Dr. Akaradech Attainsee

Dr. Akaradech Attainsee (Thai: อัครเดช อรรถอินทรีย์) is a Bangkok plastic surgeon whose published clinical focus is gender-affirming surgery for transgender men. Kamol Cosmetic Hospital places him on its female-to-male (FTM) surgical team alongside the hospital's chief plastic surgeon, Dr. Kamol Pansritum. The specialisation list on his Kamol profile contains two operations: phalloplasty using the anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap with microsurgery, and top surgery, which the hospital calls FTM chest reconstruction. The same profile adds reconstructive surgery for transgender men and microsurgical reconstruction as wider interests.

His second base is academic and military. At Phramongkutklao Hospital, the Royal Thai Army hospital in Ratchathewi, the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit of the Division of Surgery names him among its current teaching staff. Phramongkutklao is also where he qualified: he studied medicine at Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, completed general surgery and then plastic surgery training there, and holds Thai board qualifications in both.

At a glance:

• Name: Dr. Akaradech Attainsee, M.D.; the ThPRS member directory spells it Akaradej Attainsee
• Specialty: plastic surgery, with a documented focus on female-to-male gender-affirming surgery and microsurgical reconstruction
• City: Bangkok, Thailand
• Hospitals: Kamol Cosmetic Hospital in Wang Thonglang and Phramongkutklao Hospital in Ratchathewi
• Procedures named on his profile: ALT flap phalloplasty with microsurgery; top surgery (FTM chest reconstruction)
• Consultations: request a consultation and our patient team takes it to the hospital; nothing is confirmed until the hospital replies

This page draws on his English and Thai profiles on the Kamol Hospital website, the staff and alumni pages of Phramongkutklao's plastic surgery unit, the ThPRS member directory and PubMed. Three things overseas patients commonly ask about, his languages, his clinic days and his personal case numbers, are not published on any official page we could open, and we have not filled those gaps with guesses. Our provider research methodology describes how each source is checked.

All of the training on Dr. Akaradech's Kamol profile was done at one institution: Phramongkutklao College of Medicine and its teaching hospital in Bangkok. Years are shown as Kamol publishes them in English; the Thai version of the profile carries the matching Buddhist-era years (พ.ศ.).

• 1999: M.D., Phramongkutklao College of Medicine (พ.ศ. 2542 on the Thai profile).
• General surgery training at Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, leading to the Thai Board of General Surgery in 2005 (วุฒิบัตรศัลยกรรมทั่วไป, พ.ศ. 2548).
• Plastic surgery training in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Division of Surgery, Phramongkutklao Hospital. The unit's alumni page places him in class 16 (รุ่นที่ 16).
• 2009: Thai Board of Plastic Surgery (วุฒิบัตรศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง, พ.ศ. 2552).

In Thailand, a วุฒิบัตร (board diploma) certifies that a doctor has completed specialist residency training in that field. Two diplomas in this sequence mean he trained as a general surgeon before specialising in plastic surgery. Neither is a qualification in gender-affirming surgery as such; for someone considering phalloplasty or chest reconstruction, the more direct published evidence is Kamol's listing of him on its female-to-male team and the two operations named on his profile.

Society memberships. ThPRS, the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand, has him on its public member directory under the spelling Akaradej Attainsee, with an address at the Division of Surgery, Phramongkutklao Hospital. Because the society says that directory holds members only, we treat this membership as verified. Four more bodies appear on the Kamol profile: the Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand (ThSAPS), the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, the Medical Association of Thailand and the Thai Medical Council. We could not check these against the bodies' own lists (ThSAPS, for one, publishes none), so they are shown as stated by the hospital.

Licence check. No licence number appears on the official profiles we read; the licence can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th. Patients can run that register search themselves before committing to surgery with any doctor in Thailand.

Two institutions publish a current role for him.

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Wang Thonglang. Kamol names him as a plastic surgeon within its gender-affirming surgery service for female-to-male patients, working alongside Dr. Kamol Pansritum. His profile speaks of more than 15 years of collaboration with Dr. Kamol; Kamol gives no start date, so we do not state one. His card sits in Kamol's doctors directory beside the hospital's other plastic surgeons and the non-plastic specialists on its gender-affirming team.

Phramongkutklao Hospital, Ratchathewi. The Division of Surgery website lists him among the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit's current teaching staff (อาจารย์ประจำหน่วย), separate from the retired advisers shown above them, and gives his Royal Thai Army rank as Colonel (พ.อ.). The unit as a whole publishes a broad reconstructive and cosmetic remit: cleft lip and palate, craniofacial and facial bone surgery, head and neck tumours, breast reconstruction, burns, microsurgery, hand surgery and cosmetic surgery. That list belongs to the unit, not to him personally, and the unit's outpatient page showed no readable clinic days when we checked.

Research. Seven PubMed papers from 2020 to 2026 include him as an author with a Phramongkutklao or Kamol affiliation. Two bear directly on surgery for trans men:

• *Urethral reconstruction with peritoneal graft in phalloplasty for male transgender* (Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 2022). Kamol Cosmetic Hospital is among his listed affiliations on this paper.
• *Nipple reduction using the mushroom flap technique for male transgender* (JPRAS Open, 2024), co-authored with Dr. Kamol Pansritum and cited in the academic contributions on his Kamol profile.

The remaining five carry a Phramongkutklao affiliation: dressings for skin-graft donor sites (International Wound Journal, 2026), 3D preformed titanium mesh for orbital blowout fractures (Archives of Craniofacial Surgery, 2026), incision tools for lower eyelid blepharoplasty (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, 2024), the anatomy of the supraorbital nerve (Asian Journal of Surgery, 2022) and upper eyelid crease proportions in Asian eyelids (Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2020). A research topic is not a service list, so eyelid, orbital and other facial operations are not attributed to him here.

Official pages document two procedure areas for Dr. Akaradech. Under each, the facts about him come first, followed by general guidance taken from our procedure guides.

ALT flap phalloplasty with microsurgery

Of the two, phalloplasty is the one his profile describes most fully. It refers to expertise in female-to-male procedures such as phalloplasty with the ALT flap technique and microsurgical reconstruction, and it lists ALT flap phalloplasty with microsurgery under his specialisation.

In general, phalloplasty creates a penis from a flap of the patient's own skin and tissue. Our phalloplasty guide compares the two usual donor sites. A radial forearm free flap gives thin tissue with generally better sensation, at the cost of a visible forearm scar that is covered with a skin graft. An anterolateral thigh flap, taken from the front and outer thigh, leaves the forearm untouched, but its tissue is often thicker and sensation may be less. Microsurgery, broadly, is surgery under magnification to join small blood vessels and sometimes nerves.

Since the thigh flap is the method named for him, the trade-off to talk through is scar position against tissue thickness and sensation. If sensation or a slimmer result matters most to you, say so early; he can explain how your own thigh tissue bears on that choice.

Expect a staged plan, usually two or three operations over a year or more. Depending on your goals, the stages may include urethral lengthening to urinate standing, scrotoplasty, vaginectomy, glansplasty to shape the tip and, last of all, erectile and testicular implants for those who want them. Many patients have a hysterectomy beforehand or early in the sequence, and some decide against urethral lengthening to lower the risk of complications. If the new urethra is to be made from donor-site skin, that area usually needs permanent hair removal before surgery.

Complications are relatively common with phalloplasty, and most involve the urethra: fistulas (leaks) and strictures (narrowing), which can need further operations. Partial or complete flap loss, donor-site problems, infection, bleeding, blood clots, reduced sensation and, later on, implant problems are also possible. His 2022 paper concerns urethral reconstruction using a peritoneal graft, so if lengthening is part of your plan, ask which reconstruction method he would suggest for you and why. Our guide describes a first-stage hospital stay of commonly one to two weeks, with flap monitoring, bed rest, a catheter and drains, inside roughly three to four weeks in Thailand.

Top surgery (FTM chest reconstruction)

Top surgery is the second specialisation on his Kamol profile. Broadly, it removes breast tissue, tightens or removes skin, and resizes or moves the nipples to give a flatter chest with a masculine contour, often with liposuction at the sides. On its own top surgery page, Kamol names a periareolar incision (U-shaped scar), a concentric incision (O-shaped scar) and double-incision surgery with free nipple grafts.

Which technique fits is mainly a question of chest size and skin. In general, double-incision top surgery is used for most medium and larger chests and leaves horizontal scars along the lower border of the chest muscle, while periareolar top surgery is for smaller chests with good skin elasticity. Smaller-incision techniques leave less scarring, but fewer people are suitable for them and revisions may be more frequent. Our guide describes a general anaesthetic, an operating time of typically two to four hours, and a hospital stay of no nights or just one. Afterwards a compression binder is often worn for several weeks; drains usually come out at around one week, which is also when nipple grafts are checked; and raising the arms high or lifting is restricted for a few weeks.

Risks include bleeding and haematoma, seroma (fluid collection), infection, partial or total loss of nipple grafts, altered nipple and chest sensation, contour irregularities or 'dog ears' at the ends of the scars, prominent scars and the need for revision. Because his 2024 paper with Dr. Kamol is about nipple reduction in trans men, nipple size, graft placement and sensation are reasonable topics to raise with him directly.

Procedures not documented for him

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital's female-to-male service goes beyond his two procedures. The hospital also lists metoidioplasty, urethral lengthening, scrotoplasty with optional testicular implants, gender-affirming hysterectomy, facial masculinization and voice masculinization. Those are hospital services; his own profile does not claim them, so this page does not attribute them to him, and the same goes for feminizing and general cosmetic surgery. Kamol's profiles name other specialists on its gender-affirming team, including urologist Dr. Ravis Tivitmahaisoon, whose listed expertise includes urethral lengthening, and gynaecologists Dr. Apichart Jaideecharoen and Dr. Pittaya Vapattanawong, whose profiles cover removal of the uterus and ovaries in trans men. Kamol does not publish how the stages of a phalloplasty are divided among these surgeons, so ask who will carry out each operation in your plan.

A first consultation settles the essentials: whether surgery is suitable for you at this point, which operation and technique, and how the stages would be spread out. For staged surgery of this kind, a written list of questions helps you leave with clear answers.

Discussing ALT flap phalloplasty:

• Why do you recommend a thigh flap rather than a forearm flap for me, and how will the thigh look once it has healed?
• What does the microsurgery involve in my operation, and do you plan to connect a nerve for sensation?
• Will my plan include urethral lengthening? Which reconstruction method would you use, and how would a fistula or stricture be managed?
• How many operations do you expect, in what order and with what gaps between them? Which stages fall on which trip to Bangkok?
• If I need hair removal on the donor area, how long before surgery should it be finished?
• Which Kamol specialists, for example the urologist or gynaecologists, would be involved, and who is the responsible surgeon at each stage?
• How many phalloplasties do you perform in a year, and what are your own complication and revision rates?
• Once I am back home, who looks after a complication, and will I be given English operation notes after every stage?

Discussing top surgery:

• Periareolar, concentric or double incision: which suits my chest, and why?
• If free nipple grafts are used, what size and position are you planning, and what could put the grafts at risk?
• Will there be drains, when do they come out, and how long do I wear the binder?
• May I see results from patients whose chest was similar to mine?
• If I end up with contour irregularities or dog ears, how and when would they be corrected?
• What remote follow-up do you offer once I am home?

Eligibility and documents. Many surgeons base their criteria on WPATH's Standards of Care, version 8 (SOC-8). In general, SOC-8 does not make hormone therapy a precondition for chest masculinization. For phalloplasty it looks for a documented assessment, capacity to consent, well-managed health and, unless it is inappropriate or not wanted, a period of hormone therapy. Stopping smoking is essential for the flap to survive. Hospitals and surgeons can add their own requirements, so ask Dr. Akaradech's team which letters and records they want.

Costs and the plan, in writing. Request a written quote for every stage, including how complications would be managed and who pays for that. Phalloplasty totals vary with the number of stages, urethral lengthening, hospital nights and implants; top surgery prices vary with technique, chest size, liposuction, anaesthesia, hospital nights, binders and follow-up. Any plan or estimate sent before he has examined you in person is provisional.

For patients travelling to Thailand, the support documented around Dr. Akaradech's gender-affirming surgery belongs to Kamol Cosmetic Hospital. Our Phramongkutklao Hospital profile records no international patient service there, and the hospital's surgical pages show no clinic days for him, so Kamol is the documented route for overseas patients. Our patient team will confirm where a consultation would be held.

The hospital

• Address: 1223 Lat Phrao 94, Inthraphon Road, Wang Thonglang, Bangkok 10310.
• JCI: listed as accredited in the Joint Commission International directory when we looked on 27 September 2026.
• Theatres: the operating floor is the 4th. Kamol's facilities page mentions a microsurgery operating room and an endoscopic operating suite there, and the Thai version of the page counts seven operating rooms. Next to them is a recovery room with 11 monitored beds. Kamol does not say which room is used for which operation; as the phalloplasty on his profile is microsurgical, you may want to ask about that theatre.
• Rooms: inpatient rooms on the 5th and 6th floors, medical residence apartments for recovery stays on the 7th floor, and consultation rooms on the 3rd floor.
• Diagnostics: laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, ECG and cardiac stress testing in the hospital's 2nd-floor wellness and diagnostic centre.

What Kamol offers international patients

• Online video consultations with its surgeons, which Kamol describes as secure, for people not yet able to travel. Our team checks whether Dr. Akaradech is available for one.
• A named representative to coordinate each consultation request, plus an international phone line for questions.
• Help booking hotels and airport transfers, and a limousine for the departure trip to the airport.
• After the ward, a move to K Garden, Kamol's own serviced apartments close by; aftercare there covers wound dressing, stitch removal and follow-up by the surgeon.
• Extension of a medical treatment visa, which the hospital says it can arrange.
• Payment by bank transfer, by credit or debit card, or in cash in THB, EUR, USD, AUD, GBP or CAD.

Languages. We found no official statement of the languages Dr. Akaradech speaks. According to Kamol's contact page, the hospital team works in English and Thai and can arrange interpreters for other languages, so mention any interpreter needs in your consultation request.

Length of stay. Our guides give, in general, around three to four weeks in Thailand for the first phalloplasty stage and shorter stays for later stages spaced several months apart, which means planning more than one trip. For top surgery, 10 to 14 days is common, so that drains are out and nipple grafts have been checked before the flight. Either way, the surgeon clears you to fly, and a return ticket you can change is worth having. After chest surgery, bring loose shirts that open at the front and plan for someone else to lift heavy bags.

Send health details and photos only once Dr. Akaradech's team has asked for them. Gathering them in advance, though, saves time when the hospital responds.

For every request

• A short note of your goals and the operation you are considering.
• Medical history: ongoing conditions, bleeding or clotting disorders, allergies and every past operation, particularly chest, pelvic, genital or earlier gender-affirming surgery.
• Medicines and supplements, including hormone therapy: the drug, the dose and when you started.
• Honest information on smoking and nicotine, which matters a great deal for flap surgery.
• Height and weight.
• Copies of any assessment or referral letters you hold, so the hospital can tell you what is still missing.
• The dates you could travel, and whether you can stay as long as the procedure usually requires.

For phalloplasty

• Whether you want urethral lengthening and to stand to urinate, and whether implants are part of your longer-term plan.
• Any previous hysterectomy, oophorectomy, vaginectomy or metoidioplasty, with dates.
• How far you have got with hair removal on the thigh donor site.
• Photos of the thigh donor area, if requested.
• Operation notes for any stage done at another hospital.

For top surgery

• Front and side chest photos in good light, if requested; chest size and skin elasticity largely determine which technique is suggested.
• Details of any earlier chest surgery.
• Your preferences on scar placement and nipple size, to talk through at the consultation.

Keep your own copy of everything, and ask for English operation notes after each operation to give to your doctor at home.