Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Lyon: price and key facts
Hair transplant for patients from Lyon at City Medical Centre starts at €2,000 (from $2,200). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.
Price
€2,000 (from $2,200)
Performed by
Anastasia A. Kolesnik, hair transplant doctor
Anesthesia
local
Stay
one day at the clinic
Final result
12–18 months after surgery
How it works
Send photos on WhatsApp or Telegram, get a free doctor assessment and the price, then confirm the plan and dates before anything is booked.
Graft transfer is done here by three technologies: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Look at the implantation technique, the tissue trauma and the graft survival before you choose.
FUE
Classic technique without incisions or stitches
Discount through late November
$2,200
$2,700
Graft implantation technique
Forceps
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Androgenetic alopecia
DHI
No-stitch implantation with a Choi pen
Discount through late November
$2,500
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
DHI pen, Choi implanter
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification
Combined DHI/FUE
FUE for extraction, DHI implant
Discount through late November
$2,700
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
FUE extraction + DHI implantation
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification for androgenetic alopecia
The numbers for survival and trauma are averaged for each method and given as a guide: exact values depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features and are clarified by the doctor at consultation.
The doctor will not send you for surgery you do not need and says so at the consultation, sparing your money. Below are the situations in which a transplant truly helps.
Cases grafting can fix
Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
A receding hairline
Contraindications
Trichotillomania
Body dysmorphic disorder
Cancer
Under 18 years of age
A high hairline
Insufficient hair density
Genetic features of hair growth
Effects left by an injury or burn
Hair loss from illness
Hair loss from hormonal imbalance
Intolerance to anaesthetics
Epilepsy
Serious heart conditions
Diabetes mellitus
A pacemaker
AIDS/HIV, Hepatitis B/C
Pulmonary embolism (PE)
Patchy alopecia
Would a doctor decide for you?
Leave your number: a coordinator asks for photos in a messenger, the doctor says if a transplant will help. No booking, no fee.
You are accompanied from pre-op right through 12 months.
Growth guarantee, lifelong
The bandaging you need and recovery checks
A tailored care routine for both areas involved
We explain washing, sleeping and headwear step by step
A schedule for returning to sport and hair care
Contact with a personal coordinator and photo tracking of progress
Check-up visits at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months
No unexpected costs on the day of surgery.
two more sites
Beard and eyebrow transplants
Zones other than the scalp work the same way: grafts from the back of the head, the FUE method, nothing else changes.
Beard transplant
FUE, no incisions and no stitches
Grafts are taken from the donor area at the back of the head and moved through micro-punctures of about 1 mm; scars are not left. Before the operation the doctor discusses what shape to give the beard, allowing for your facial features. Transplanted hair grows for life and is trimmed and styled as usual.
The surgeon draws the eyebrow shape at the initial consultation: you look through references together and the design takes your facial features into account. The hairs are implanted at the correct angle, so the eyebrows look natural. This also helps where years of plucking stopped growth.
The doctor studies the donor zone, settles on a graft number and shows what outcome it will give. Pricing follows straight after, and the contract keeps it unchanged.
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Patients in Lyon start with a free consultation, where the doctor explains the FUE and DHI methods, answers questions, and builds a personalized surgical plan.
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Scheduling the procedure
Booking involves reserving the surgery date with a deposit — card payment at the clinic or an online transfer — under a medical services contract.
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The run-up to your operation day
Preparation involves a round of pre-operative tests, for which the clinic supplies both the list and clear instructions.
4
Anaesthetic – you will not feel a thing
Local anaesthesia is the method used here, making the whole operation painless.
5
Extracting the grafts, one unit at a time
The surgeon takes grafts from the donor area, either the back of the head or the temples, leaving no stitches behind.
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The new hair goes into the thinning area
At this step the harvested grafts are implanted into the area where hair has thinned or been lost.
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Aftercare, and how the scalp settles down
The final step is recovery, backed by the clinic's supplies and full instructions for fast healing.
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0-10 days — Mending
Scabs come away, swelling goes down, the skin heals day by day
9
2-4 weeks — Shedding of transplanted hairs
An expected phase. What is shed is hair, not follicles
10
3-4 months — Sprouting time
Growth arrives slowly, and you begin to notice it
11
6-9 months — Cover fills in
The hair gains fullness, the volume and the contour are evident
12
12-18 months — What you keep
Full volume and a finished, natural hairline
The doctor will count how many grafts you personally need at the consultation, and explain how the transplant will go
I was having trouble with my hair. I came here and got a hair transplant. The results was awesome thank you
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★★★★★Илья Вячеславович
І experienced hair loss due to COVID and turned to this clinic; they helped me and performed a hair transplant, moving hair from the back of my head to my temples. Thank you.
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★★★★★ilya svyatoslavovich
I traveled to City Medical Centre, where they helped me overcome hair loss through a transplant to the balding areas of my scalp. I am grateful to the doctors for performing the procedure painlessly.
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★★★★★Мансур Касанбаев
I am sharing my experience, because before the operation I went through a pile of reviews myself and was looking for real stories.
I had a beard transplant six months ago. Honestly, in the first days after the procedure I felt a little jittery: my face looked unfamiliar, there was slight swelling and small scabs. In the first couple of months the hair partly fell out, as the doctor had warned.
But now the result truly makes me very happy) From about the 4th month active, even growth began. The transplanted hair took very well, the beard now looks as natural as possible, no bald patches are left. The beard became much thicker and denser, with the shape I had thought about for a long time.
All in all, I recommend the clinic, the doctor was polite and explained everything 👍
The result is definitely worth it!
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★★★★★Dinh Nguyen
I traveled to this clinic and do hair transplant, very good quality and cheap. Good doctors
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★★★★★Hải Cao
I do hair transplant here very good doctors!!
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Queries we hear
We share what people ask before booking
People often say hair implants, but no artificial hair is used. In a hair transplant the doctor moves your own follicles (grafts) from the donor area to thinning or bald areas using FUE or DHI.
Yes. City Medical Centre accepts patients from other cities and countries, and an online consultation is available before you decide.
Prices start at $2,200 (≈ €2,000) for FUE, $2,500 (≈ €2,250) for DHI, and $2,700 (≈ €2,450) for the combined method. Your final price is set after a free graft count and locked into the contract.
The surgery takes a single day, and you go home the same day.
It helps with stable pattern hair loss and a receding hairline when there are enough donor grafts. Some types of alopecia need treatment first; the doctor checks this at the consultation.
No — local anaesthesia keeps the whole procedure pain-free.
FUE means tweezer-based, incision-free graft harvesting. DHI means channel-free implantation with a Choi pen. Combined DHI+FUE uses FUE for harvesting and the DHI pen for implanting.
The doctor calculates the exact number of grafts at a free consultation, based on your donor area.
First comes 0–10 days of healing, then shedding at 2–4 weeks (a normal stage). Growth starts at 3–4 months, density is clear by 6–9 months, and the final outcome shows at 12–18 months.
You get a lifetime hair growth guarantee, written into the contract.
It can all be checked before you pay
The clinic works under a medical licence, care meets the standards and clinical guidelines
of Ministry of Health.
Doctors who will operate: their diplomas and certificates
Open the documents
AKC POMOSHCH LLC
the clinic's legal name
1057746096924
OGRN
7728536872
INN
Lyon and a transplant that takes one day
Hair restoration for patients from Lyon is a single day of work. FUE and DHI avoid cuts and stitches entirely, local anaesthesia is the only medication needed, and the patient goes home afterwards.
Nobody in Lyon pays for the first step. The consultation happens online, the doctor sees photos of the thinning area and gives the graft count from them. The clinic is reachable 24/7, which is a normal part of the day there.
Wounds close within 0-10 days. The shedding of transplanted hairs at 2-4 weeks is a stage, not a loss, and everyone passes through it. From 3-4 months onwards the new hairs start pushing through.
Hair Transplant in Lyon: price and what is included
Prices are in US dollars; the amount in brackets is an approximate conversion to EUR at the rate of 02.10.2026. The final price is fixed in your contract.
Check the name in the Tableau de l'Ordre before you weigh any offer
Lyon counted 519,127 residents in its commune in 2023 and 1,721,721 in the surrounding urban unit. A verifiable record is worth more than another testimonial. In France such a record is kept by the Ordre des médecins, and its national council runs an online directory known as the Tableau de l'Ordre.
The directory searches the roll of practising physicians by surname, by département or by town, and a link on the front page leads to a more detailed search form. Copy the surgeon's full name exactly as it appears in the offer, type it in, and read which specialty is entered beside it. If the entry and the offer disagree, put the discrepancy in an email to the clinic and wait for a written reply before any deposit leaves your account. The Tableau lists doctors registered in France, so if the surgeon in your offer is registered elsewhere, ask the coordinator in writing which register applies.
The council describes its own mission as coordinating the action of the Ordre and defending the principles of medical ethics. Read the directory accordingly: it confirms who is registered and under which specialty, and it does not rate or rank anybody. Consider it the first sieve, and then move on to the paperwork the clinic itself can supply.
On this point the clinic invites scrutiny: its position is that everything can be verified before payment, from the medical licence to the doctors' diplomas. Turn that invitation into a short email. Ask for the licence number, the exact name of the company that delivers the medical services, and the names of the physicians who will examine you. Compare the reply with the paperwork you are later shown.
Who pays, who excuses you from work, and what the estimate must contain
An expert on the official Assurance Maladie forum answered a reader's question in these terms: purely aesthetic interventions fall outside reimbursement, with reparative surgery after prior approval as the exception, and a purely aesthetic operation does not justify a sick-leave certificate because a doctor must be able to justify it medically. For a transplant, assume that the days at home come from your holiday allowance, and tell your employer well ahead of time.
The operation itself happens in one day and is performed under local anaesthesia; you head home afterwards. Still, count the first ten days as a period when the scalp is visibly healing. Ask the coordinator to list in writing what the doctor wants you to avoid during those days, and file the reply next to the contract.
The sum is not quoted in the abstract. It follows the free consultation and the count of grafts, and then it is entered into the contract. Holding a date requires a deposit, payable by card in person or online, and the contract records the terms. Ask for the document as a file or a printout days before you decide, so that you read it calmly rather than in front of a coordinator waiting for your signature.
When you receive it, tick off the inclusions one by one: bandages and healing checks, a plan of care for both the recipient and donor zones, advice about washing, sleeping and covering the head, guidance on resuming sport, a named coordinator with whom you can exchange photographs, and five follow-up checks across the year. Anything absent from your copy should be put to the clinic as a question.
A side-by-side sheet for two second opinions
Holding two opinions is useful only if they can be laid next to each other. Draw a grid: one column per opinion, and identical rows. Suggested rows are diagnosis, method, number of grafts, treated zone, name of the operating surgeon, contents of the price, and the follow-up schedule. Fill it in from the documents rather than from memory of conversations.
The three techniques deserve a short entry in the method row. With FUE the grafts leave the donor zone without cuts or sutures, picked up by forceps. DHI relies on a Choi pen that implants each graft directly, so nobody prepares channels first. A hybrid pairs the first for harvesting with the second for placing, and the clinic ties it to densification where androgenetic alopecia is the cause. A method that is named without a reason is a cue for one more question.
Averages in the comparison tables serve as orientation. Your own figures depend on the zone and on individual features, hence the request: have them stated for your case. One more row is easy to forget, namely whether the surgeon who meets you at the consultation is the surgeon in the theatre. The clinic says yes; any other opinion should answer the same question in writing.
Where the columns disagree, do not hurry to call one of them wrong. Different readings of the same scalp are normal. The real test is whether each side can justify its choice in ordinary language and still hold its ground when you ask about the alternative of waiting or of choosing no operation at all.
Preparing for the online conversation
The first talk takes place remotely, costs nothing and obliges you to nothing. Coordinators answer on WhatsApp and Telegram at any hour. They ask for your phone number and some pictures, a doctor looks at them, and you learn whether a transplant is worth considering. Certainty about eligibility is not a precondition for writing.
Take the pictures near a window in diffuse daylight. Cover the crown, the front, each side and the back, holding the head steadily at each angle. Write two lines about when you noticed the thinning, and whether close relatives have a similar pattern. Name the files with dates so that a later set can be compared fairly.
Know the situations that the clinic lists as reasons to go ahead: androgenetic or diffuse alopecia, bald zones and a receding frontal edge. Know too that its list of obstacles is long. Among the written contraindications are trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder, cancer, an age under 18, intolerance to anaesthetics, epilepsy, serious cardiac conditions, diabetes, a pacemaker, HIV, hepatitis B or C, and pulmonary embolism. Invite the clinic to say which entries, if any, concern you.
Four questions fit on one line each. What is the diagnosis in your own words? Why this method for this scalp? What do you recommend if I wait a year? How is the graft count confirmed? An answer such as 'surgery is not advisable for you' is a legitimate outcome, and the clinic says that its doctor has no reason to send anyone to the operating theatre needlessly.
Twelve months mapped onto a phone calendar
Recovery spreads over a year, and memory compresses it. The clinic's timeline starts with the first ten days, in which the crusts fall away and swelling subsides. Between two and four weeks the new hairs shed, which is expected since the follicles remain in position. New growth begins at three to four months, density returns at six to nine, and the final look settles between twelve and eighteen months.
Create the reminders on the day of the operation: checks after one, three, six, nine and twelve months. Shoot the same angles before every visit and forward the files to your coordinator, who stays with you from the first message until recovery ends.
After each check, jot down in one line what was said, including advice on washing, sleep and headgear, and any item you forgot to raise. By month five, when an acquaintance remarks that nothing has changed, your notebook will show that this stage was foretold.
Where is a French doctor's registration published?
The national council of the Ordre des médecins hosts the Tableau de l'Ordre, searchable by name, département and town, with an advanced search page. Compare the specialty shown there with the one named in your offer.
Will public insurance in France contribute to a transplant done for aesthetic reasons?
An Assurance Maladie forum expert says purely aesthetic interventions are excluded, apart from reparative surgery approved beforehand. If your case is unusual, ask the insurer in writing.
Can I count on a doctor's note for the recovery days?
The same expert states that a purely aesthetic operation does not qualify for sick leave. Plan the days as holiday and check your own employment terms.
What pictures help the doctor most?
Daylight images of the thinning zones from above, the front, both sides and the back, with a short note on when the change began.
How do I know two quotes describe the same work?
Line them up in a grid by method, graft count, treated zone, surgeon, inclusions and follow-up. An empty cell marks the place for a question.
Which papers should stay in my folder after surgery?
Keep the contract, the care plan, the instructions on washing, sleep and headwear, and dated photographs for each of the five checks.
Is it reasonable to ask why a hybrid technique was proposed?
Yes. Ask for the reasoning in writing, since the hybrid approach is tied to densification in androgenetic alopecia and belongs in an individual plan.
Forceps
Minimal
