Op. Dr. Şafak Çakır

Valentmedica is not a clinic. We do not own the hospitals or employ the surgeons. We assess patients clinically before quoting, select and name the clinician, arrange the logistics and run the aftercare — a distinction set out in full on our about us page.

To be completed by the clinic

Şafak Çakır — verified details

These are left blank rather than filled with plausible text. A surgeon’s training and registration are the things a patient is most entitled to rely on, so nothing here is written until the clinic supplies it and it has been checked against the register.

Until this is filled in

Ask us directly. We will give you Şafak Çakır’s full name, registration number and procedure volumes in writing before you pay a deposit, as we do for every patient. A provider unwilling to do that is telling you something worth hearing.

1. Registration. A current Turkish Ministry of Health registration, verified against the register rather than taken from a CV.
2. Specialist training. A completed residency in the relevant specialty, with the training hospital and dates on file.
3. Volume in the specific procedure. Declared honestly and checkable. A plastic surgeon who does four rhinoplasties a year is not a rhinoplasty surgeon.
4. Who does what. The named clinician performs the parts that determine the result. For a hair transplant that means designing the hairline and opening the channels personally.
5. Willingness to decline. A surgeon who accepts every case we send is either not assessing properly or is subordinating judgement to the relationship.
6. Documentation. An operation note, discharge summary, histology where tissue is removed and an implant passport where a device is placed — for every patient, without being chased.
7. Aftercare. Available to review patient photographs at three, six and twelve months, rather than treating discharge as the end.

Transparency about complications

We expect a partner to report complications, including the ones that resolved. A surgeon who reports none is not reporting — every honest operator has them, and the ones who say otherwise are the ones to worry about.

• Your photographs, history and goals are reviewed before any surgeon is named.
• Several procedures go only to clinicians who perform them regularly — Afro-textured hair transplant, bariatric revision, breast implant revision, secondary rhinoplasty.
• A revision of someone else’s work goes to a surgeon who does revisions, which is a different skill from primary surgery.
• If nobody on our list is the right person for your case, we say so rather than allocating the nearest fit.
• You are told who it is, with their registration number, before you pay anything.
• If you would rather see someone else, say so. We will explain the reasoning and, where it is reasonable, change it.

We pay the hospitals and clinicians at rates agreed in advance, and we take no commission in either direction. The reasoning is on our partnerships page: an intermediary paid per booking has a financial reason to accept patients who should be declined.

1. What is this surgeon’s full name and registration number, and may I verify it myself?
2. How many of my specific procedure do they perform in a year?
3. Which parts will they perform personally, and which will a technician or assistant perform?
4. Which facility, what is its licence, and is there intensive care on site?
5. Will a consultant anaesthetist be present throughout, or supervising from elsewhere?
6. Has a clinician reviewed my photographs before this price was quoted?
7. May I speak to the surgeon on video before I pay a deposit?
8. What is the complications policy, in writing, before payment?

Answers that should worry you

A firm price before anyone clinical looked at your photographs. A refusal to name the surgeon before payment. "Technicians do that everywhere" offered as an answer rather than an explanation. A guaranteed result, or a complication rate of zero. All four are common, and all four are warnings.

1. Ask us for the full name as it appears on the register, and the registration number. We give both in writing before payment.
2. Check the name against the Turkish Ministry of Health register, and against the relevant specialist society.
3. Confirm the specialty matches the procedure. A dermatologist and a plastic surgeon are not interchangeable for surgery.
4. Ask which hospital holds their operating privileges, and check that the hospital’s licence is current.
5. Search the name independently, not only the clinic’s own pages.
6. If anything does not reconcile, stop and ask us about it directly.

If you find something we missed, tell us. We would far rather hear it from you than have a patient treated by someone who should not be on our list.