I am just back from a FUT session in Istanbul on Monday this week, 20/11 at the AEK International and just received the number of grafts that was 1976. Cost €5000 cash.
I am trying to gather my thoughts as I feel fooled completely. AEK international implanted grafts during 3 hours only.
I asked for the number of grafts before hand and they could not promise anything. In hindsight I am upset about this and they just babble about it will be better results with fewer but this is a proper scammer team. A lot of customers from the USA arrived there and I wonder if they even knew what was going to happen to them if they should get anything for the money.
In addition it was dirty and not clean at all there. I was lying on the table and stared straight into dirty operation table pedals. This is a surgery that should be clinically clean.
I made a similar session at Shapiro 2011 in Minneapolis in the USA. They worked with a whole team for a whole day from early morning till late night. We started 8 am and finished 9 pm. But I also had a head full of follicles.
The efficiency is vastly different also. On top of my head I had 8,000-10,000 grafts at Shapiro and the team worked all the time. Shapiro was extremely (!!) professional. Cost $9000 for a job that was more than 3 times in size.
AEK international was nice and friendly but in the hindsight when I now see the number of grafts I realise I have been properly screwed.
If I had stayed in London I could have had work done for the same money and had more than these guys did in Turkey.
Please do not go there!