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Istanbul & travel

Istanbul for your companion: the hours while you are in surgery

A hair transplant is six to eight hours. Here is what your companion can reach from Sisli, and the three jobs that make them genuinely useful.

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Istanbul & travel

Istanbul with reduced mobility: an honest accessibility report

Cobbles, missing kerbs and steep side streets are real — but the metro, Marmaray and the ferries work, and here is exactly what we arrange for you.

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Istanbul & travel

Istanbul weather by season — and what healing skin needs

Thirty-four degrees in August, five in January — each season changes what your dressing, your scar and your compression garment have to cope with.

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Istanbul & travel

SIM cards, wifi and paying by card in Istanbul: a setup guide

A tourist SIM costs 20 to 30 euro and starts a 120-day handset clock; an eSIM costs a few euro and does not. Plus how treatment payments should look.

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The Turkish breakfast, decoded: what to eat while you heal

Twenty small plates, plenty of bread and less protein than it looks — how to eat it after dental work, and why a sleeve patient eats almost none of it.

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Beyond Istanbul: day trips worth saving for your second visit

Buyukada fits around a first trip; the thermal baths of Bursa and a Cappadocia balloon do not — the medical reasons, and the timing that actually works.

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Why the jaw shrinks after tooth loss — and what stops it

A jaw keeps only the bone it is asked to use. Most ridge width disappears in the first year after an extraction, and an implant is what stops the loss.

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Smoking and dental implants: how much does it cut success?

Smoking does not disqualify you from implants, but it roughly doubles the reported failure rate — and the damage happens in two separate windows.

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How to clean around a dental implant: tools that work

The most useful tool around an implant is not your toothbrush but a correctly sized interdental brush — and floss often misses the exact spot that matters.

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Can you get dental implants with diabetes? The HbA1c rule

Diabetes does not rule out dental implants; uncontrolled diabetes does. The number that decides is your HbA1c from the last three months, not the diagnosis.

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How long after an extraction can you place an implant?

Same day, six to eight weeks, or three to four months — all three are standard practice, and the socket walls on the scan decide which one applies to you.

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Peri-implantitis: the seven signs an implant is failing

An implant almost never fails without warning. The first sign is bleeding when you clean around it — the point where treatment is easy and nearly always works.

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