About Clinic Truth
Clinic Truth is an independent investigative publication about international medical tourism. We read the reviews at scale, read between the marketing lines, and publish verdicts — green for clinics that check out, red for clinics we'd steer you away from.
Founded April 2026 · Published from Tirana, Albania
Who writes this
Why this exists
Most online content about medical tourism is produced by the clinics themselves, by marketing agencies working for clinics, or by affiliate networks earning commission on referrals. That's fine for promotion. It's useless for patients trying to decide where to spend €3,000–€15,000 on their teeth, their hair, or their face.
Our editorial team reads the reviews at scale. Analyses the Trustpilot data. Cross-references clinic websites against patient reports. Checks court filings when patients claim something went wrong. Publishes the finding with a verdict — green if the clinic checks out, red if we'd tell a friend to stay away.
We do this because we coordinate patients daily. When a patient emails us asking "Is Vera Clinic safe? Is Dentakay worth it? What about Dr Cinik?" — we needed the data in one place. If we needed it, other patients do too.
How we make money
One revenue stream. Readers who, after reading our investigations, decide they want help coordinating treatment in Albania instead of Turkey, become patients of AlbaniaClinic.com — our sister coordination service. Clinics in Tirana pay AlbaniaClinic a small finder's fee when a patient completes treatment. Readers pay nothing.
That is the only way this publication funds itself. No clinic we review — in Turkey, in Germany, in the UK, or anywhere else — has ever paid us, pitched us, or influenced a single line of what we publish. No affiliate links. No sponsored placements. No "partnered with" boxes. No advertorials.
Because this matters for how you read us: our bias is that we coordinate to Albania. When we compare Albania and Turkey, Albania might look better than it otherwise would. To control for that, read our methodology — every piece of data we publish is sourced; you can audit us.
What we publish
We cover four categories in every investigation type:
- Brand reviews — one clinic, analysed at depth. Every Trustpilot review we can pull, cross-checked against the clinic's marketing claims. Example: Vera Clinic Reviews 2026 — what 2,043 patients really say.
- Comparisons — two or three clinics, same procedure. Same methodology applied to each. Winner named, with reasoning. Example: Hair transplant Turkey vs Albania — the honest comparison.
- Investigations — structural problems in the industry. When something goes wrong, why, and how often. Example: Hair transplant gone wrong: Turkey — the cases the packages don't mention.
- Guides — practical "how do I pick a clinic?" material. No rankings, just process. Example: Five questions that separate serious clinics from package mills.
Cadence is two publications per week (Monday and Thursday). Every piece gets a verdict: either a green VERIFIED stamp (we'd feel comfortable sending a family member to this clinic) or a red CAUTION stamp (we'd tell a friend to stay away). We do not publish "balanced overviews" — the job of a publication is to take a position, with receipts, and let the reader disagree.
What we will not do
- Take payment from any clinic we review. No exceptions. If a clinic offers, we say no and publish that they offered.
- Remove negative reviews or verdicts for any reason other than factual correction. If a clinic challenges a published fact, and provides evidence the fact is wrong, we update with a public correction log entry. We do not delete.
- Recommend a specific clinician by brand loyalty. We recommend clinics and procedures based on the data we can verify, not on relationships.
- Publish without a named source. Every review of a clinic cites the underlying Trustpilot, Google, or regulatory data. No "insiders say." No "industry sources." Named publications and numbered reviews only.
Methodology in one sentence
For each clinic we investigate: pull every Trustpilot review we can access · sample 200–500 of them at random · cross-reference against the clinic's public claims on their own website · check for regulatory registration in the national medical register · compare price claims against at least two other clinics in the same city · publish the findings with a green or red verdict, every source linked.
For the full version with exact procedures, data sources, and limitations — see our methodology page.
What we've published so far
As of April 2026, eleven investigations are live:
- Vera Clinic Reviews 2026 — 2,043 patients analysed
- Dr Cinik Reviews 2026 — 6,633 patients analysed
- Hair Transplant Turkey vs Albania
- Elithair vs Albania: the 2-minute reality check
- Smile Hair Clinic Reviews 2026
- Elithair Reviews UK 2026
- Hair Transplant Gone Wrong: Turkey
- Dentakay Reviews 2026
- Dental Implants Turkey vs Albania vs Hungary
- Dr Serkan Aygin Reviews 2026
- (And this publication itself, plus two structural pages)
More in the pipeline: Cosmedica, ASMED, Turkey Teeth investigation, UK dental emergency routes, the economics of "all-inclusive packages." Publication cadence resumes the week of 28 April 2026 on the new chassis.
Contact us
Email: info@clinictruth.com
WhatsApp: +355 68 409 9986
Postal: Rruga Panorama, Tirana, Albania
Full contact options and pitch guidelines on the contact page.
This page last reviewed: 22 April 2026. Next scheduled review: 22 July 2026.