Sule Hair Transplant Review
Hakan Hanimoglu’s Sule Clinic Comprehensive Review Based On Patient Testimonies
Sule Hair Transplant Clinic Score
Pricing
Pre-Surgery, Consultation and Booking
Facilities and Accommodation
Physicians and Staff
Surgery Methods and Doctor Involvement
Post-Surgery, Instructions and Aftercare
Online Reviews
Before and After Photos
Pricing: 1/5
Transparent pricing is available.
Detailed all inclusive packages are listed.
Aftercare medications, and shampoos are included in the price.
A fixed price for a single surgical session.
The premium package is affordable (Price < 3000€)
Sule Hair Transplant’s first impressions leave us with more questions than the answer they give.
We come to the clinic for answers about their pricing system, packages, and price per graft system. However, they provided us with no transparency whatsoever regarding the expense of their service. Ultimately, along with the customer comments online, this made us question whether the clinic offers different hair transplant prices to different customers.
After searching through online reviews across countless platforms, here is the estimated price range of Sule Hair Transplant Clinic:
| (Any method) 2000 grafts |
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| 1800€ – 2000€ |
Details of their packages are not provided. Patients who wish to know more about their service in-depth must complete their consultation process. And many of the services that should be essential are extra. We only know that they offer these in all packages:
- An aftercare kit containing pain medication and shampoo
- Translator
Travel costs to Turkey, airport transfers, and accommodation are not included in all-inclusive packages. Patients must purchase all of them individually on their own unless they wish to pay extra for their all-inclusive package.
The price they provide is much lower than most clinics in Turkey; however, this is susceptible to change based on the condition of the patient’s scalp. Let us remind you that most Turkish hair transplant clinics follow a fixed-price policy for maximum hair grafts.
And even then, considering that the clinic lacks many vital services that almost every other clinic provides, patients may inevitably find themselves considering the extra costly all-inclusive package, which is not within the limits of affordability.
Pre-Surgery, Consultation and Booking: 4/5
Scalp condition improved with pre-op instructions for the best result.
1-1 online consultation with the doctor is available.
Detailed hair loss and transplant report provided. (+)
English-speaking customer success and sales specialists available.
Detailed information of phases provided.
Sule Hair Transplant’s website has a very personalized and detailed contact form. It contains complex questions and specific suggestions as to how their surgery phase can go based on the photos the patient sends. After you fill out the form and provide your medical conditions, the clinic gets back to you with their analysis in no time.
When the consultation process ends positively, the clinic provides the patient with pre-op recommendations to improve scalp conditions for the best hair transplant result. This positive aspect fits our all-time policy: A hair transplant is not a 1-day job. It has a pre-surgery period starting with initial consultations and a post-surgery process affecting the survival of transplanted follicles.
Unfortunately, before arriving at the hair clinic in Istanbul, the clinic does not provide any service allowing you to meet with the doctor online. You must wait until you arrive at the clinic to meet the surgeon.
With the pictures and videos of your scalp provided in the consultation phase, the clinic returns to you with a hair transplant report and quote. This in-depth report includes your hair transplant eligibility and graft count.
The entire team of Sule Hair Transplant, from the head doctor to the customer support specialist, are very fluent in English. So, when the patients review online support, there won’t be any communication issues before, during, or after the hair restoration operation.
Lastly, according to some patient complaints online, Sule Hair Transplant Clinic asks for a deposit which is not refundable in case of cancellation.
Facilities, Services, and Accommodation 4/5
Transfers are done with a VIP van.
5- star International Hotels included.
3-night accommodation included.
Operation rooms in hospitals/clinics are top-notch.
The hotel and clinic are in the central location.
Upon arriving in Istanbul, Sule Hair Transplant’s representative welcomes you and takes you to your VIP transport. According to their website, the clinic even has a designated welcoming area for patients in each airport.
The first destination is the 5-Star International Windsor Hotel. The clinic provides three-day accommodation in this hotel. As the accommodation includes an extra day for resting, patients can get the needed spare time for the body to recover from the stress of the surgery.
The clinic has an interior design with a sign of excellence and luxury. It’s very hygienic and clean and ready for actual surgery.
Despite the critical attention to hygiene and the most advanced technologies at the site, the location can create a challenge for patients. The clinic is located in Eyupsultan, which is not an exact location. It is 46 km from the Istanbul Airport on the European Side and 57 km away from Sabiha Gokcen Airport (SAW) on the Asian Side.
Physicians and Staff: 3/5
A dermatologist or plastic surgeon is available.
An anesthesiologist for sedation is available.
The surgeon has done over 1000 hair transplants.
3 or more technicians/nurses are part of the operational team.
English-speaking physicians and staff.
The founder of Sule Hair Transplant, Dr. Hakan Hanimoglu, is an expert in the field of neurosurgery, so he is a neurosurgeon. And the leading doctor of the clinic, Dr. Sule Olmez, is an anesthesiologist. In other words, no dermatologist or plastic surgeon is available at the clinic. For such a significant surgery, we believe that having a dermatologist at the site is crucial for the survival of the transplant.
However, the clinic’s leading doctor and market face, Dr. Sule Olmez, is an expert anesthesiologist who worked with thousands of patients for over 11+ years. She personally draws the scalp of every patient before surgery and administers sedatives to relax the patient before and during the operation.
Despite having such a detailed list of information about their leading doctors, the clinic provides almost no information about the rest of the crew working on the surgery. We don’t know how many technicians or nurses are part of the crew, and we don’t know their capabilities. In fact, this part is so variable that according to patient reviews online, the clinic also has a secondary anesthesiologist, Dr. Zafer Ersin Unluer. But there is no information available on their website about him.
Although we do not know the exact credentials and the number of technicians in their crew, almost every patient deeply mentions how easy it was to keep communication alive throughout the entire process, thanks to their fluency in English.
Surgery Methods and Doctor Involvement: 1/5
A doctor performs & supervises all operations.
Bio-enhancements are used for harvested graft preservation.
Only one patient a day accepted / No simultaneous operations.
Needle-free local anesthesia and sedation are available.
Laser-assisted hairline drawing and telogen/miniaturization check.
Dr. Hakan Hanimoglu or Dr. Sule is present in every surgery for hairline drawing and supervising the surgery that the nurses and technicians mostly handle.
However, aside from the reliability of the surgeon’s involvement, Sule Hair Transplant’s most significant promise is that they have the most affordable prices for reliable, high-quality hair transplants.
This might be somewhat true regarding their pricing per graft, but the reason their prices are so low in every other aspect is that the clinic does not include many essential services in their first pricing and charges extra for them.
There are no bio-enhancements to be used during the surgery, which is even weirder and feels incomplete because they provide ATPv sprays post-surgery. Without using bio-enhancements to feed the scalp with nutrients in such a stressful surgery, it is difficult to say how successful the results will be.
The clinic also has its own anesthesia method called “Intravenous Sedation.” This is a type of sedation that involves administering medications through an IV line targeting the central nervous system to help patients relax and reduce anxiety. Although many patients online mention its affectivity once the effect takes hold, they also mention how the administration process was painful. So, this unique method is not needle-free. And even worse, they charge extra for the anesthesia too. Even such an essential part of the surgery is not included in their pricing.
The clinic does not use any laser-assisted hairline drawing for better accuracy. Instead, Dr. Sule draws the hairline with a pen using her hand.
Telogen check exists in pre-op examinations during female hair transplants, trichoscopy hair transplants, and afro hair transplants. However, the rest is absent from this service, and a miniaturization check is never done in any method.
Post-Surgery, Instructions and Aftercare: 3/5
Regular post-op doctor consultations are provided.
Re-operation guarantee or lifetime warranty available.
Online post-op instructions are easily accessible.
Post-op ATPv spray provided for increased graft survival.
Medications and shampoos are available.
On the first day after the hair transplant, donor area bandages are removed, and the first hair wash is done with a shampoo. The clinic also gives some post-care advice for the patients, such as avoiding scratching or bending.
But sadly, in the case of the clinic’s involvement in the post-surgery, that is it. They provide no regular check-ups or monitoring for the patients. And in the case of a transplant failure, the clinic does not provide any adjustments, as they do not include a guarantee or lifetime warranty in their service.
The initial post-op instructions given during the washing done at the clinic and many more can easily be found both on their website and on other social media accounts in-depth. The clinic explains at what stages patients are free to interact with their scalp week by week.
ATPv spray, shampoo, and some of the vital medications are included in their base kits, such as Antibiotics and Parol. However, patients must pay extra for medications directly supporting hair regrowth, such as Finasteride.
Online Reviews: 5/5
The clinic has over 500+ online reviews.
Negative reviews are positively handled.
Independent review website ratings 4.5+.
Video testimonials of actual patients are available.
High satisfaction rate.
| Website | Trustpilot Reviews | Google Reviews | Trustindex Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review Count | 101 | 815 | 872 |
| Review Rating | 4.8 ⭐ | 4.9 ⭐ | 4.9 ⭐ |
The clinic has thousands of online reviews from various sources, which is quite helpful for researchers. Many bad reviews are responded to by offering revisions to make right dissatisfied patients or by asking the anonymous patient’s names to identify the source of the problem.
There are also many video testimonials of different patients on the clinic’s website, Instagram account, and Youtube channel.
Overall, patients seem highly satisfied with the clinic’s excellent service and reassuring environment.
Some of the good reviews are as follows:
Some of the bad reviews are as follows:
Before and After Photos: 3/5
Before/After photos available.
Natural-looking results (especially hairline).
Graft survival over %90.
No overharvesting.
The surgery technique is indicated.
The clinic provides before/after photos of actual patients on its website, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube. There is a wide variety in their patient’s ethnicities, so researchers can easily find an example.
Graft survival rates are reasonable but not over 90%. As we already mentioned, going above 90% in the graft survival rate is tough to achieve without the support of bio-enhancements. Also, hairlines seem unnatural in some patients, which is likely because they draw the hairline without the assistance of a laser.
There are many before and after results, but they offer no information as to which technique was involved in each picture.
Here are some after-surgery results that they put on their blog:
Conclusion
Sule Hair Transplant Clinic Rating
Sule Hair Transplant’s most prominent positive site is that their prices per graft are much more affordable than almost any other clinic worldwide. However, these prices only contain the transplant grafts and nearly every other essential service that generally should be included in their packages as the base kit is charged extra, making the actual all-inclusive premium package not that affordable.
The clinic’s equipment, interior, and exterior design are very modern, hygienic, and luxurious despite being a bit challenging to look at due to the distant location of the clinic. But in this location, they provide a 5-star hotel with three nights of rest prepared in advance.
They achieve satisfying results with their patients, but the lack of any post-surgery help keeps us concerned about any other patient that might not be so lucky with the surgery alone.
Every patient at Sule Hair Transplant sees one of the leading doctors’ personal involvement. But these doctors are neither a dermatologist nor a plastic surgeon. When even the main surgeon/supervisor’s field is not focused on hair transplantation, we are left questioning the nonexistent data about the rest of the surgery crew.
Ultimately, our objective rating for the clinic is 3/5.0 according to our Price-Service-Result (PSR) framework.
Finally, we leave the following question to you to answer and decide accordingly:
Would you undergo a real surgery in a clinic where the prices and information about every service are hidden until you have signed in?
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FAQ
What is the hair transplant cost in Sule Hair Transplant?
Sule Hair Transplant has a fixed pricing system focusing only on transplanted grafts. Any other services, such as transport or post-care medications, are extra. The clinic offers €1,800 to €2,200 for surgery with any transplant method for 2000 grafts.
What does the community on Reddit think about Sule Hair Transplant?
Mostly, the Reddit community is satisfied with the results from the clinic. But almost all of them are from short-term patients who are happy with the initial results of their hairlines within the first year. So, it is a bit difficult to say what the long-term results are like.
Is Sule Hair Transplant on Instagram?
Yes, the username is @sulehairtransplant. Patients can DM for questions.
