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Dr. Ahmed Altan

Owner and lead physician·Aestepool Clinic

Istanbul, Türkiye

€5,990 Fixed package · Cost details

Background

Dr Ahmed Altan is the owner of Aestepool Clinic in Istanbul and its lead physician 9. The clinic sits within a private clinic in the Bakırköy district, which the site says he also owns 2. The clinic says he studied medicine in Sofia, Bulgaria, with two years at Goethe University in Frankfurt 3. It says he speaks English, Bulgarian and Turkish, and has operated on nearly 5,000 patients 3. The site is aimed largely at Polish patients, with a Polish-language twin site and a consultation point in Warsaw 4.

Procedures and techniques

The clinic says Dr Altan personally performs the most important steps 1. Its price card lists these as planning, the hairline and opening the channels, plus calculating the donor capacity and creating single-hair grafts under a microscope 5. Its team section says technicians do the extraction and implantation 1. The clinic says it performs at most two procedures a day 1. It uses Micro FUE with a 0.7 mm punch, from 0.7 to 1.2 mm depending on the graft 6. Channels are made with an adjustable surgical steel blade, which it says the doctor adjusts for each case 1. It says up to 6,500 grafts can be moved in one session 7. It asks that hair loss has been stable for at least 12 months before surgery 7.

Pricing

The English price page shows one package at EUR 5,990, "valid from 01.01.2027", with parts of the surgery done by Dr Altan 5. It covers up to 5,000 grafts, two hotel nights for the patient and a companion, transfers, an interpreter, medication and online follow-up with Dr Altan 5. The Polish price page also lists a EUR 2,990 package, valid until 31 December 2026, in which a named technician does the procedure, including the hairline and channels 4. The Polish Premium page still gives EUR 6,990 for the package with Dr Altan 8. The clinic says the price is fixed and does not change with the number of grafts harvested 9.

Booking and aftercare

Booking starts with a free online assessment from photos and a questionnaire, or an in-person consultation in Istanbul 5. The clinic says a doctor assesses the case and sends a plan with dates 5. It asks for a 15% deposit and gives 6 to 8 weeks as the average time from first contact to treatment 1. It offers support for 12 months, with contact with Dr Altan during regrowth 5. It promises a repair procedure if the 12-month result is inadequate because of a medical mistake 9. It says the guarantee is in a contract under Polish law 1.

Credentials and memberships

The clinic says Dr Altan is one of five Turkish doctors recommended by the Hair Transplant Network 10.

Sources

Facts on this page were compiled from these pages, checked October 2026. Archived copies are kept for every citation. Something wrong or out of date? Suggest a correction.

  1. 1. https://aestepool.com/
  2. 2. https://aestepool.com/about-us/clinic/
  3. 3. https://aestepool.com/about-us/dr-ahmed-altan/
  4. 4. https://aestepoolclinic.pl/cennik/
  5. 5. https://aestepool.com/price/
  6. 6. https://aestepool.com/hair-transplant/micro-fue/
  7. 7. https://aestepool.com/hair-transplant/hair-transplantation/
  8. 8. https://aestepoolclinic.pl/cennik/premium/
  9. 9. https://aestepool.com/faq/
  10. 10. https://aestepool.com/about-us/

What patients say on reddit

47 people shared their experience with Dr. Ahmed Altan across 66 reddit threads between 2022 and 2026. Every graft count, price and verdict is linked to the original thread.

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