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Industry · Healthcare · Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery

Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery: Two Separate Regimes, Two Separate Setups

Aesthetic surgery is both the most sought-after service in a private hospital and the riskiest one in regulatory terms. The promotion regulation dated 12 November 2025 closed off before-and-after images, patient satisfaction posts, price and campaign announcements, and sponsored promotion inside Turkey. In return, health tourism was regulated as a separate regime: facilities holding HealthTürkiye authorization may run sponsored promotion in languages other than Turkish, through a separate platform targeting audiences abroad only, and may feature patient stories based on explicit consent. All of the growth in this field comes from drawing that distinction correctly.

Industry · Healthcare · Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery

Domestic and International: Same Service, Two Different Rule Sets

A patient coming from Istanbul for a rhinoplasty and a patient coming from London cannot legally be served through the same channel. Hospitals that do not set this distinction up technically end up breaching the domestic ban while believing they are covered by the health tourism exception.

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Questions to Ask an Agency About Aesthetic Surgery

In this field, an agency that stumbles on the first question exposes the hospital to both administrative sanctions and reputational risk.

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Our Services for Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery

We set the two regimes up separately and grow each with the tools it permits.

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Domestic: Findability and Physician Authority

Inside Turkey, where sponsored promotion is closed off, growth comes from informational content that explains the procedure without making promises, from physician authority, and from search and AI visibility.

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Health Tourism: Separate Platform, Multilingual Setup

For facilities holding HealthTürkiye authorization, we build a separate platform in languages other than Turkish, manage sponsored promotion with targeting abroad only, and use patient stories with documented consent in that channel. Our health tourism page →

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Technical Setup of the Channel Separation

Keeping the two regimes from mixing is not a copywriting matter but an infrastructure one: separation by domain or language version, separate accounts, geographic targeting rules, and measurement that reports the two channels separately.

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From Form to Surgery Tracking and Regulatory Review

In both channels we track separately how contacts turn into consultations and consultations into procedures, and we review published content against the regulation. The regulatory information on this page is based on the Regulation on Promotion and Information Activities in Health Services (Official Gazette, 12 November 2025, issue 33075) and is provided for information purposes; it is not legal advice. Have your own legal counsel confirm how it applies to you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions About Aesthetic Surgery Marketing

Can we run ads for rhinoplasty in Turkey?

Sponsored promotion aimed at audiences inside Turkey is prohibited by the regulation. The tools that remain domestically are organic search visibility, appearing in AI answers, physician authority, and informational content that explains the procedure without making promises. Sponsored promotion is possible only under the health tourism regime, on condition of HealthTürkiye authorization, a language other than Turkish and targeting abroad only. The regulatory information on this page is based on the Regulation on Promotion and Information Activities in Health Services (Official Gazette, 12 November 2025, issue 33075) and is provided for information purposes; it is not legal advice. Have your own legal counsel confirm how it applies to you.

Can we use before and after photos?

In domestic promotion, using these images for advertising purposes is prohibited; the regulation also explicitly prohibits images involving montage or misleading makeup, as well as footage taken during an operation. Within the scope of health tourism, patient stories may be featured in the international channel with patient privacy protected and explicit consent documented. Advertising platforms' own policies may reject these images separately, independently of the regulation.

Should we set up a separate site for international patients?

The regulation provides for promotion aimed at audiences abroad to be carried out in languages other than Turkish and through a separate platform. In practice that means a separate domain or a separate language version, separate social media accounts, and geographic targeting that excludes Turkey. The separation has to be technically verifiable; a setup mixed together on a single site cannot benefit from the exception.

How do you persuade an international patient without giving a price?

Price alone is not decisive for an international patient; the surgeon's experience, how the process works, travel and accommodation arrangements, a companion and how post-operative follow-up will be handled carry at least as much weight as price. Explaining these topics openly and completely produces qualified enquiries without entering a price negotiation.

What should we measure success by in this field?

Not by the number of forms. In aesthetic surgery the meaningful metrics are the share of contacts that turn into consultations, the conversion from consultation to surgery, and cost per patient; in the international channel you add a breakdown by country and the cancellation rate. The two channels should be reported separately, because their cost structures and conversion timelines are completely different.
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