I am writing a review on my experience with Diamond Hair Clinic. I planned a FUE/diamond sapphire blade hair transplant in September of 2020. First of all I wanted to mention my experience with booking. Diamond Hair Clinic’s staff was very understanding and very professional in the booking process. I originally was supposed to have my appointment in March of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to reschedule. So, I managed to reschedule my appointment to August in which the day that my flight was going to depart, my flight got canceled. I felt really bad and determined, but Diamond Hair Clinic, understood my situation, and allowed me to rebook my appointment to September 9, 2020. When I arrived in Turkey, I was picked up from the Istanbul Airport and was contacted by one of Emir’s drivers. I had very detailed instructions on where to meet and I made it to the Limo van with ease. The ride was very smooth and pleasant. I was accompanied by my wife, which was great support. We then arrived at the Elite World Istanbul hotel, which was a very nice place to stay. The staff was amazing. Even though their English was very limited, they had patience to try to understand what we were needing. I am not going to go to much into detail about the hotel because this is a review for Diamond Hair Clinic. The next morning, I was picked up by another one of Emir’s drivers where I was escorted to the hospital to have my hair transplant performed. I was really excited and nervous! I was deciding to finally take a leap of faith and cut my hair that I have been growing for the past 15 years in dreadlocks!! When I got to the clinic, I was greeted by Dr. Mehmet Dermicioglu and his 2 assistants with a smile and comforting welcoming. I was then taken to a room where they took my blood to test and shave my hair. Ugh! I was feeling at the moment, loosing my hair, but I was ready for a change! Afterwards I went back to Dr. Mehmet Dermircioglu's office where he explained the procedure and measured my hair for a precise hairline. I told him exactly what I was looking for. He definitely had patients because I believe there was some miscommunication on my end of how I wanted my hairline. When he drew my first line, I did not like it, so he showed me examples on his phone, in which I agreed with one exactly what I was looking for. Dr. Mehmet then again patiently measured and redrew my line. It was perfect!! I was excited to finally see what it would look like from that point. Before the procedure, Dr. Mehmet then asked for the payment, where I had brought only a credit card, because I did not like to walk around with cash, and I thought it was accepted. In which they were, but the machine would have taken an additional 20% commission from the transaction. Dr. Mehmet did something that shows great character. He did not want me to pay any extra commissions with the credit card. After trying multiple ways of trying to get cash sent from my American accounts, we kept failing due to the weekend. Dr. Mehmet then trusted me that I will wire him the payment once I returned to the States. I could not believe how trustworthy and compassionate he was, as he did not know me at all. But he had trust in me (by the way - I sent the payment immediately). OK, now on to the procedure. I was brought into the operation room where I was given the local anesthesia, and man... was that a painful experience for about 10 minutes. But once the anesthesia kicked in, I rarely felt any pain. Dr. Mehmet’s assistance were great at asking if I was ok and if I was in any pain. The two assistance then pulled 5000 grafts from the back of my head and 1000 grafts from the bottom of my beard totaling 6000 grafts to implant. This was great because in my original consultation, I was quoted to have 5500 grafts transplanted. After that I was able to eat the lunch provided by the doctor, which I ate really well. It was a little hard to eat because of the anesthesia under my beard, but it was not that bad. After I ate, I was then taken back to the surgery room where Dr. Mehmet opened up my recipient channels with the Diamond Sapphire Blade. There was hardly any pain, just more so a little of discomfort from the surgeon bed that I laid on. When Dr. Mehmet was done opening my channels, his assistants returned to implant the grafts. It was a LONG DAY, due to some delays and minor occurrences. Dr. Mehmet stayed the whole time throughout the whole surgery, even when his team was performing the implants. My procedure ended up taking 20 hours, and everyone was exhausted. Dr. Mehmet and his team was very professional and worked very hard to make sure that that I had as much coverage as possible. For the most part there was no pain, except for when the anesthesia started to wear off. When I was done, roughly around 4:00am, the team had implanted 500 grafts on each of my temples totaling 1000 grafts, 2500 grafts in my frontal area, 1000 grafts in my mid area, and 1500 grafts in my crown area. Dr. Mehmet then gave me his personal number, medication, Greft Plus hair kit which included vitamins, shampoo, and soothing cream for donar area. He messaged me with detailed instruction on what to use and when. The next day, I rested at the hotel for the whole day, and was shocked that I did not have any sort of pain still. I admired the work that was performed. The final day, I went back to the clinic where Dr. Mehmet had given me my first wash with the foam shampoo, that was also provided. From there he gave me more instructions and answered any questions that I had from that point. I was then escorted back to the airport by Emir himself, which gave tremendous service throughout my whole trip. I am currently one month into my hair transplant and communicating with Dr. Mehmet weekly. Everything seems to be on track. I cannot speak on the final results as I am still early in the the transplant stage, but I can say that I enjoyed my overall experience, and would definitely recommend Diamond Hair Clinic.