Source — Breast Reduction. Medical tourism in Turkey has been pulling in serious numbers for years now, but breast reduction surgery specifically has carved out a surprisingly big slice of that pie. In 2023, about 200,000 international patients traveled to Turkey for plastic surgery, and breast procedures, reductions included, accounted for roughly a quarter of those cases. That's not just a blip. Numbers have been rising since 2018. Big rebound after the COVID dip. So, why Turkey? Price gap. Honestly, in the US, breast reduction costs $8,000 to $15,000. Higher in New York or San Francisco, and the same procedure in Turkey costs $3,500 to $5,500. But price alone? So the clinics themselves? Heavy investment.
Then there's the volume argument. What the numbers actually look like Here are the concrete figures, no marketing fluff. Patient demographics, and that's shifted too. And even with demand rising, competition among clinics has kept prices from climbing.