by couple of 20 year old young girls not by surgens or Dr.'s. So called PS and HT centers welcomes you very very warmly, try their best to convince you about the beard transplant , tells you how easy the process and the recovery is , they tell you that you can get back to your business in 3 days and start getting shaved after 3 weeks, no one will recognize that you had a beardtransplant , tells you how quick is the recovery process and it does not leave any marks on your face. It has been 2 months after the surgery and i am still unrecognizable , lost my job , my physical and mental health , my entire life , could not operate my daily needs to my physchological state ( i am 29 years old ), i still have very visible unfaded red area on my face , 2000 holes due to incisions on my face which are very much visible , ? cannot believe here in Turkey Istanbul such places exist with so big confidence to ruin peoples lifes by offering them such procedures. Imagine this is my face and the operation has done by untrained 20 year old girls. When you first arrive to the clinic dr. welcomes you very warmly , later i found out that the mentioned dr. is not a dr. but he was the owner of the clinic, actually an entepreneur a businessman . He also operates hair tranplant at his clinic. They call the 20 year old young girls as the hair specialist which even do not have any degree. At the end of my process as you can see ( Check out my pictures below ) that the transplant areas are totally asymetrical to eachother, the transplanted hairs does not grow with correct angles , they grow more vertical rather that growing lateral which gives a very unnatural look , multiple hair roots were placed to each incision area , it is beyond imaginations i have 2-3-4 roots of hair growing in the same root as there were placed 2 by 2 , 3 by 3 or 4 by 4 to each incision hole . After realizing the fact after a few days i have contacted the place , with all seriousity they have told me that the entire procedure works out very well , it was like a joke . After realizing that lots of things are going wrong i started to make more researches about it and found out that to cut down the cost and to make it much quicker and to increase the customer turnover they hire these 20 year old girls to do the entire procedure. It was the most unbeliavable thing that i have witnessed and actually experienced in my life. They give your face, head , eyebrows to young untrained girls so called the hair transplant specialists and let them deal with it. My intention of being at this website is to warn people about getting any kind of surgery at Istanbul ESTECENTER , if you visit their websites you'll see these fancy comercials and all the ads. which works out very well to convince people. My life has been destroyed at the age of 29 and i warn all humanity to stay away from this clinic in ?stanbul. If you send me an email or any text i would be more than happy to help you as a big beard fail patient. Below you can check out the results of my surgery and i am sure you'll understand how serious i am about my warning.

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Ibrahim Cevik / Istanbul ESTECENTER

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July 17, 2017
holy. [RS bleep]
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July 17, 2017
any more pictures ? give it a full month or two...
July 19, 2017
So sorry to read this, I hope the final result within a view months will be bearable to live with. I've red it can take about 6 months before everything heals. good luck
July 19, 2017
Thank you very much , went to see a dermatologist yesterday have started to put a new cream ( hipokort ) hope things will be fine shortly , thank you again for the good wishes. Keep anyone away who thinks of getting such surgeries in such places in Turkey. The prices in Turkey are almost 1/5 th of western countries, but you already know the reason now.
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July 25, 2017
I've never seen this redness before in other reviews. Horrorstory! Wish you the best
July 27, 2017
Thank you very much , i am way much better now , the entire beard transplant with incissions is a total horror story, varies way too much between each patient, i've read almost all proclamations of different surgeons and Dr.'s from different countries almost all of them tell their patient the recovery process will take a few weeks and you can start getting shaved after 2-3 weeks. But after the patients complains after the process they say that the recovery might take 6 to 8 months and even 1 year, to convince people to get the beard transplant, first they tell you how easy the operation is but after they start telling you the bad cases after the operation i think there is some thing really really wrong about it and needs to be done . I find it totally unethical for the plastic surgeons and hair transplant centers. I've searched many different people from many different places all around the world and almost all of them are facing the same problems and totally regret it. I think sufficient information needs to be given to the patients, it should'nt be only to make profits out of patients and ruin their life. After all they have to live with it for the rest of their lifes. Regarding what i've experienced and whom i'm met i think this procedure has to be banned. Imagine people who are walking around with sculp hair on their faces promised by the surgeons that they will have the appearance of a real beard. Unbeliavable story.
July 27, 2017
Read any single reviews in any websites ( written by actual patients ) you will not going to see any positive comment about the beard transplant ( except beard to beard transplants by needles , not the sculp hair transplant by incissions to your face.
July 27, 2017
Who were the drs working there?
July 27, 2017
The name of the plastic surgery and the hair transplant center is ESTECENTER, the most unbelivable thing about it was , there were no Dr.'s who worked on the transplant, the guy named Ibrahim Cevik who was introduced to me as a Dr. by his secretary was the person who did the incissions and leave the entire work to the 20 year old girls to do it, like inserting the grafts on my face . After realizing that certain things were not going allright did a very detail research and found out that so called Dr. was a highschool graduate businessman who is the owner of the place and has been transplanting hairs for years. The most terrifying thing i have ever seen and what was worse is that i have experienced it. It has been almost 3 months and still did'nt recover from the shock and the entire process. The redness , the visible holes due to incissions and multiple root grafts which were transplanted to my face . They have super good advertisements on internet and the place looks amazing on internet as well as reality, but it is absolutely oposite from inside, still can't believe places like this exist in 21 st century. It was a total nightmare and still continues to be.
October 13, 2017
Hello sir. I hope you are recovering well from this horrifying procedure. I just wanted to know have there been any improvements since your surgery?
October 13, 2017
Hello , yes there has been improvements but it is not satisfying at all , now I'm on my 5 th month and still have redness when i shave it looks terrible , totally opposite of what the HT surgeons market as ( like the procedure does not leave visible marks , the redness fades in 2 weeks , it does not leave any scarring , etc.. ) i am seeing dermatologists to find a solution to get rid of them all but so far I couldn't be able to get accurate answers. If you ever think of this procesure i totally suggest you to stay out of it , any kind of HT surgery especially in Turkey.