Credentials: verify them yourself
Credentials are only worth what you can verify. Each item below names the body that issued it and where a patient can check it — because the honest answer to 'why trust a surgeon abroad' is 'don't trust; verify'.
- FACS: Fellow of the American College of Surgeons — inducted ACS Clinical Congress 2025; verifiable in the ACS directory.
- FEBOPRAS: European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery — the board exam UK and EU plastic surgeons sit.
- Associate Professor: Turkish academic title awarded on peer-reviewed publication and examination — Gazi University Faculty of Medicine.
- USHAŞ authorisation: Turkish Ministry of Health international health-tourism licence No. 2026034015610080000444996.
- Memberships: ISAPS, ASPS, ACS, EBOPRAS, TPRECD — all searchable by name.
Training
MD, Hacettepe University; plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery residency, Gazi University; fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York) and Ghent University Hospital (Belgium). Breast surgery — reconstructive and aesthetic — is a core part of that training, and the endoscopic transaxillary technique is a skill built on it.
Boards and fellowships
FACS — Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inducted at the ACS Clinical Congress 2025 after credential and practice review. FEBOPRAS — Fellow of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, awarded on examination; the same European board UK and EU plastic surgeons hold.
Academic record
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery; 30+ peer-reviewed publications searchable on PubMed under 'Erdal AI'; ISAPS World Congress 2023 gold and bronze awards.
Regulation
Turkish Ministry of Health international health-tourism authorisation (USHAŞ), number published above. Surgery is performed in accredited Istanbul hospitals; the clinic is at Teşvikiye Caddesi No:9/12, Şişli.
How to verify: ACS Find-a-Surgeon for FACS; the EBOPRAS fellows list; PubMed for publications; and ask any clinic — including this one — for its Ministry of Health authorisation number. A surgeon who welcomes the check is the one to choose.
Questions patients ask
Double board-certified: FACS and FEBOPRAS, plus the Turkish specialist qualification and Associate Professor title.
Yes — consultation, sizing, marking, surgery and follow-ups are with Dr. Erdal directly; no agencies, no delegated operating.
In accredited Istanbul hospitals with full anaesthesia and monitoring facilities; the clinic itself is in Nişantaşı, Şişli.
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