A billion-dollar business
The Turkish mass business with balding men
More and more men who are suffering from hair loss and want surgical help are flying to Turkey for a hair transplant. The clinics there have long been doing a billion-dollar business. But is it safe? Krone+ asked experts - and asked an Austrian to tell us!
The economic situation in Turkey can certainly be described as tense - so it's understandable that the country is trying harder than ever to attract foreign tourists who fly in especially for medical treatment. There are already five times as many as five years ago. Turkey advertises European standards at low prices.
Most customers come for rhinoplasty, fertility treatments or gastric banding. Turkish Airlines now even offers a 50 percent discount on flights for those who can prove they have had such a procedure. And if you stroll through the tourist areas in Istanbul, you immediately notice the large number of men with bandages on their heads, some of them wearing a kind of sweatband. They have all come to Turkey for a hair transplant, which has now become the world's leading provider of such procedures.
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