What a graft costs in Turkey.
Around a dollar, if you divide a package by the grafts it covers. That number is useful for comparing clinics and useless for predicting your bill, and this page explains why both are true.
Package price divided by graft count.
| City | Published package | Grafts covered | Works out at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul | $2,400 | 2,500 | $0.96 per graft |
| Antalya | $2,500 | 2,500 | $1.00 per graft |
| Ankara | $2,200 | 2,500 | $0.88 per graft |
| Izmir | $2,300 | 2,500 | $0.92 per graft |
Prices are indicative; only a clinic's written quote applies to you. Turkish figures are conservative midpoints of the ranges clinics publish on their own sites, not surveyed medians, and they carry no sample size. Non-USD figures are converted at indicative rates and rounded. Sources and method: research and price sources.
The rate falls as the count rises, so it rewards overselling.
A flat package spread over more grafts produces a smaller number. A clinic that quotes you 4,000 grafts on the same package will therefore advertise a lower price per graft than one that honestly quotes 2,500, while charging you the same money and spending more of your donor area. The metric rewards the behaviour you least want.
It also hides the thing that actually varies. Between the four Turkish cities on this page the derived rate moves by about fifteen cents. Between two clinics in Istanbul, the difference in who performs the surgery is worth far more than that, and no per-graft figure captures it.
Use the rate for one job only: sanity checking a quote that looks unusually cheap. A package implying well under $0.60 a graft is worth asking hard questions about. For everything else, compare the total for your own count.
Common questions.
What is the price per graft in Turkey?
Dividing a published package by the graft count it covers gives roughly $0.85 to $1.00 per graft. No Turkish clinic actually sells at that rate, so treat it as a comparison tool only.
Why do clinics quote per graft at all?
Mostly for the counts above the standard package band, and in markets like the UK and US where per-graft billing is the norm. In Turkey the flat package is the usual form.
Does a lower price per graft mean better value?
Not on its own. It falls as the graft count rises, so a clinic quoting a large count will always show a lower rate. Compare the total for your own count instead.