Priced individually — your dip pattern, volumes and any accompanying contouring shape the plan. One written figure after a free photo assessment, no extras later.
This range is indicative — confirmed individually after assessment. The difference is structural — staffing, facility costs and currency — not clinical: same anaesthesia standards, same fat-grafting craft, a surgeon you can verify from your sofa. Two rules keep any quote honest, including ours: no number before a photo assessment, and clarity on what happens to the figure if plans change. Here, both live in writing.
Comparing against filler? Remember the renewal arithmetic — 1–3 year cycles at hip volumes commonly overtake surgery's one-time cost. The comparison page runs the numbers without a stake in your answer.
Nothing here is a menu price. Six things decide where an individual plan lands — and each one is visible to you before you agree to anything.
Volumes sit typically in the 150–400 cc per side range. Where inside that range your plan falls depends on how deep the dip runs, how far along the lateral line it extends, and how smooth a transition you are after. A shallow dip that only shows in certain clothing and a long, deep hollow are different quantities of work, and they are quoted differently. Your range comes from your photographs — the mechanics of how that volume is placed are set out on the surgery page.
Close symmetry is uncommon in any body, so each side is planned and filled independently, with different volumes where the two differ. A pattern where one side is noticeably deeper changes how the planned volume is distributed between the two sides, and that distribution is read off the photographs rather than assumed. Asymmetric hip dips covers how that assessment is made.
The fat placed into the hip hollow is usually harvested from precisely the areas people want slimmed — flanks, waist, outer thighs. When waist or flank contouring is genuinely wanted, it happens in the same operation rather than a second one, which changes the figure but not the trip. Whether it suits you is confirmed at assessment; combining procedures and hip dips and love handles explain when the eye actually reads the difference.
One session has a natural ceiling, and goals larger than that ceiling are staged by design rather than forced into a single operation. Most plans are built as one session, sized with the survival arithmetic in mind; where staging is the honest answer, you are told at the quote stage and not at the 3–6 month review. The FAQ sets out both situations in which a second session becomes a sensible conversation.
Typically 1.5–3 hours under sedation or general anaesthesia, day-case or one night. Which of those your plan calls for follows from the volumes, any accompanying contouring and your anaesthesia work-up — not from a package tier. The accredited facility, the anaesthetist and the overnight stay where planned are already inside the one figure.
Not a date, not a season, not how soon you decide. There is no number at all before a photo assessment, and what happens to the figure if your plan changes is written down at the same time as the figure itself. Deciding slowly, or deciding not to, costs nothing here — and "do nothing" remains a respected outcome of an assessment right up to the day of surgery.
Hip dip correction is young enough as a named procedure that marketing has outpaced standards. These questions cost nothing to ask and are the fastest way to tell a fat-grafting practice from a trend-rider.
Ask: what range of cc per side does my dip pattern call for, and why that range? What the answer tells you: a specialist answers in cc-per-side ranges tied to your photographs and to the roughly 50–70% that survives long-term. A trend-rider answers in transformation adjectives. The arithmetic is not optional detail here — it is what the plan is built on.
Ask: describe only your dips, then see what comes back. What the answer tells you: if a request about a lateral hollow returns a package built around gluteal augmentation, upsell is the default setting. Hip dip correction and a BBL are different operations with different volumes and different recoveries — the comparison exists so the choice is yours rather than the quote's.
Ask: surgeon's fee, facility, anaesthesia, garments, in-city reviews, transfers, aftercare — which of these are in, and in writing? What the answer tells you: "all-inclusive" means nothing until it is enumerated. The list at the top of this page is that enumeration, and it is what the written quote repeats back to you after the photo assessment.
Ask: if the examination on day 1–2 changes the plan, what changes about the figure? What the answer tells you: a practice that has thought about this has an answer already written down. Photographs get a plan a long way, but the confirmation happens in the room — which is why the first days of the Istanbul stay are examination and plan confirmation, not surgery.
Ask: under what circumstances would you advise against operating on me? What the answer tells you: a practice that can say "your contour does not need surgery" is the one to trust when it says the opposite. Hip dips are normal anatomy; too little donor fat, a weight still moving and nicotine that cannot yet stop are all real answers, and they are set out on the candidacy page before anyone quotes you.
Ask: who reviews my photographs at week 4, at month 3, and how quickly does someone answer "is this normal?" What the answer tells you: the verdict on a fat transfer belongs to months 3–6, which is long after most patients have gone home. Aftercare that ends at the airport is aftercare that stops before the result exists. The full set of niche-specific checks is in the verification checklist.
A free assessment, an honest volume range, and one written all-inclusive quote.
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