Turkey offers plastic surgery for tourists, However, plastic surgery is offered transplantation mustache and beard.

Turkey offers plastic surgery for tourists, However, plastic surgery is offered transplantation mustache and beard.




If South Korea is famous for medical tourism that offers plastic surgery for tourists, Turkey appear with similar products. However, plastic surgery is offered transplantation mustache and beard.

Yes, recently, transplant tourism makes the plastic surgeon and travel agency in Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, is so busy serving requests "mounting" a mustache and beard.

Turkish health tourism on the rise as more and more hair affair. Transplantation mustache and beard have long offered to people who want facial hair, and is increasingly popular.

Tulunay, a doctor, said that the implant mustache and beard increasingly popular since two years ago. Sebanyan 10 to 15 people a month asking for facial hair transplant, most come from countries in the Middle East.

"Both in Turkey and the Arab countries, the hair on the face associated with masculinity. Lack of hair on the face can cause distress in social relationships," said Tulunay.

He said the businessmen to come to his place to get implants mustache and beard. They said the business partners do not take it seriously because they do not have facial hair.

"The hair is thick is a status symbol and a sign of strength and virility," says Ali Mezdegi, a plastic surgeon who has been running the business for 10 years.

He said 75 percent of customers come from Arab countries. While Irfan Atik, general manager of a travel agency perrjalanan who specializes in hair transplants tour package, estimates that about 50 Arab tourists coming to Istanbul every day to perform the operation.

The majority of customers are from United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq. However, Irfan hopes to expand its business to the countries in Europe including the UK.

Turkish tourism is growing rapidly. Foreign tourists who come to this country dominated by Arab tourists with around four million tourists came from Arab countries in 2011, rising rapidly compared to 700 thousand Arab tourists in 2001.