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Dr. Gökay Bilgin

Co-founder·Smile Clinic

Istanbul, Türkiye

€5,790 Fixed package · Cost details

Background

Dr Gökay Bilgin is a co-founder of Smile Hair Clinic in Istanbul, Turkey 12. The clinic says he and Dr Mehmet Erdoğan founded it in 2018 2. His bio says he was born in Ereğli, Zonguldak, in 1980 and graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine 1. It lists him as a hair transplant surgeon at the clinic since 2018 and says he is its medical doctor and managing director 1. The bio says he has performed more than 5,000 hair transplant procedures 1. It lists English as his foreign language 1. Smile Hair Clinic lists five doctors in its surgical team, and he sits on its medical editorial board 23.

Procedures and techniques

His bio lists sapphire FUE, micromotor graft extraction, hairline design and personalised planning among his areas of expertise 1. The clinic offers sapphire FUE, DHI, manual FUE, unshaven and long FUE, and body, beard and eyebrow transplants 2. The clinic's package cards show who performs which steps 4. In the Diamond package, consultation, planning, hairline design and sapphire incisions are done by Dr Bilgin, Dr Erdoğan or the head doctor, Dr Firdavs Ahmedov 4. In all packages, implantation is listed as done by surgical technicians 4. The cards do not say who performs the extraction 4. The clinic says each of its doctors accepts a maximum of two patients a day 4.

Pricing

The clinic publishes fixed package prices in euros and says graft count never changes the price 4. The Diamond package, the only tier that names Dr Bilgin, costs €5,790 4. That tier may instead be performed by Dr Erdoğan or Dr Ahmedov 4. The Gold (€2,390) and Platinum (€3,290) packages are planned by two other doctors at the clinic 4. The clinic says every package includes PRP, blood tests, medication, hotel nights, VIP transfers and one year of follow-up 4. Diamond adds exosome therapy, a three-month hair care kit and three nights in a five-star hotel 4. The clinic says flights and anything unrelated to the procedure are not included 4. It does not publish a price per graft 4.

Booking and aftercare

The clinic offers a free consultation through an online form 5. It says a case manager and a surgeon review the patient's needs and prepare an evaluation report 5. All packages include a one-year care plan 4. The clinic says a patient experience specialist follows hair growth for 18 months after surgery 5. No guarantee or waiting time is published 4.

Credentials and memberships

His bio lists a hair transplant practitioner certificate and a Ministry of Health approved aesthetic and cosmetic applications certificate, among others 1. It does not list any professional society memberships 1. The clinic says it holds TEMOS accreditation, which applies to the clinic rather than to him 4.

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://www.smilehairclinic.com/en/dr-gokay-bilgin/
  2. 2. https://www.smilehairclinic.com/en/
  3. 3. https://www.smilehairclinic.com/en/medical-board/
  4. 4. https://www.smilehairclinic.com/en/hair-transplant-turkey-cost/
  5. 5. https://www.smilehairclinic.com/en/smile-gentle-care/

What patients say on reddit

15 people shared their experience with Dr. Gökay Bilgin across 23 reddit threads between 2021 and 2026. Every graft count, price and verdict is linked to the original thread.

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