Dr. Burin Wangjiraniran

Dr. Burin Wangjiraniran (Thai: นพ. บุรินทร์ หวังจิรนิรันดร์) is a Thai plastic surgeon based in Bangkok. Two current affiliations are published for him:

• [Preecha Aesthetic Institute (PAI)](/hospital/preecha-aesthetic-institute/), the Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor) clinic whose doctor directory lists him among its five surgeons. Almost all of the published detail about his surgical work comes from PAI.
• [Phyathai 2 Hospital](/hospital/phyathai-2-hospital/), a private hospital on Phaholyothin Road. On that listing he sits in the Beauty Center, with 'surgery' given as his field and 'plastic and reconstructive surgery' as his special expertise.

When we went through PAI's service pages on 27 September 2026, 41 of the operations in our procedure list had a PAI page naming Dr. Burin as one of the surgeons who performs it. On nearly all of those pages he appears alongside Assoc. Prof. Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon and Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm. Grouped the way patients usually search for them:

• Transfeminine and transmasculine surgery: vaginoplasty using penile inversion or a sigmoid colon segment, revision vaginoplasty, zero-depth vulvoplasty, orchiectomy, facial feminization surgery including tracheal shave, and top surgery for trans men.
• Facial cosmetic surgery: the nose, eyelids and brows, facelift and neck lift, cheek, chin and jaw implants, jaw and chin reduction, buccal fat removal and ear pinning.
• Breast and body: breast augmentation, lift and reduction, implant revision, male breast reduction, liposuction including VASER, full and mini tummy tuck, arm lift and labiaplasty.

Four themes recur on the PAI pages that name him: male-to-female genital surgery with the penile skin inversion technique, facial contouring and FFS, revision breast surgery, and transgender surgery in general. In the published literature he is the first author of a 2015 paper on Preecha's surgical technique for male-to-female vaginoplasty, written with PAI as the affiliation (details under training).

Phyathai 2 Hospital, by contrast, publishes very little about him: no biography, no procedure list, no clinic hours, and online booking on his profile is turned off. The two affiliations may be linked, because PAI carries out every operation that needs general anaesthesia at an affiliated private hospital and its facilities page features Phyathai 2 Hospital. Even so, no published source says which hospital a particular patient of his will be admitted to, so raise it at the consultation.

To request a consultation with Dr. Burin Wangjiraniran, send your details to our patient team. We contact his clinic, come back to you with what it can offer, and treat the appointment as booked only once the clinic has confirmed it.

Medicine. His PAI profile records an MD from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, awarded in 1994.

Two specialties, one after the other. Dr. Burin trained first as a general surgeon, as a resident at Chulalongkorn Hospital. We leave out the years of that residency because the profile prints them as '1997-1990', which cannot be correct. The same profile then lists:

• 2000: FRCS, Board of General Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand
• 2000–2001: plastic surgery residency, again at Chulalongkorn Hospital
• 2002: FRCS, Board of Plastic Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand

The letters printed after his name at the top of the profile are 'M.D., FRCST.' Every step in this record took place in Thailand. None of the sources we opened mentions a fellowship or any training abroad, and we have not assumed one.

Society memberships. Two can be checked on a register kept by the society itself; three rest on PAI's word alone:

• Found on the society's own register: ThPRS, the plastic and reconstructive surgeons' society of Thailand; and the RCST (Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand), whose member search files him under surgery (สาขาศัลยศาสตร์).
• Listed by PAI, not independently checked: ThSAPS, Thailand's aesthetic plastic surgery society; WPATH, which his profile still calls by its former name, HBIGDA; and AsiaPATH, the Asian transgender health association.

Licence. The ThPRS member entry for him gives a Thai medical licence number, 19510. The licence can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th, and our patient team can help you confirm it before you travel. You can run the search yourself. Official lists spell his name differently in English ('Burin Vangjiranirand' at ThPRS, 'BURIN WANGJIRANIRUN' at the RCST), so searching with the Thai name บุรินทร์ หวังจิรนิรันดร์ may be simpler than guessing the transliteration.

Research and conference work. PubMed indexes one article with him as first author: 'Male-to-female vaginoplasty: Preecha's surgical technique', Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, 2015, with Preecha Aesthetic Institute as the affiliation. His PAI profile adds conference talks, including 'Preecha Technique And Modified Penile Skin Inversion Vaginoplasty' (AsiaPATH 2021) and 'Female to Male Phalloplasty' (WPATH 2014, Bangkok). Presenting on an operation is not the same as offering it: PAI's metoidioplasty page states that the clinic does not currently perform phalloplasty.

The career on Dr. Burin Wangjiraniran's PAI profile passes through Thai public hospitals before private practice:

• 1994–1996: general physician, Nakornthai Crown Prince Hospital.
• 2002–2009: plastic surgeon, Department of Surgery, Nopparatrajathanee Hospital (Ministry of Public Health).
• Now: plastic surgeon at PAI, Bangkok. No start date is published.
• Now: doctor in Phyathai 2 Hospital's Beauty Center, special expertise plastic and reconstructive surgery.

His two residencies at Chulalongkorn Hospital are covered under training.

How PAI's team is organised, and why it matters for your request. Five surgeons appear in PAI's doctor directory: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sirachai Jindarak, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Apichai Angspatt, Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm and Dr. Burin. On the service pages checked for this profile, the operating surgeons named are almost always the same trio, Dr. Preecha, Dr. Sutin and Dr. Burin; the jaw augmentation page is the exception and names only Dr. Burin and Dr. Sutin. An enquiry to the clinic about, say, vaginoplasty could therefore be allocated to any of the three. If it is Dr. Burin you want, name him in your request and ask the clinic to confirm in writing who will operate.

Phyathai 2 Hospital and accreditation. The JCI directory gives Phyathai 2 Hospital's address as 943 Phaholyothin Road, and our listing for the hospital records an international patient desk. PAI's Facilities page shows photographs of Phyathai 2 Hospital and ViMUT Hospital, and PAI's About page says its general-anaesthesia operations take place at two affiliated hospitals. On 27 September 2026 our researchers found both hospitals in the Joint Commission International (JCI) directory, accredited under its Hospital Program. Searches of the same JCI directory and of HA Thailand's database found no entry for PAI itself, which is an outpatient clinic without beds of its own. Accreditation looks at how a hospital's systems work, infection control and patient-safety processes among them; it says nothing about the outcome of any single operation.

An area appears below only if a PAI service page names Dr. Burin as one of the surgeons who performs it (pages checked on 27 September 2026). Those pages describe the operation, not his individual method, so each part starts with what is documented about him and then gives general information from our own procedure guides, introduced with 'in general'. Phyathai 2 Hospital lists no procedures for him. Two further PAI pages name him for dimple creation and inverted nipple correction, which we do not yet have guides for.

Male-to-female genital surgery. The documentation is richest here. PAI's penile skin inversion page describes its three named surgeons, Dr. Burin among them, as specialising in male-to-female surgery with that technique, and the sigmoid colon page lists Dr. Preecha, Dr. Burin and Dr. Sutin as the three surgeons who currently carry out the clinic's male-to-female genital surgery. The clinic lists four techniques: penile skin inversion; penile skin inversion with a scrotal skin graft; sigmoid colon vaginoplasty; and secondary sigmoid colon vaginoplasty, a second operation PAI describes for patients whose depth is unsatisfactory or whose vagina has closed after earlier surgery (see revision vaginoplasty). He is also named on PAI's zero-depth vaginoplasty page (vulvoplasty) and its bilateral orchiectomy page.

In general, our vaginoplasty guide treats this as major surgery: a hospital stay of about a week sits inside a trip of three to four weeks, and dilation continues long term so the canal keeps its depth. Penile inversion is the most established method; a colon (sigmoid) segment tends to be reserved for particular circumstances, such as revision or a shortage of skin. Vulvoplasty builds the external anatomy without a canal, so dilation is not part of recovery. Two preparation steps take time. Hair on skin that will line the canal may need permanent removal beforehand, which can take months. And surgeons who work to WPATH's Standards of Care, Version 8, usually look for a minimum of six months on hormones before genital surgery, unless hormones are clinically inappropriate or not wanted. The sources we used do not set out PAI's own rules on letters, hormones or hair removal, so get them in writing before you buy flights.

Facial feminization surgery and tracheal shave. PAI's chin shaving page names Dr. Burin among the surgeons it describes as experienced in facial contouring and FFS. Other PAI pages name him for brow bossing surgery (brow bone reduction and forehead contouring), lower hairline surgery (forehead reduction), chin shaving (chin reduction), jaw contouring and Adam's apple reduction (tracheal shave). In general, facial feminization surgery is built around one person's features. Surgeons often use a CT scan to plan bone work on the forehead, jaw and chin, and some split a long list of procedures into stages rather than extend a single anaesthetic. SOC-8 does not tie facial surgery to any period on hormones, although an individual surgeon may set a rule of their own. Our guide suggests 10–14 days in Thailand, or longer after extensive combined work; most swelling fades over several weeks, but some subtle swelling and numbness can last months.

Top surgery for trans men. PAI's mastectomy page lists Dr. Burin among its surgeons for top surgery. The page describes two approaches: a keyhole or peri-areolar incision for smaller chests, and a double incision with nipple grafts. In general, chest size and skin quality largely decide which technique fits, drains and a compression binder are usual in the first days, and our top surgery guide puts the stay at 10–14 days. PAI's other transmasculine pages tell a different story. For hysterectomy, metoidioplasty, vaginectomy and testicular implants they mention him only for consultations or as an adviser, and PAI says it does not offer phalloplasty at present. We do not list any of those as operations he performs.

Nose surgery. PAI's pages name him for rhinoplasty and nose augmentation, tip rhinoplasty (tip plasty or tip reduction) and alar base reduction. The clinic describes nose augmentation with a silicone implant, ear cartilage or both, the approach covered by our Asian rhinoplasty guide, and says that both nose augmentation and alar reduction are done under local anaesthesia at PAI. That differs from the general pattern in our rhinoplasty guide, where general anaesthesia is usual and local anaesthesia with sedation is mentioned for some minor tip work, so ask which applies to your own plan. In general, a silicone implant and a cartilage graft differ in how they feel, how prone they are to infection and how stable they stay over the years, so talk those differences through. Most visitors plan 7–10 days so the splint can come off and the nose can be checked before flying.

Eyelids and brows. PAI names him for blepharoplasty of the upper and lower eyelids, double eyelid surgery and brow lift. PAI's page on a drooping lid margin (blepharoptosis) names no surgeon, so ptosis correction is not documented for him. In general, expect to be asked about your vision, dry eyes, glaucoma or thyroid eye disease before eyelid surgery, and an assessment of whether a descended brow, or true ptosis that needs muscle repair, is part of the problem. Stitches are typically removed after 5–7 days, and our guide's suggested stay is about the same.

Facelift, neck and facial shape. PAI's pages name him for the full facelift, mini facelift, neck lift, buccal fat removal, cheek augmentation with implants (under general anaesthesia, PAI says), implant-based chin augmentation, jaw augmentation with a jaw implant (the page that names only him and Dr. Sutin) and ear pinning (otoplasty). In general, a facelift treats the lower face, jawline and neck, not the brow or eyelids. Our facelift guide names haematoma (blood collecting under the skin) as the most common significant complication and notes that smokers run a higher risk of skin-healing problems. Our guide suggests 10–14 days in Thailand.

Breast surgery. PAI names him for breast augmentation, breast lift (including a lift combined with implants), breast reduction, breast implant revision and male breast reduction (gynecomastia surgery). Its re-breast augmentation page describes the named team, him included, as specialising in revision breast surgery, and covers revisions for complications such as capsular contracture. Implant removal on its own is not documented for him, because PAI's removal page names no surgeon. In general, plan on implants needing replacement or removal at some point, ask which implant surface is proposed, since certain textured designs carry a higher risk of BIA-ALCL, a rare lymphoma, and leave Thailand with an implant card recording brand, size, type and lot numbers. For timing, our guides put augmentation at 7–10 days in the country and a lift or reduction at 10–14.

Body contouring and labiaplasty. PAI names him for liposuction and VASER liposuction, the tummy tuck and mini tummy tuck, arm lift (done under general anaesthesia, according to PAI) and labia reduction (labiaplasty). In general, liposuction contours the body and is not a weight-loss treatment. Among cosmetic operations, abdominoplasty has one of the higher blood-clot risks, which deserves planning if you face a long flight home; our guide suggests 12–14 days in Thailand. Labiaplasty is a cosmetic gynaecology procedure distinct from gender-affirming surgery, and because over-resection is very hard to reverse, a cautious plan protects you.

If you meet Dr. Burin in person, it will most probably be at PAI's Sukhumvit 55 clinic: PAI says consultations, pre-operative health checks and follow-up visits all take place there. The clinic describes ten consultation rooms, operating rooms for local-anaesthesia procedures and recovery rooms, while anything under general anaesthesia happens at an affiliated hospital. With three surgeons sharing most procedure pages, and the venue depending on the anaesthetic, the questions below concentrate on who operates, where, and what the price covers.

For any operation

• Will you personally carry out every stage of my operation, and who assists you?
• Local anaesthesia at PAI, or general anaesthesia at an affiliated hospital? If a hospital, which one, and who is the anaesthetist?
• Will I stay overnight in hospital, and when can I safely board a flight home?
• What is in the quote (hospital stay, tests, medicines, garments or dilators, transfers, hotel help, follow-up), and what would a revision cost?
• If a problem shows up once I am home, who answers my messages, and will I get an English copy of the operation notes?

Vaginoplasty or vulvoplasty

• Of penile skin inversion, inversion with a scrotal graft, sigmoid colon and zero depth, which suits my anatomy, and why?
• Which letters, hormone history and hair removal does PAI need from me, and by what date?
• How will I be taught to dilate, how often in the early months, and are dilators part of the price?
• If I lose depth or develop narrowing after returning home, what happens next?

Facial feminization

• Which of my features would you prioritise, and would you operate on them together or in stages?
• Is a CT scan needed, and will you accept one taken in my home country?
• Would a tracheal shave or lower hairline surgery sensibly go with the facial work?

Breast revision

• Given my implants and any capsular contracture, what can realistically be corrected?
• Will the implants be exchanged or taken out, and what type would you use?

We found no published figures for how often Dr. Burin performs a given operation or for his complication rates. If those numbers matter to you, ask him directly at this appointment.

PAI's contact and service pages list the following for patients who travel to Bangkok:

• Meeting you at the airport: a PAI driver waits at door 4 of Suvarnabhumi Airport, after customs.
• Getting around: transport linking the airport, hotel, hospital and clinic, and rides within 2 km of the clinic for follow-up visits; depending on the package these are included or optional.
• Somewhere to stay: reservations at nearby partner hotels, at the clinic's corporate rate.
• Language: interpreters for any language, according to PAI. The languages PAI names across its site are Thai, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. Dr. Burin's own profile gives English and Thai.
• Visa paperwork: PAI can write a supporting letter for your embassy or passport office.
• First contact: overseas patients start by email and the attending doctor reviews what they send. PAI says it does not do video consultations.

Our listing for Phyathai 2 Hospital records an international patient desk, but the hospital's page on Dr. Burin says nothing about overseas patients. Ask our team what applies if any part of your care will be there.

How long to stay. Typical stays from our procedure guides: vaginoplasty, roughly three to four weeks; FFS and top surgery, 10–14 days; rhinoplasty and breast augmentation, 7–10 days; eyelid surgery and tracheal shave, 5–7 days. Clearance to fly comes from the surgeon, so a changeable return ticket is sensible. PAI is in the Thonglor area off Sukhumvit Road, and a hotel nearby keeps follow-up trips short. Phyathai 2 Hospital is on Phaholyothin Road rather than Sukhumvit, so if you will be admitted there, ask where it makes sense to stay. Bangkok's heat and humidity last all year and can make compression garments uncomfortable. Our Bangkok guide covers airports, transport and recovery accommodation.

A first request needs only the basics; the clinic will ask for procedure-specific material if it wants it. Send medical information and photos through our booking form or WhatsApp only.

Everyone

• What you want done, and whether you are asking for Dr. Burin by name
• Your travel window and the longest you can stay in Thailand
• Medical conditions, regular medicines, allergies, and any smoking or nicotine use
• Earlier operations, with reports for any surgery on the same area

Vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty or orchiectomy

• Hormones: which ones, when you started and who prescribes them
• Assessment or referral letters, if you already hold them
• Your hair removal so far, if any
• If this is a revision: notes from the first operation, the technique if known, and a brief account of the problem, for example lost depth or narrowing

Facial feminization or tracheal shave

• Front and profile photos of the face in even light, when the team requests them
• Existing CT scans or facial X-rays, and reports from any previous facial surgery

Top surgery

• Any earlier chest operations
• Chest photos, only if asked

Breast revision and other breast surgery

• Your implant card, or the implants' brand, size, type and placement
• The previous operation report and recent breast imaging
• What you want to change: size, shape, firmness, position or symmetry

Nose or eyelid surgery

• Nose photos from the front, side and below, or close-ups of the eyes, when asked
• Past nose or eyelid surgery, injuries, breathing difficulty or eye conditions

Photos and reports let the clinic give a first view on whether an operation might suit you. The plan itself is agreed only after Dr. Burin examines you in Bangkok.