Marketing claims should be verifiable through independent registries — not via the practice's own word. Below: every claim Dr. Erdal makes about training, board certification, and authorisation, with a direct verification link to the issuing body.
International board certifications
Independent professional fellowships awarded by international standards bodies after rigorous peer review. Each verifiable through the certifying organisation's public Fellow lookup.
Senior surgical fellowship awarded after demonstrated clinical competence, ethical practice, and contribution to surgical literature. Inducted at ACS Clinical Congress 2025.
Fellow, European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
European board certification requiring rigorous written and oral examinations across the full plastic surgery curriculum. Held by a minority of European plastic surgeons.
Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery Specialist
National board certification through the Turkish Ministry of Health. Required for all qualified plastic surgeons practising in Türkiye — registered specialty status.
Plastic Surgery — Gazi University Faculty of Medicine
Academic title (Doçent / Associate Professor) awarded after defended thesis, peer-reviewed publication record, and academic peer review by national university council.
Türkiye regulates international medical tourism through the Ministry of Health. Practices treating international patients must hold an International Health Tourism Authorization issued under specific quality and safety criteria.
Active · Issued 10 March 2026
International Health Tourism Authorization
Regulatory authorisation specifically for treating international patients. Verifiable through the Sağlık Turizmi (Health Tourism) platform. The certificate number below is unique to the practice and confirms current authorised status.
T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı — International Health Tourism Authorization Certificate
Hospital accreditation
Surgery is performed at a JCI-accredited (Joint Commission International) private hospital in Istanbul. JCI is the international gold standard for hospital quality and patient safety.
JCI Accredited
Joint Commission International — Hospital Accreditation
Rigorous standards for infection control, surgical safety checklists, anaesthesia protocols, emergency response, and patient rights. Re-accreditation every 3 years through external audit.
Surgical thinking submitted to the scrutiny of independent international peer reviewers. Publications are listed in the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed database — independent of any practice or website. Search by surgeon name returns the full citation list.
30+ Indexed
PubMed Publication Record
Search "Erdal AI" on PubMed returns 30+ peer-reviewed publications across plastic surgery, breast surgery, rhinoplasty, and reconstructive techniques. Each entry includes full citation, journal, date, and co-authors.
Selected international peer-reviewed plastic surgery journals carrying Dr. Erdal's work:
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) — flagship journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ) — journal of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Annals of Plastic Surgery — long-established peer-reviewed plastic surgery journal
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (JPRAS) — European peer-reviewed journal
Facial Plastic Surgery — international journal on facial aesthetic surgery
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery — craniofacial and reconstructive surgery
The publication process for these journals takes months to years per article and is rejected far more often than accepted. The presence of multiple publications across this set indicates clinical thinking that has met international academic peer review.
Professional society memberships
Active membership in major international plastic surgery societies — each requires baseline credentialing and annual professional standing.
ACS
American College of Surgeons
Fellow status (FACS) — senior surgical fellowship.
Many international patients have been disappointed by clinics whose marketing claims didn't match their actual credentials. Verification is the only protection.
Every claim on this page is verifiable through the linked official registry — independent of this website, independent of the practice. Run the verification checks. They take a few minutes total. The credentials shown should match exactly what the official registry returns.
