Aesthetic work is done on anatomy that cannot be undone. Choosing a surgeon is a matter of training and judgement before price and Instagram stills. This guide is not a ‘7 tips’ list; it is clinical criteria you can test in consultation.

1. Title and actual specialty

In Turkey, plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery is a distinct specialty. A course certificate is not a residency. Ask which operations form the spine of that physician’s weekly practice — rhinoplasty, face and breast are different learning curves.

2. The ability to say no

A good surgeon offers an office treatment or waiting to someone who is not a surgical candidate. The split on this site between facelift, threads and filler is exactly that judgement. ‘We do everything’ is a practice that does not read layers.

3. Facility and anaesthesia

Theatre conditions, an anaesthetist and an emergency protocol are a different standard from office injection. The question is mandatory in a general-anaesthesia plan.

4. How to read before-and-afters

Without the same light, angle and expression, a photograph is an advertisement. If only the best cases are shown and revision and complication appear not to exist, the spectrum is incomplete. Ask for anatomy close to your own face, not a celebrity face.

5. The language of complication and revision

Haematoma, asymmetry, scar, occlusion — a plan that does not name them is incomplete. Revision policy and who pays should be written.

6. Follow-up

A day 10–14 toxin review, 12 months after rhinoplasty, capsule surveillance after breast surgery. Seeing the surgeon on the day of surgery and then vanishing is not part of the process.

7. Conflict of interest

A single-brand ‘best in class’ claim may be pressure to sell device or filler stock. Brand comes after anatomy and indication.

In Dr. Hasan Kara’s practice the plan is individual; natural proportion, measured intervention and the surgery–office split are those criteria applied.

In short

The right surgeon is not the one who convinces you of every procedure; it is the one who tells you which layer you are not a candidate for.