Plastic Surgery in Turkey for US Patients

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) publishes an average surgeon fee for each operation. That number covers the surgeon's fee only. It excludes anaesthesia, operating room or facility fees and other related expenses, so what a patient actually pays in the US is higher than the figure. Our cost pages show the ASPS number next to the Turkish advertised range and say so each time.

A Turkish advertised package is a different kind of number again. Packages often bundle the surgeon, the anaesthetist, the hospital stay and some transfers or hotel nights into one price, though what they contain differs between providers and they are not quotes. Comparing the two directly would put a fee beside a bundle.

Nothing is converted between currencies. Treat the table as a map of what each source counts. For some operations, such as the BBL, there is no published US figure, and we do not borrow one from a clinic or an agency. The cost methodology page explains how each figure is recorded.

The CDC's Yellow Book chapter on medical tourism, last reviewed in April 2025, names abdominoplasty, breast augmentation, buttock augmentation, liposuction and rhinoplasty among the procedures commonly sought abroad, and says that complications, including infections and surgical revisions for unsatisfactory results, can add to the initial cost. Its advice for travellers includes:

• See a US clinician well before travel. Discuss the plan with your primary healthcare professional well in advance, and consider a travel medicine specialist 4 to 6 weeks before you go. Be up to date on routine vaccinations, especially hepatitis B.
• Plan for complications before you leave. Discuss with both your US clinician and the clinician abroad how complications of the treatment would be handled.
• Get your records in English. Ask for copies of your overseas medical records in English and obtain a complete set before returning home, so that any US clinician you see afterwards has them.
• Check what your insurance covers. Read your domestic health insurance plan to see what, if anything, it covers outside the United States, and consider supplemental medical insurance, including medical evacuation cover.
• Expect follow-up to cost extra. Some overseas facilities charge substantial fees for follow-up care on top of the base cost.
• Mind infection control. The most common complications are infection-related, and inadequate infection prevention and control puts patients at risk.

The CDC says air travel and surgery each raise the risk of blood clots, and that medical tourists should not fly for 10 days after chest or abdominal surgery. It adds that the ASPS recommends waiting 7 to 10 days before flying after cosmetic procedures on the face, eyelids or nose. Your surgeon decides when you may fly; a price or itinerary that assumes an early flight is worth questioning. Our guide to flying after surgery sets out the planning in more detail.

US-style checks do not transfer directly, so use the Turkish ones. The Turkish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (TSPRAS) has an online member search. In a joint statement with the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, it advised confirming Turkish board certification, at least five years' practice in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, a written aftercare plan, a surgeon whose name and contact details you know, and surgery in a fully recognised hospital. Facilities treating international patients need a health tourism authorisation, and the HealthTürkiye portal lists certified providers. A certificate covers the facility, not the individual surgeon, so the surgeon checks remain yours. See how to choose a surgeon.

Ask each provider for a written, itemised quote for the same operation, the operating surgeon's name and specialty, the hospital's name and address, the number of hospital nights, and what the price says about revision surgery and complications after you are home. Use our worksheet of questions to ask before paying and read the guide to medical tourism insurance before you decide.

Tell us the operation you are considering, your travel window and where you live, and our patient team will come back with options to compare. A request is not a booking, and your plan is only confirmed after examination by the surgeon who will operate.