How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry • Hacker News Board

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by randycupertino » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:22 AM UTC

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #67

Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?

Ageism is huge in the workplace. It sucks but it definitely happens. I had a young manager complaining that "his job was to teach a bunch of old bald guys with saggy balls how to use excel" - I was sitting there thinking about how I had 20 years on him but he probably didn't realize in my case because I dye my hair.

If you need your job and income, taking steps to prevent facing this bias can be beneficial.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by manmal » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:23 AM UTC

econ wrote: post #171

manmal wrote: post #96

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Dentists are usually booked well, how would that work? Is that vibe dentistry?

Their private practitioners typically earn $25,000 - $45,000 per year and public sector dentists earn roughly $10,000 - $15,000 Pretty much what a western dentist charges for a handshake. So you get endless rows of teeth flying there.

If they earn that, surely they don’t have many customers or they would earn more?

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:41 AM UTC

mikelitoris wrote: post #154

olalonde wrote: post #27

I did it a few years ago when I was living in Istanbul. One evening, a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about the procedure. I ended up booking it almost on a whim, mostly just to prove him wrong. I did the transplant the next day. In the end, I was very happy with the results. I think it cost around 1500$. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olalonde/olalonde.github.c...

Which doctor/clinic did you go to?

Hair Center Of Turkey

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:57 AM UTC

IncreasePosts wrote: post #135

gacgacgac wrote: post #115

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Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?

Is it a right of any nation to assert what other nations call it? Can America ask China to stop calling them 美国 (Měiguó) and call them the USA? The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English. I could get behind it more if they completely changed…

It's governed through the United Nations[0].

[0] https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/country

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

jnwatson wrote: post #100

gacgacgac wrote: post #95

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Yes? The country is named Türkiye, we should use that name? The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.

And Germany's official name is "Bundesrepublik Deutschland". I get to call it Germany though.

Germany's official English name is Germany[0].

[0] https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/745bbc2a-fc50-4b94-bb9...

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by anukin » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:07 AM UTC

TrackerFF wrote: post #47

As a guy that started experiencing moderate hair loss in his 20s, I spent countless hours researching the Turkish hair transplant industry. It's a case of having the right people at the right place, at the right time. Turkey have some of the leading doctors and clinics in this field, and have had for years. They were also located in a place which was close to both customers from Europe and the Middle-East, and could…

Which clinics are good based on your research? Did they survive the boom or went under?

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by olalonde » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:10 AM UTC

maxprimes wrote: post #158

olalonde wrote: post #43

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There are no pills to take afterwards, except perhaps painkillers. Some people who are balding chose to take finasteride but it's unrelated to the procedure itself.

> Some people who are balding chose to take finasteride but it's unrelated to the procedure itself. Couldn't that be the pills Wayne took?

It's possible, but finasteride doesn't cause weight gain or muscle loss. In fact, it slightly increases free testosterone due to less of it being converted to DHT. He probably just got older and became less active.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:21 AM UTC

antinomicus wrote: post #159

olalonde wrote: post #65

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No medications or follow ups required. The transplanted hair follicles are harvested from a region of the scalp (the donor area) that is genetically immune to hair loss, meaning they are permanent. However, you will continue to lose the non-transplanted native hair around them as baldness progresses. So some people choose to take finasteride and/or minoxidil to maintain their existing hair (I personally don't).

You don’t? Are you okay with what it’ll look like once you lose the hair behind your transplant? Folks who get a HT who don’t get on meds will have a weird crescent hairline and then no hair behind it. Feels like at that point just don’t get the transplant in the first place.

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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by gadders » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

triceratops wrote: post #173

gadders wrote: post #147

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Turkiye is the endonym, not the exonym.

Sure, but "turkey" is a bird, not a country. You at least have to write "Turkey" to be clear to English speakers. If you like, save Türkiye for your visits to the UN.

I agree on a capital T. Country names are proper nouns and should always be capitalised.

Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry

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Post by gadders » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 8:41 AM UTC

gruntled-worker wrote: post #166

gadders wrote: post #147

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Turkiye is the endonym, not the exonym.

Not anymore really, at least according to their preference. At a minimum, a capital T will prevent comedic errors like a head full of feathers. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/1147704945/the-state-departme...

I agree on the capital T. It's still Turkey to me.