Adam Hurley
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Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
I am Adam Hurley. I've been a grooming journalist for about 13 years. I cover the men's beauty industry. I write about all things that might be cosmetics. They could be procedures, topicals, things like hair transplant. It's a big umbrella, but I try to cover it all as a generalist. The cost of a hair transplant is extremely expensive. Your insurance is not going to cover this.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
And if you go to a place like Istanbul, you know, it has the reputation of being a hair mill. But that's to its benefit, too.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
If you go to the place where they are just pumping out hair transplants over and over and over and the technology has gotten so good, your hair transplant doesn't need to cost as much. Let's say you're going to do the average hair transplant. That in Istanbul might cost you somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
But in the US, depending on the zip code, could cost you anywhere between $20,000 and $50,000 or upwards of that. And to be honest, I just have a really hard time recommending anyone spend that much money on something when there is a much more affordable option in a city that has so many world-class doctors.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
You would have them picking you up at the airport. They would be shuttling you to and from your hotel to the clinic. You would have a really clear itinerary. you should feel like you are in great hands all the way through being looked after. And typically that will include hotel. And so you're looking at the hospitality, the transportation, and the care, as well as the procedure itself.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
Okay, so you don't necessarily have to buzz your hair. If you're fine buzzing your hair and you're not being secretive about your hair transplant, I would encourage you to do so. It makes it a lot more rewarding, I think, to see the entire process go through. So they will, let's say they're buzzing you down, And then what they're going to do is they're going to anesthetize you.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
And you can choose different versions of that, but they're really not going to fully put you under so that you can sort of come to if need be. And what they're going to do is they're going to extract follicles uniformly from the back of your head, whereas they typically used to take a strip of skin from the back and that would leave a scar. Now they're taking it more uniformly.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
It's going to heal up. And they've got little pens that make clean incisions. They can plant it at the optimal angle. And then each graft can grow naturally as it would a normal hair. And about 90% of these will survive, assuming you do all the proper protocol in the month following as the scalp is recovering.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
It is bloody. It has been bandaged up because they've got a big diaper-type thing over the back and sides of your head where they took all the grafts from. And then you are really bloody up top. And then you're going to scab over. Mine almost turned into this uniform... scab helmet over the next few days. Wow, uniform scab helmet. Yeah, and it takes about 10 to 15 days to slowly loosen itself.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
Are there a lot of dudes walking around Turkey with uniform scab helmets? Yeah, but it takes a few days for the scab helmet to form. I mean, the pictures you see on social media, the Turkish hairline strokes, that's accurate.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
And one thing I have to say is that's a really encouraging thing to see if you are going there because you're not going to feel weird. No one's going to look at you weird in the airport, on your flight home. And you see guys with fresh hair transplants Like, just, you know, staring at the Galata Tower in Istanbul and just out having dinner.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
Personally, I would just order dinner and stay in the hotel room to each their own. But it is a very surreal and weird thing, but it's reassuring when you're in such a vulnerable state.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
to see so many other people doing it and even the hotels a lot of times they have partnerships with these clinics so it's this weird sad but also shared feeling when you look around the hotel brunch and it's all people who either had a hair transplant the previous day or who are about to go have a hair transplant in an hour there's this really nice camaraderie that's there of all these people from all different countries around the world because like what because balding is something
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
I don't think it's that balding is something we should be ashamed of.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
Yeah, I agree with you there. I think it's a sign of virility or vitality or something. Youthfulness, sure. I also just think if you have the option of having hair, you can always shave it off and rock a bald look. But if you are bald, that's a period. There's punctuation on the amount of things you can have.
Today, Explained
Turkey with the good hair
And that was a big reason I wanted a hair transplant in the first place is I'm a grooming editor. I have to have a canvas to try products. I've grown my hair to my shoulders twice since my hair transplant just so I can try blow dryers and hair creams and all these different things. And if I lost that, then... I do lose my virility as a grooming editor, you know?