Guides, comparisons and honest answers about treatment in Istanbul — written by the clinicians who do the work.
Most disappointment at three months resolves by twelve. The exceptions are functional problems, which should never wait.
Learn moreFour requests dominate: chest, nose, eyes and jawline. Two of them are usually better solved by a different procedure than the one requested.
Learn moreSurgery is the cheap part. The follow-up year is what separates a package from a programme.
Learn moreReflux, diabetes, BMI, eating pattern and willingness to supplement for life — those five answers point to one operation.
Learn moreBMI 35 with comorbidity or 40 without is the classic threshold — but metabolic disease lowers it, and guidelines have moved.
Learn moreRapid loss for six months, a plateau that frightens everyone, and a set of habits that decide the next decade.
Learn moreFor the right patient it is a supervised head start. For the wrong one it is €2,800 of temporary discomfort.
Learn moreSome regain is expected and normal. Significant regain almost always has a behavioural cause with a practical fix.
Learn moreThe staple line needs four weeks to heal. Rushing to solid food is the one mistake with a serious complication attached.
Learn moreMany patients leave hospital on less medication than they arrived with — before losing significant weight. That is hormonal, not caloric.
Learn moreCreams do nothing. Protein and training help a little. After a certain point only surgery removes it — and timing matters.
Learn moreLeak, bleeding, clot and stricture are the four that matter. Here is how likely each is and how they are prevented.
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