Medical Departures

Medical Departures

By Paul McTaggartMedicineHealth & Fitness
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Medical Departures episodes

  • You won’t believe that 77% less foreign patients went to South Korea in 2020

    You won’t believe that 77% less foreign patients went to South Korea in 2020

    • Let’s talk about the inconvenient truth of IMTJ’s article
    • The Korean Health Industry Development Institute  reported that foreign patients were down 76.5% from 2019 (in 2020)
    • These stats include both expats and true foreign patients not residing in S. Korea
    • Cosmetic Surgery suffered the biggest YoY drop at -82%
    • The report estimated that the overall trend would continue this year
    • Medical Departures backs up these findings with our own data from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand
    • We thought Asia would be FIFO, but it looks more like FILO = Recovery is expected in Q3-Q4 2022
      • 1 min
    • Save 70% on your hair transplant in UK

      Save 70% on your hair transplant in UK

      • Here’s 1 tip for Brits to save up to 70% on their hair transplant
      • What do you do if you are losing your hair?
      • And you don’t look like the Rock, Jason Stathom, Patrick Stewart, Vin Disiel
      • Go to  Estetik International  in Istanbul Turkey to get your FUE, FUT, DHI hair transplant at a 70% savings vs. the UK
        • 2 min
      • 1 tip to save you up to 70% on your Mommy Makeover

        1 tip to save you up to 70% on your Mommy Makeover

        • Here’s 1 tip to save you up to 70% on your Mommy Makeover
        • Go to Istanbul, Turkey and save 70%
        • A mommy makeover is a combination of 3X procedures to put everything back to where they below Prior to having kids) = tummy tuck, liposuction, breast lift
        • Surgery takes 10-12 hours at clinics like = Estetik International
        • Recovery time = 10 days at clinics like  = Istanbul Aesthetic Center
        • Average cost = 7,000 EUR at clinics like = Hisar Hospital
        • To get more details contact Medical Departures 
          • 1 min
        • What is an FUE hair transplant?

          What is an FUE hair transplant?

          • Stands for Follicular Unit Extraction
          • The MOST popular of the three hair transplant techniques 3X (FUT, FUE, DHI)
          • surgeon will harvest the hair follicles one by one and re-insert them to the baled parts.
          • Advantages = minor scarring (unlike FUT), quicker recovery time (5-7 days), less discomfort post surgery i.e. no strip of skin removed,
          • Disadvantages = longer surgery time up to 12 hours in total (vs. 6 hours)
          • Cost in Turkey = 1 EUR per graft, 1,900  EUR - 2k grafts
            • 1 min
          • What is an FUT hair transplant?

            What is an FUT hair transplant?

            • Stands for Follicular Unit Transplant
            • Also known as the strip process and the ‘oldest’ of the 3X (FUT, FUE, DHI)
            • Process involves taking a strip of hair from the back of the head
            • Advantages = less expensive, less time in surgery (4-6 hours in just one session)
            • Disadvantages = causes scaring from strip removal, healing time is longer due to strip removal, harder to do multiple hair transplants (you generally need more than 1X treatment to get thick hair)
            • Cost in Turkey = 1.7- 2 EUR per graft, 1,300 EUR - 2000 EUR
              • 1 min

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