TummyTuckIstanbul explains abdominoplasty for people in the United Kingdom. We do not perform surgery. We do not rank or recommend individual clinics or surgeons. Pages are written and fact-checked by the editorial team. There is no named medical reviewer. Private fees are explained only in the cost guide.
What this guide is for
The pages are for someone in the UK who wants to understand the operation before speaking to a clinician. They describe what a tummy tuck is, how the named types differ, what the NHS does and does not fund, what a private quote should contain, and what recovery and complications look like in general. Surgery abroad is treated as a planning question, including who sees you after you fly home. None of that is an invitation to book a hospital.
Where a page prints a number — the price range from the NHS.uk tummy tuck guide1, a complication rate from a peer-reviewed review2, or a consenting standard from the General Medical Council3 — the source is linked in the page and re-listed at the bottom. Numbers without a source do not belong on a health page.
What the pages will not do
This site does not examine you, look at a wound, or say whether you should have surgery. It does not publish a gallery, a ranking of clinics, or a clinician-review badge. A number, a rate, or a funding rule on a surgery page is tied to a source you can open. The method is on the editorial standards page. How the site is paid for, and the empty reviewer chair, have their own pages. If a sentence is wrong, the contact page is the way to say so.
The site is not a directory. It does not accept payment from clinics for placement, and it does not host paid reviews. The how we make money page explains the current funding position and lists what the site does not accept.
How claims are checked
Editorial standards follow the Health On the Net foundation principles for health information4: date each page, name a source for each medical claim, separate an editorial statement from an advertisement, and correct in the open. Where clinical guidance is quoted, the guidance is dated and linked. Where a study is quoted, its PMID is linked and the title is reproduced verbatim, so a reader can check it in one click.
Complication figures come from published literature and describe groups of patients under specific conditions. They do not predict a reader's own outcome. Recovery descriptions are ranges, not schedules, and every page carries the medical disclaimer that reads more like a statement of scope than a warning.
Where to start
If you have not read a surgery page yet, start with what a tummy tuck is. Cost, NHS funding, and travel come after that. The four cards below are about the guide itself, not about the operation. They explain how the text is checked, how the site is funded, why no doctor is named, and how to write to the desk.