Istanbul HT story (Tayfun Oguzoglu)

[Paget]

Gethair supplied me the doctor had no clue who he was. My first two ops were in the uk.
As iahrs

http://www.iahrs.org/member/

This is the website and he is not on it.
I have paid deposit
But with such a life changing op I want no dealts.
Which I have at present.
So I'm not sure what to do
Dr reddy in London is who I'm looking at now. But I still have time

Hi if you go on to his own website you will see he advertises 5 qualifications one of these shows IAHRS Certificate.
Sorry what do you mean by I want no dealts

[Makepeace]

Hi

Gethair supplied me the doctor had no clue who he was. My first two ops were in the uk.
As iahrs

http://www.iahrs.org/member/

This is the website and he is not on it.
I have paid deposit
But with such a life changing op I want no dealts.
Which I have at present.
So I'm not sure what to do
Dr reddy in London is who I'm looking at now. But I still have time

[Paget]

Original Decision

I received this to a post I made. Which gave me dealts. My op is December but now considering the uk again.

To directly answer your question, I've heard of Dr. Tayfun and I've seen some cases but I won't go into any details that I've read as that is something you can find on your won quite easily. The bottom line is, there are a few clinics in Turkey that are worth considering and if I were you I'd stick with only IAHRS member clinics since with that you can at least know that they have some level of accountability for their results and the way they treat their patients.

Hi Makepeace, can I ask you why you originally booked up with Dr Tayfun? What made you make a booking with him ahead of the other surgeons available ? His website states he is IAHRS member so again I dont understand the message above which says stick with only IAHRS member... his website states he is. What will you make your decision on now? I assume you have paid some form of deposit if you have already booked up to go? Thanks fOr any updates you post.

[Makepeace]

I received this to a post I made. Which gave me dealts. My op is December but now considering the uk again.

To directly answer your question, I've heard of Dr. Tayfun and I've seen some cases but I won't go into any details that I've read as that is something you can find on your won quite easily. The bottom line is, there are a few clinics in Turkey that are worth considering and if I were you I'd stick with only IAHRS member clinics since with that you can at least know that they have some level of accountability for their results and the way they treat their patients.

[Paget]

Getting Confused about Surgeon to use

I was also waiting for a reply but spoke to a few people on here. And was advised not to use this surgeon. But to use a recognised surgeon. But it has gave me enough delays to change to a registered uk surgeon. Funny I went through gethair. And my deposit is paid. So I could still go ahead in theory. And they put me on to this site. But I can't find anything bad really on surgeon just to use a registered surgeon. So that's my plan in the uk as had two surgerys already there.

Hi Makepeace thanks for your posting, i am now getting confused about which surgeon to go to for FUE procedure. Dr Tayfun Oguzoglu has the five hair restoration recognised qualifications as per the website Gethair based in London UK and works out of a JCI Registered Hospital in Turkey. All the forums talk of only go to a surgeon with the recognised qualifcations which he has?. I am also confused why the original post did not give any detail on their experience apart from a costing issue. There was no message about the procedure or what the result was. So you can see why I am confused. Can you or anyone else advise here thank you.
So as you can see

[Makepeace]

Hi

I was also waiting for a reply but spoke to a few people on here. And was advised not to use this surgeon. But to use a recognised surgeon. But it has gave me enough delays to change to a registered uk surgeon. Funny I went through gethair. And my deposit is paid. So I could still go ahead in theory. And they put me on to this site. But I can't find anything bad really on surgeon just to use a registered surgeon. So that's my plan in the uk as had two surgerys already there.

[Paget]

Hi anonymus 33
Where is the rest of the story..?
It ends without any information on the procedure.
Have i missed it somewhere..please advise..many thanks

[Makepeace]

I'm glad I have seen this I have had two fut surgerys. And in December I was going for my final fue transplant. Was looking at London but the cost of turkey seemed to good. I also contacted gethair and they put me through to Dr. Tayfun Oguzoglu £2800 for 2800. I googled all I could fined about gethair and all came good. Now I think I should cancel after reading this

[CaliD]

Hi am718.
Thanks for you comment. I'm glad u feel positive about your procedure. I'm sure a fut job must be quite a procedure and recovery a little painful even. With dr feller you were in best hands though.
I've gotta be honest, 6 months post op I'm feeling I have been negatively affected by transplant. I regret not doing adequate research before I made a decision to have wrk done by tayfun. I'll post some pics soon.

anonymous33, can you follow up? What happened since your last post? Several months have past since your last post so I'm curious what happened. Thanks.

[anonymous33]

Hi am718.
Thanks for you comment. I'm glad u feel positive about your procedure. I'm sure a fut job must be quite a procedure and recovery a little painful even. With dr feller you were in best hands though.
I've gotta be honest, 6 months post op I'm feeling I have been negatively affected by transplant. I regret not doing adequate research before I made a decision to have wrk done by tayfun. I'll post some pics soon.

[Am718]

Interesting reading your story. I just had my hair transplant surgery with Dr. Feller last Tuesday August 19, 2014 today is my 7th day after the surgery. Post the swelling stage feeling stiffness in the back of my head. I am happy and satisfied waiting to get the surgical staples removed!!
I hope you are doing well!!

[anonymous33]

Hi all

I'm glad to be part of this online community. Thanks all for sharing your stories, you've inspired me to also contribute here.

In all honesty, I wish I had found this website before I rushed off and did my first HT in March this year. Now 5 months post op I know much more about hair transplants then I did before.

No doubt, like so many others before me, I had been naïve and rushed into doing the HT procedure without doing adequate research and without contemplating what the whole experience entails.

If you are thinking about having a transplant, do adequate research and rather pay a bit more and go with a real specialist such as Dr Feller, Hasson & Wong or Feriduni in Belgium, just to name a few. I wish I had done!!

Instead I had a bargain £2200 FUE transplant that has left me quite worried, and has so far been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least. 5 months since the procedure I am able to find some acceptance and can and have to take responsibility for the decision I made, stupid as it was.

I am already thinking of having a corrective procedure, probably with Feriduni some time next year.

Anyway.. To tell you a bit about my HT journey so far. I am 34yrs old, a German bloke who has lived in London most of his life.

I noticed a receding hairline around age 30-then rapid hair loss between ages 32-33yrs. After reading about FUE transplants in the mainstream media with high profile cases such as Rooney, Ramsey and Costner, I decided to look into options to have treatment myself.

I identified Turkey, Istanbul to be a place where good HTs are being done at a reasonably affordable rate.

After doing some research I identified a UK based provider with a referral agent based in London who at the time advertised to be working with Dr Erkan Demirsoy. Demirsoy's work looked promising and I contacted the referral agent from gethair.co.uk saying that I am interested to have a consultation.

I met the guy a few weeks later for a meeting and he seemed nice enough, caring, not pushy and the set up gave a professional and a genuine appearance.

The agent explained that they were not working with Demirsoy any more but instead with an equally (and in his words) 'much more skilled surgeon' called Tayfun Ogozuglu. The agent was very friendly and seemed genuinely caring, I really trusted they guy and took his word for it.

Weeks and even a couple of months passed and no pushy e-mails or phone calls, which I thought was a good sign that the outfit wasn't a money making racket but a genuine established Hair Transplant company.

Admittedly doing very little further research, I decided to go ahead, take the plunch and book a Fue hair transplant procedure to be done on 10th March 2014 in Istanbul with the above mentioned organisation.

I had taken 2 weeks off work and was excited about the prospect of visiting beautiful city and spend 2 weeks there after having transplant done in the first 2 days of my stay.

£2200 for hotel, fue procedure 3200 grafts (****ing bastards- I learnt only in hindsight that this was way too much for my level of balding)

The air port pick up was great, hotel fancy and comfy. Met the surgeon on the day of my arrival, seemed professional in a modern hospital and any doubts I might have had were certainly non existent at this point. I decided to go ahead with the procedure the following day.

Will continue story asap.. Photos of my journey so far will be posted also..

Feel free to feedback, I am particularly interested to hear from others who have had experiences with and the md Tayfun Oguzoglu..

Many thanks,
anonymous33