This section has been prepared in particular as a guide for our patients who will come from abroad. Below you will find enough information about where to start and what to do when you want to visit our clinic for an operation.

Please do not hesitate to write to us for any information that you cannot find the answer to on this page.

Our suggestions:

First of all, please read the information and watch the videos provided on this site. You will find the sufficient information here.

Then please fill out the inspection form (.doc), the inspection form (.odt) and send it to us by e-mail. Our e-mail address: oytunmd@gmail.com (please do not forget to include a clear photo of your legs taken from the front)

We communicate with our patients via e-mail (oytunmd@gmail.com) and whatsapp (+90 533 5690649). For your convenience, please send the inspection form via e-mail.

When submitting the examination form, we suggest you to attach a photo of your legs taken from the front (standing straight up clearly exhibiting the region from the knee to the foot) in order to allow us to evaluate your physical condition.

If you do not have a medical or physical drawback that will preclude the surgery, we can schedule your date of travel to İstanbul and the date of the surgery.

For technical reasons, we cannot accept the surgery of HIV (+) patients. You should keep this in mind.Please keep this in mind so as not to encounter such an unpleasant event as the last-minute cancellation of the operation.

We are also unable to accept patients with psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder for surgery.

We will probably be able to decide on the type of the implant that we will use during our correspondence (after examining the photos of your legs). Afterwards you will be notified about the operation fee. We will inform you about the account number where you will transfer the surgery fee together with all the information required for the money transfer. For your convenience, we suggest you to transfer the surgery fee in advance.

I recommend you to book your flight tickets and hotel accommodation in advance. The surgery fee covers only surgery, hospital costs, implant costs and transfers.

I recommend you to book your stay in a hotel near Mecidiyeköy, Nişantaşı, Osmanbey region to be close to our clinic and the hospital where we shall perform the surgery. You can use the following links to book a hotel:

www.agoda.com

www.trivago.com

www.tripadvisor.com

www.trip.com

www.hotels.com

After booking your hotel and flight tickets, you should submit us your date and time of arrival, flight number and your the persons accompanying you. Thus, we will pick you up from the airport and arrange your transfer to your hotel. We will also inform you of the name and the phone number of the driver who will meet you.

We examine our patients in our clinic between 13:00 and 17:00 (we usually allocate the morning hours to our surgeries). In case you arrive to İstanbul in the evening, our driver will transfer you to your hotel and we will have you physically examined the next day between 13:00 and 17:00. In case you don't want to stay long, we recommend you to book your flight tickets to İstanbul so as to land in the morning. So we can have you physically examined on the day of your arrival to İstanbul and the next day morning we can perform your surgery.

You will be required to sign the consent (consent and disclosure) forms for the operation, following your physical examination at the clinic.

The day of your arrival you will be allowed to visit İstanbul after the physical examination, however we recommend you not to get exhausted. You are not allowed to take alcohol before the surgery. You should go to bed early at night and get a good night's sleep.

Our patients should stay hungry after midnight, the night before the operation. You should not eat and drink anything, including water, after midnight.

We will pick you up from your hotel on the morning of the operation and arrange your transfer to the hospital.

We schedule our surgeries early in the morning.

Our driver will pick you up from your hotel around 07:00 in the morning and bring you to the hospital. Your admission procedures and your blood tests required for the operation are finalized. We also check your Covid-19 antibodies herein.

Me, my nurse and the anesthesia team will arrive at the hospital around 08:45-09:00. We will visit you for the last time in your room and check your test results. Then we can proceed with the surgery.

The operation is performed with the patient under general anesthesia. The operation is completed within a period of up to 1 hour.

The patient who is taken to the operating room at about 09:00 will be back in the room at about 11:00.

We'll hospitalize you the night you have your surgery. The purpose of this is to administer strong analgesics in the hospital and ensure that you spend the first night comfortably. You will be discharged the next morning of the operation. On the first day, you will be discharged on foot by walking with short steps. Walking videos of different patients are available on the Videos page. We recommend you to rest at the hotel for the post-operative first 3 days.You should stand up only when you need to go to the toilet.

We suggest you to bring wide and platform-soled, high-heeled shoes with you. Majority of the patients reported that they walked more comfortably with such shoes after the surgery.

Please rest in bed at the hotel for the post operative first 3 days before your follow-up. Throughout this time, you are advised to place a small pillow under your knees and keep your legs bent at the knees.

For this surgery, you will need to stay in İstanbul for 8-10 days. We call our patients to post-operative follow-up on the third and sixth days following the surgery. The bandages on your legs are removed at your first follow-up on the post-operative third day. Your gait will improve gradually after the bandages on your legs are removed.

After we remove your bandages, we will apply a wound-covering spray on the suture line behind the knee. So you will be able to take a shower that night without the incision/suture line being affected by water.

3 days after your first follow-up on the Post-Operative 3. Day (6 days after the surgery) we will welcome you at our clinic for a second follow-up. Probably, your gait will be quite improved.

We usually allow our patients to fly home after 1-2 days following the second follow-up. For your return trip, we will submit you a signed stamped medical report stating that it is okay for you to travel by plane. Thus, there will be no obstacles for your flight. You will have no problem to travel by plane 1 week after the operation, you will be able to return home with peace of mind.

On your return trip, our driver will pick you up from your hotel and drop you at the airport again.

Please keep in mind that implants placed in the leg with this operation will gradually augment the leg for a certain period of time. You will see the final result of the surgery only after 6 months.

We maintain our communication with patients who have returned to their country. You can contact us by e-mail and whatsapp at any time. Phone number +90 533 5690649 is Dr. Oytun İdil’s personal mobile phone and he does not hesitate to communicate with his patients via whatsapp.

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Op. Dr. Oytun İdil

(Plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery specialist)

• Whatsapp: +90 533 569 0649    +90 553 985 8087
• E-mail: oytunmd@gmail.com
• Op. Dr. Oytun İdil: +90 533 569 0649
           +90 505 296 5569
• Asistant: +90 553 985 8087
• Office line: +90 212 296 3656
           +90 505 137 1393
• Address: Halaskargazi mah. Rumeli cad. No:3 D:1
  Nişantaşı, şişli - Istanbul / Türkiye