Hair transplant for Lyons
The practical answer first, since it is usually the question: Lyons to our door is about 7 miles, ogden Avenue west to Route 83 north.
Ogden Avenue west. Around fifteen minutes door to door.
Getting here from Lyons
The drive
Ogden Avenue west to Route 83 north — about 7 miles, roughly 15 minutes outside peak hours.
Where we are
2425 W. 22nd Street, Suite 205C, Oak Brook, IL 60523. Open in Maps
Parking
There is parking at the building itself — worth knowing given how long a procedure day actually takes.
Route 83 does the whole job. It runs north-south through the western suburbs and passes within a block of the practice at 22nd Street, so there is no expressway merge and no toll on this trip at all. It is the route we most often describe over the phone, because it is the one that is hardest to get wrong.
Cook County patients reach us from the near-west suburbs, and the trip is almost always shorter than expected — the county line sits a few miles east of the practice. It is worth knowing because the twelve-to-eighteen month follow-up schedule is what decides whether a result is assessed properly, and that schedule only works if getting here is unremarkable.
The follow-up is the point.
Here is what proximity actually buys you. If growth is disappointing at month eight, someone has to look at your scalp under magnification and say why. From Lyons that is a 15-minute drive. From an overseas clinic it is a photograph attached to an email.
At this distance the follow-up schedule stops being a logistical question at all. Grafts shed at two to four weeks, regrowth starts somewhere around months three to six, and the result is judged at twelve to eighteen months — and every one of those checkpoints is a short drive rather than a day out.
Two procedures, for Lyons patients as for everyone else.
FUE hair transplant
Units taken one by one from the safe donor zone and placed at the angle and density the surrounding hair already has. No strip harvesting, and no linear scar to plan a haircut around.
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PRP therapy
A medical option rather than a surgical one, used alongside or instead of a transplant depending on where your loss actually is.
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Your donor area is finite.
A donor area is a budget, not a resource. Removing more than twenty to thirty percent of the follicular units from one zone in a single session risks visible permanent thinning there — which is why large restorations are staged rather than done in one sitting, and why we plan for the pattern you will have in twenty years rather than the one in the mirror today.
Sometimes the right answer is to wait, or to stabilise medically first. If your loss is still moving quickly, operating into it is how people end up with an island of transplanted hair and a gap opening behind it. That is a real outcome of a consultation here, and it is not a lost sale.
Source: ISHRS, Hair Transplant Forum International — Safe Donor Follicle Harvesting in FUE
Find out where you stand before you drive anywhere.
Five questions, no phone call, and an honest read on where you actually stand. It will tell you if you are a candidate, and equally if this is the wrong year to be operated on.
Lyons questions
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Book an examination, not a quote.
Whether or not you choose us, the sequence from Lyons should be the same — examination first, plan second, date third. Anyone reversing that order is selling a procedure rather than assessing a candidate.
Serving Lyons and the surrounding Cook County communities. Distances and drive times are approximate. Individual results vary; candidacy is determined only by physical examination.