How to Choose a Gastric Sleeve Clinic: A Surgeon’s Checklist (Video)
How to choose a gastric sleeve clinic? In this 70-second video Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı gives you his checklist.
Voice translated with AI from the original German recording; the content and wording are the surgeon’s own.
What the video covers
If you search for the best gastric sleeve clinic in Turkey, you mostly find ranking lists from agencies. In this video Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı explains what actually decides the result – and why your first conversation should be with the surgeon who will operate on you, not with a sales team. In many clinics you never meet that person before the day of surgery.
The surgeon’s checklist
- Who will actually operate on you – by name?
- How many years and how many cases – and how are complications handled?
- Which materials are used, for example the staplers
- Read independent reviews on Google and Trustpilot
- Contact the doctor directly – for example on Instagram or WhatsApp – and talk to him before you book
Free assessment – send your height, weight and age; Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı replies personally.
Read more
- Weight loss surgery Turkey – the bariatric centre of Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı in İzmir
- Gastric sleeve Turkey – the procedure, recovery and results
- Gastric sleeve Turkey price – from £3,000 all-inclusive, hospital stay until discharge
- Gastric sleeve Turkey reviews – what other patients say
- Bariatric surgeon Izmir – Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı, IFSO member, 5,000+ operations
Your questions to Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı
Send me your height, weight and age – I will tell you personally which operation is suitable and what it costs. A gastric sleeve costs from £3,000 as a fixed price, including pre-operative tests, four nights in hospital until discharge – no hotel – transfers, an interpreter and twelve months of aftercare; the flight is not included.
Whether an operation is right for you is decided individually. Results are not guaranteed.
Free assessment – send your height, weight and age; Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı replies personally.
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Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı
Specialist in Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery · Izmir, Turkey
This article was written and medically reviewed by Op. Dr. Volkan Arayıcı. Dr. Arayıcı has been exclusively specialising in bariatric surgery since 2014 and has performed over 5,000 procedures at a JCI- and TEMOS-accredited hospital in Izmir.
✍ Published: November 3, 2026 · 🔄 Updated: November 7, 2026 · About the author →
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