How we write
Editorial policy
Our guides are written to help you make a decision, including deciding against surgery. This page explains who writes them, what we base them on, and what we have not done, so you can judge them accordingly.
Who writes and reviews these guides
Guides are written and edited by a named member of the Dr Vivo Hair Clinic content team, working from the clinic's own patient-facing material and from the published sources listed below. The writer is a content specialist, not a clinician; each guide shows their name and links to their profile.
Every guide is then checked for medical accuracy by a named clinician who works at the clinic. That reviewer is credited on the guide with their qualification, photograph and a link to their profile, and the clinic is accountable for everything we publish.
What our review does and does not cover. The medical review checks each guide against current clinical practice before it is published. It is general information, not personal medical advice about your own case, and it is not a substitute for seeing a doctor in your own country before you travel. Where the clinic supplies a medical registration number for the reviewing clinician it is shown on their profile; until then the credit rests on the clinician's name, qualification and profile page. Please treat these guides as clinic-produced information that a clinician has checked, not as independent medical advice.
We have a commercial interest, and we say so
Dr Vivo performs and sells hair transplant procedures. Anything we publish about hair restoration is written by a business that benefits when you choose surgery. That is exactly why every guide carries a visible note saying so, and why we encourage you to read independent sources and speak to a doctor in your own country before travelling.
What we base guides on
We prefer sources in this order:
- Peer-reviewed literature and systematic reviews, for example on PubMed Central
- National health bodies and specialist associations, such as the NHS, the American Academy of Dermatology, DermNet and the ISHRS
- Clinical reference works such as StatPearls
Where a guide states a figure, we link to a source you can check that we do not control. We do not publish statistics about our own outcomes, because we have no independently audited data to support them.
What we will not publish
- Guaranteed results, or any suggestion that surgery is risk free or painless
- Success rates or graft survival figures presented as our own results
- Before and after photographs presented as a prediction of your result
- Promotion of prescription-only medicines to the public
- A named clinician, credential or accreditation that we cannot evidence
How often we review
Guides are reviewed on a rolling basis and at least every two years. Where an article has been genuinely revised, the revision date is shown at the top. We do not restamp articles with a new date when nothing has changed, because that would make stale information look current.
Corrections
If you find something inaccurate, out of date or misleading, please tell us and we will correct it. Write to contact@drvivohairclinic.com with the page address and what you believe is wrong.
Who is responsible for this site
Dr Vivo Hair Clinic, 19 Mayıs, 19 Mayıs Cd. No: 8, 34360 Şişli/İstanbul. Contact: contact@drvivohairclinic.com.