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Guides, comparisons and honest answers about treatment in Istanbul — written by the clinicians who do the work.

Dental

Braces or veneers? Moving teeth versus covering them

Aligners take a year and remove nothing; veneers take a week and remove enamel for good — the crowding measured in millimetres decides which one is honest.

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Dental

Bad breath: six causes and how to find out which is yours

Most bad breath is produced by bacteria on the back of the tongue rather than in the stomach, and the mouthwash you rely on is often why it keeps returning.

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Will your dental insurance pay for treatment in Turkey?

Turkey sits outside the EU, so the cross-border care rules do not apply — yet private and supplementary dental policies often reimburse anyway, on paper terms.

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Your child's first dental visit: age one, not age six

The recommendation is the first birthday, or six months after the first tooth appears — and that first appointment is mostly a conversation with the parent.

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Hair

What a sapphire blade actually changes in an FUE transplant

The sapphire tip opens cleaner channels and shortens the crusting phase by two or three days. It does not grow more hair, and it should not cost €500 extra.

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Hair

Graft maths: how we calculate your number, with three cases

Area in square centimetres times density per square centimetre, then checked against what your donor can safely give. Three real plans with the numbers shown.

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Hair

Gym, running and swimming after a hair transplant: a timeline

Walking from day three, light cardio at day ten, weights in week three, pool and sea at four weeks, hammam at six. Here is the reasoning behind each date.

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Hair

Designing a female hairline: why the male template fails

A rounder shape, temples that close forward instead of receding, and hair implanted almost flat. Get the angle wrong and no amount of styling will hide it.

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Hair

Hats, helmets and hoods after a hair transplant: the rules

A loose cap from day five, lowered vertically and never dragged. Motorcycle helmets wait four weeks, and the sun is the real reason you want a hat at all.

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Hair

Summer or winter? Choosing a season for your hair transplant

No month is medically wrong, but the thirty days afterwards differ a lot. August in Istanbul means an indoor recovery; October means eighty percent by June.

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Hair

Medications that cause hair loss — and what to do about it

Diffuse shedding two to four months after a new prescription is rarely genetic. It usually reverses on its own, which is exactly why we will not operate on it.

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Hair

Beard and scalp in one session: when it works, when it fails

Both procedures draw grafts from the same donor bank. Under 4,000 grafts and a dense donor make one day realistic; beyond that, splitting protects the result.

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