Lice Treatment & Lice Removal Service in Dallas, Texas

A lice letter came home in the backpack, or something moved at bath time and now you are searching for help at 11 p.m. A LiceDoctors technician can come to your house anywhere from Oak Cliff to Frisco, and same-day appointments are usually available, any day of the week.

No one has to haul an itchy kid across the Metroplex. Your technician looks through the hair of every member of the household, takes care of whoever turns out to have lice before leaving and hands you a short follow-up routine. Do the routine, and a return of lice within 30 days brings the technician back to re-treat at no charge.

Call LiceDoctors Dallas: (214) 382-9727 or book online.

From Oak Cliff to Frisco: where technicians drive

Inside the city, visits happen everywhere from the Uptown and Oak Lawn high-rises and the lofts of Deep Ellum to the Tudor-style houses of the M Streets and Lakewood, the ranch homes of Lake Highlands, the big lots of Preston Hollow and Bluffview, the apartments around Lower Greenville and the Cedars, and the older streets of Oak Cliff around Bishop Arts and Kessler Park. Highland Park and University Park, the Park Cities, are covered too, along with Addison, Farmers Branch, Pleasant Grove and Far North Dallas.

Up north, from Richardson to Denton

The suburbs up this way with pages of their own are Garland and Richardson, Plano, Frisco, McKinney and Allen, Carrollton, Little Elm and Denton. Sachse, which straddles the Dallas and Collin county line, and The Colony, on the eastern shore of Lewisville Lake, belong to the same service area, as do Murphy and Wylie.

East toward Lake Ray Hubbard

Mesquite has a page of its own, and so do Rowlett and Rockwall on Lake Ray Hubbard. Balch Springs, Sunnyvale, Seagoville and Forney are covered too.

South and west, out to the airport

Southwest of downtown, DeSoto and Cedar Hill share a page, and Duncanville and Lancaster are on the route too. Toward DFW Airport, Irving and Grand Prairie each have a page, and Coppell is included.

Up to 30 miles of driving is already inside the hourly rate. North Texas is wide, though, and the far side of Denton or McKinney can sit more than 30 miles from where your technician sets out. Past that line, a two-hour minimum applies, so anyone living near the edge of the map should ask about it while booking.

A Dallas house call, step by step

Booking is a call to the local number or a few minutes on the online form. Same-day slots are usually open, and technicians cover early mornings, evenings, weekends and holidays. Live in a gated complex or a tower with a front desk? Have the gate code or guest instructions ready so your technician is not stuck at the entrance.

Expect an unmarked car in your driveway or a visitor spot in your garage; nothing on it says lice. To the neighbors across the breezeway or the cul-de-sac, it looks like any other guest. Inside, the visit runs in a set order:

1. Heads first, everyone's. Parents, kids and anyone else living there get checked, so no quiet case slips by.
2. Oil and parting. Your technician explains each stage, coats the hair in oil and parts it into sections.
3. The comb-out. Section by section, a professional-grade comb draws lice and eggs out of the hair.
4. Hand work. After the hair dries, leftover nits are picked off strand by strand, the step that keeps a case from starting over.
5. Last pass. Fresh oil and a final comb-through.

Most family visits run 2.5 to 3 hours. A single short-haired child is closer to an hour. Since the bill runs on time rather than heads, get everyone home before the technician arrives, including the teenager who would rather be at practice. Checking them now beats booking a second visit next week.

Before leaving, your technician hands off the aftercare plan. For several days you work olive oil through the hair and comb it out, which catches eggs that were too tiny to spot on treatment day. That plan is also why the cleanup stays small. Off a head, lice give out within a day or two, so skip the carpet shampooing, leave the throw pillows unbagged and do not bother detailing the minivan after a weekend of soccer carpools.

There is nothing to spray in a small apartment or anywhere else, because the method relies on oil and combing alone. Once your technician heads out, nobody at home is contagious, and the kids can go back to being kids.

Six technicians and what Dallas-area parents wrote

Vanessa, Jacklyn, Elizabeth, Marisa, Kellie and Oriana are the technicians serving this area. Elizabeth is the name that comes up most in recent Google reviews from local families.

Adam's review from September 2026 tells the whole arc: lice discovered late at night on a federal holiday, a five-minute phone call with plenty of reassurance, and Elizabeth at the door for the very first appointment the next morning. He wrote that she was thorough, patient and thoughtful through a long list of questions, on treatment day and in the days that followed.

Shannon, also in September 2026, said Elizabeth “took a very stressful time and helped make it feel manageable.” Linda, in August 2026, had her own hair done and called the work thorough and the process comfortable.

Pamela's August 2026 review credits Vanessa with making her “family of 4 feel comfortable and safe” and calls her a true delight. Tricia, in September 2026, praised a technician who was kind and gracious and adapted to her family's needs.

Adam's review in particular describes how much Elizabeth explained along the way. That teaching is built into every visit, so you finish knowing what to look for and how the follow-up combing works.

What Texas law and local districts say about lice at school

Texas has no exclusion law

The Texas Department of State Health Services puts it plainly: no law in Texas addresses excluding a child with head lice from school. DSHS says it lacks the authority to impose a policy on exclusion or inclusion and leaves it to each district to write lice procedures if it chooses. It does not recommend no-nit policies, while recognizing that a district may adopt one as a local option. It also steers districts away from unwarranted mass screenings that eat into class time, and calls head lice a social issue rather than a health threat.

Why a letter comes home from elementary school

What Texas does require is notice. DSHS quotes Texas Education Code §38.031, which has every independent school district adopt a policy for its public elementary schools: once the school nurse learns a child has lice, that child's parent must be told as soon as practicable and no later than 48 hours, and every family with a child in that classroom must hear by the fifth school day. The law includes confidentiality provisions as well.

So a classroom letter means lice turned up somewhere in the room, not necessarily on your child. Treat it as a reason to look tonight; our guide on how to check for head lice and nits shows what you are looking for. And because no Texas law addresses keeping children home over lice, a few nits spotted after treatment are not a statewide reason for absence; your district's own procedure is what counts.

Denton ISD, as one example

District procedures differ. Denton ISD's published head lice regulation, dated May 2025, has the school nurse contact the parent to decide whether the child needs to be picked up. After one treatment, the parent checks in with the nurse to confirm it worked, and on elementary campuses, parents are notified when lice turn up in a classroom.

Dallas ISD, the Park Cities and the suburbs

In Dallas ISD, Richardson ISD, Highland Park ISD and the suburban districts, the campus nurse is the person to ask about what your child needs to return. Districts can set their own readmission criteria, and the state's guidance lists a medicated treatment as one option they may require, so ask whether a LiceDoctors visit meets your school's rule. At a private or charter school, ask the front office. Daycare or preschool? Ask the director before drop-off. Wherever your child goes, tell the nurse the day you find lice, check siblings that night and let the parents in your carpool know.

If a Dallas ISD campus or your boss downtown wants it in writing, email the LiceDoctors office; that note goes out within one business day. Read more in our post on Dallas school lice policy.

Lice season on a North Texas school calendar

Across the US, interest in lice treatment tops out in July and August and sinks lowest in February. The phone tracks the moments kids spend shoulder to shoulder: summer camp, sleepovers, back-to-school and winter break.

In North Texas, school starts in August, while it is still very much summer. That stacks the national peak right on top of the first weeks of class. Because some kids never itch, a case picked up at a July camp or sleepover can ride along into a classroom unnoticed, and the first sign may be one of those Education Code letters, which start whenever a nurse finds a case.

Calls also follow winter break. Relatives fly in through DFW and Love Field, cousins share beds and sofas, and sleepovers stretch across the holidays. Anyone visiting who has lice can be treated on that same appointment, provided they are home for it.

Weather matters less than people expect. Lice live off the warmth of a human scalp and fade within a day or two once they fall off it, so triple-digit afternoons do not bake them off a head, and a January ice storm does not freeze them out. What drives a case is how often heads touch.

Lice removal prices for Dallas-area families

Dallas is billed at LiceDoctors' standard rates. The clock starts at $199 for the first hour; each hour after that costs $179, counted in 15-minute steps, and no appointment is shorter than an hour. There is no per-person charge, so the same hourly rate covers parents, kids and the cousin visiting from Houston.

Travel within 30 miles is part of the rate. On a metro this spread out, a drive past 30 miles is possible, and then the appointment carries a two-hour minimum. Sundays carry a $20 add-on and major holidays can bring an extra holiday fee, so a Saturday or a weekday evening keeps the bill lower if the timing works. Booking the whole household into one visit also beats splitting it across two, since every appointment has its own one-hour minimum.

Say a family in Lake Highlands needs two and a half hours: that comes to $467.50, and a full three hours would be $557. Most households end up paying $450 to $480. HSA and FSA cards are welcome, because lice treatment qualifies for both. To try your insurer as well, request a receipt that carries the diagnosis code and file it yourself; whether your plan pays anything back is up to the plan. Itemized copies arrive by email; the pricing page covers the rest.

What North Texas families get with LiceDoctors

Over 600,000 clients across 20+ years, and a 99.6% success rate once the follow-up plan is done right: that record travels with every technician who parks on a Dallas street. The protocol used in a Mesquite living room or a Frisco kitchen is one that Dr. Madeleine Sowash, MD, FAAD, looked over and approved. Dr. Sowash is a dermatologist who serves as LiceDoctors' Lead Medical Advisor.

Oil, combs and patient hands make up the whole toolkit, with pesticides, heat devices and enzyme products left out, so the treatment is safe for all ages, from a toddler to a grandparent. It also sidesteps the resistance problem. Across the US, lice resistant to the common over-the-counter treatments are widespread, and a comb does not care what a louse is resistant to.

Every visit carries the 30-day guarantee. Beyond the house calls, LiceDoctors has contributed to The Family Place, a Dallas domestic violence shelter. And in a metro where a cross-town drive can eat an afternoon, having the treatment come to you is part of the appeal.

Ready for a technician anywhere in the Metroplex?

From a high-rise in Victory Park to a two-story in McKinney, the next step is the same. Pick up the phone or grab a slot online, and same-day help is usually on the table. Everyone at home gets checked and nobody has to scrub the house afterward. Should lice turn up again inside 30 days while you keep up the routine, the return trip to your address costs nothing.

Call LiceDoctors Dallas: (214) 382-9727 or book online.