Dr. Chalermpong Chatdokmaiprai

Dr. Chalermpong Chatdokmaiprai (Thai: นพ. เฉลิมพงษ์ ฉัตรดอกไม้ไพร) practises plastic surgery in Bangkok. The services named on his hospital profile fall into two groups: cosmetic nose surgery (rhinoplasty with a cartilage graft, and reduction rhinoplasty) and reconstructive work covering cleft lip and palate, craniofacial reconstruction, and head and neck tumours, both cancerous and benign. His Thai Board diploma in plastic surgery dates from 1997, and the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand (ThPRS) carries his name in its published membership.

Three institutions in the city carry him on their staff pages:

• Bumrungrad International Hospital places him in its Plastic Surgery Center (Building A, 16A) under the specialty heading 'Plastic Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery'.
• Bangkok Hospital Headquarters lists him in its Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction Center and introduces him in English as a plastic surgeon specializing in reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
• At Ramathibodi Hospital, the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, names him as a faculty physician (อาจารย์แพทย์) in the Department of Surgery's Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Every procedure this page attributes to him comes from one list: the five 'Treatments & Services' on his Bangkok Hospital profile. Only the nose items match a procedure guide on this site, so he appears under rhinoplasty; cleft, craniofacial and head and neck surgery are reconstructive fields we do not cover with separate guides. Two further details come from his other profiles: Ramathibodi records a clinical fellowship certificate in craniofacial surgery from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and Bumrungrad records that he speaks Thai and English.

Some things a travelling patient might look for are simply not published. His years of practice, the volume of surgery he does, his fees and his outcomes appear on none of his profiles, and this page does not guess at them. If you would like his opinion on your nose or on a reconstructive problem, request a consultation: we relay it to whichever of his hospitals you pick, and a date exists only after that hospital puts one forward.

Three official pages carry his qualifications: the Bumrungrad and Bangkok Hospital profiles, and the plastic surgery staff list of Ramathibodi's Department of Surgery. Each gives part of the picture, and where they overlap they agree on the years.

• 1991, medical degree. M.D. (แพทยศาสตรบัณฑิต), Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.
• 1995, surgery at Prince of Songkla University. This appears as an 'Education' line on the Bangkok Hospital profile. The line gives only the year and the field, so we do not describe it as a residency.
• 1995, Diploma of the Thai Board of Surgery. The year comes from Bumrungrad; the Ramathibodi staff list writes it ว.ว. ศัลยศาสตร์ แพทยสภา, where แพทยสภา is the Thai name of the Medical Council of Thailand, the body that grants the diploma.
• 1997, plastic surgery at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. Also an 'Education' line on the Bangkok Hospital profile. A separate ThPRS member entry records that he finished plastic surgery training in 1997 (Buddhist Era 2540), without naming the institution.
• 1997, Diploma of the Thai Board of Plastic Surgery. Listed by Bumrungrad, with the Thai form ว.ว. ศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง แพทยสภา on the Ramathibodi staff list.
• Clinical fellowship in craniofacial surgery. Ramathibodi lists a Certificate of Clinical Fellowship in Craniofacial Surgery from the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. No date is given.

Taken together, the record shows board certification in surgery followed two years later by board certification in plastic surgery, plus an overseas craniofacial fellowship whose date is not published. Craniofacial surgery treats the bony framework of the head and face together with the soft tissue over it, which lines up with the craniofacial reconstruction Bangkok Hospital lists among his services.

Professor or Dr.? Ramathibodi's two pages give him different academic ranks: รศ. (Associate Professor) on the Department of Surgery staff list and ผศ. (Assistant Professor) in the faculty's doctor directory. Neither Bumrungrad nor Bangkok Hospital shows a rank, so until one source settles it we use 'Dr.'.

Licence number. The ThPRS directory entry for him shows Thai medical licence number 16705. Treat 16705 as society-reported; it can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th. The register is open to the public, and a name search there before you fly is worthwhile. Our provider research methodology describes which sources we trust and how each fact on this page was dated.

On 27 September 2026 each of his three affiliations was listed as current on the institution's own website. Not one of those pages says when he joined, which leaves the length of each appointment unknown.

Bumrungrad International Hospital. Specialty label: Plastic Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery. Location: Plastic Surgery Center, Building A, 16A. Published clinic time: Wednesday, 17:00 to 20:00. Timetables are revised from time to time, so read that session as an indication of when he usually sees patients there, not as a slot held for you. The profile's 'Medical Experience', 'Research & Publications' and 'Articles' tabs were blank when we looked, and it names no areas of expertise; that is why the procedures on this page are drawn from Bangkok Hospital instead.

Bangkok Hospital Headquarters. His department is the Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction Center, and the page tags him with two specialties, Plastic Surgery and Surgery. It is the only one of his hospital profiles with a list of treatments.

Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. Here his title is อาจารย์แพทย์, a doctor on the faculty's teaching staff, in the Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery (สาขาวิชาศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่งและแม็กซิโลเฟเชียล), Department of Surgery. His ThPRS directory entry uses Ramathibodi's Plastic Surgery Unit as his address. Beyond the title, the university pages we read say nothing about his clinical sessions or teaching there.

Vice President in a ThPRS committee list. The society's website names him as อุปนายก (Vice President) in a Thai-language list of its executive committee. No term of office is stated, and a separately formatted committee panel further up the same page shows a different surgeon as the only vice president. With the two lists disagreeing, we note the listing but do not present it as a post he currently holds.

Research indexed on PubMed. Our researchers matched six PubMed records to him: five through his Ramathibodi affiliation and one Melbourne paper that fits his craniofacial fellowship. Their subjects range from eye-socket spacing in Thai people and a genetic condition that affects how the nose develops, to microsurgical flaps, flap monitoring and nerve repair:

• Normative Data of the Interorbital Distance in Thai Population. *The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery*, 2018.
• The scrotal free flap: first successful clinical application of a free Super-Thin External Pudendal Artery (STEPA) flap for reconstruction of a foot defect. *Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery*, 2018.
• De novo mutations in SMCHD1 cause Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome and abrogate nasal development. *Nature Genetics*, 2017.
• The first Smartphone application for microsurgery monitoring: SilpaRamanitor. *Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery*, 2014.
• Tumescent steroid infiltration reduces postoperative eye closure after craniofacial surgery. *Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery*, 2008.
• The turnover distal epineurial sheath tube for repair of peripheral nerve gaps. *Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand*, 2006.

Papers reveal research interests, not how his patients recover. None of the six concerns cosmetic nose surgery. For a reconstructive problem, though, the topics can help you frame what to ask him.

Bangkok Hospital lists five services for him. The two nose operations come first because they are what most cosmetic patients will ask about. General points about rhinoplasty are drawn from our rhinoplasty guide; they describe how the operation is generally done, not outcomes he has reported.

Rhinoplasty with cartilage graft

The Thai version of his Bangkok Hospital page calls this การผ่าตัดเสริมจมูกด้วยกระดูกอ่อน: augmenting the nose with cartilage. Augmentation is the side of rhinoplasty that adds height or definition, typically to a low bridge or a tip that sits too flat. In general the new height comes either from cartilage taken from the patient's own body, whether the nasal septum, an ear or a rib, or from a manufactured implant, silicone and ePTFE being the usual examples. On his listing the material is cartilage. It says nothing about the donor site, or about whether he also places implants, so both belong on your list of questions. Our guide points out that rib cartilage and implants each involve compromises around infection risk, how the nose feels and how stable the shape stays over time; ask him how those compromises apply to your anatomy.

Reduction rhinoplasty

On the Thai page this is การผ่าตัดลดขนาดจมูก: making the nose smaller. Reduction can take down a hump on the bridge, narrow or straighten it, and refine the tip, and it is sometimes paired with narrowing of wide nostrils. Tell him at the outset if you struggle to breathe through your nose. Correcting the septum in the same operation makes it a septorhinoplasty, and none of his profiles names that operation, so raise airflow with him directly.

Our guide describes augmentation and reduction as the two quite different goals patients commonly bring to a rhinoplasty consultation in Thailand, and his list covers both. Bumrungrad's Plastic (Cosmetic) Surgery Center names augmentation and reduction rhinoplasty among the centre's services too; because his own Bumrungrad profile lists no procedures, that is a statement about the centre, not about him.

Recovery in general. Our guide describes rhinoplasty as usually performed under general anaesthesia, with many patients returning to their hotel on the day of surgery or the following morning. Removal of the outer splint and any stitches generally falls between day 5 and day 10, so trips of 7 to 10 days are common. Most of the visible swelling fades within two to three weeks; the tip, by contrast, keeps settling for 12 months or more. Clearance to fly comes from your surgeon's check, not from a fixed date.

Earlier nose surgery. His profiles do not list revision rhinoplasty. Anyone with a previous nose operation should say so when writing to us. As our rhinoplasty guide sets out, a second operation is normally postponed until at least a year has passed since the first, and it may need ear or rib cartilage; our patient team can ask him whether he takes on revision rhinoplasty cases.

Cleft lip and cleft palate surgery

This appears in Thai as ศัลยกรรมแก้ไขปากแหว่งเพดานโหว่; the English page words it 'Cleft lift and Cleft palate'. This site has no cleft surgery guide, and the listing does not say what ages he treats. Some people whose cleft was repaired in childhood later ask about further work on the lip or nose. If that describes you, set out your previous operations in your request and ask whether your concern sits within his cleft work and which of his hospitals would see you.

Craniofacial reconstruction

This field rebuilds the skull, the facial skeleton and the tissues covering them, whether the problem dates from birth, an injury or earlier treatment. Of his five services it has the clearest link to his documented training (the Melbourne craniofacial fellowship) and to two of his papers, on interorbital distance in Thai people and on eye closure after craniofacial surgery. Useful questions: which imaging he wants to review, whether other specialists would join the planning, and which hospital he would operate in.

Head and neck cancer and benign tumours

The listing names the conditions but not his part in treating them: removing the tumour, reconstructing the area afterwards, or both. If you are seeking reconstruction after cancer treatment, the reports from your oncology team will matter as much as photographs. At centre level, Bumrungrad's Plastic Surgery Center names post-cancer and maxillofacial reconstruction among its services, which describes the centre rather than his individual practice.

Not on his list

Breast surgery, body contouring, eyelid surgery, facelifts and gender-affirming procedures do not appear on any of his profiles. Other surgeons provide many of these at his hospitals; see the surgeons and services we have recorded on the Bumrungrad and Bangkok Hospital Headquarters pages.

Decisions about a nose operation are made in the examination room. Photos let a surgeon sketch an initial idea, but our guide treats any photo-based plan as provisional until the surgeon has assessed your nose, skin thickness and breathing in person in Thailand. That same examination decides whether an operation is advisable for you in the first place.

Because his listing is specific about cartilage but silent on much else, these questions are worth taking to a nose consultation with him:

• I want my nose built up, made smaller, or both. What exactly would you change, and what would you leave as it is?
• You list cartilage grafting. Which donor site would you use for me (septum, ear or rib), and how does that affect healing?
• Would you ever use a silicone or ePTFE implant instead, and why cartilage in my case?
• Would you work through an open or a closed incision, and would a scar be visible?
• My breathing is (or is not) a problem. Would you straighten the septum during the same operation?
• I have had nose surgery before. Is a revision something you take on, and what paperwork from the earlier operation should I bring?
• In which of your hospitals would the surgery happen, and who would be my anaesthetist?
• How many days should I plan in Bangkok, when would the splint come off, and when could I fly?
• Once I am back home, who looks after me, and what should I do if healing seems off?
• Could you itemise what the written quote covers and excludes, including what a second operation would cost?

Reconstructive consultations follow a different logic. Ask him what is realistically achievable, whether treatment would be a single operation or staged, which scans and reports he needs, and which other specialists would take part. If another team is already treating you, ask how information would pass between him and them.

Scheduling is the practical constraint. The only clinic time we found published for him is the Wednesday evening session at Bumrungrad; Bangkok Hospital and Ramathibodi publish no timetable for him. Give our patient team your fixed travel dates early so they can ask which hospital can fit a consultation into your stay.

How much help an overseas patient can expect depends heavily on which of his hospitals you choose, because the three publish very different levels of detail.

Bumrungrad International Hospital gives foreign patients the fullest written account of what it provides. From its address in Wattana district, 33 Sukhumvit 3 (Soi Nana Nua), the hospital states that:

• Before you arrive, coordination physicians and nurses in its Medical Coordination Office (Building A, 10th floor), a service it provides to international patients at no charge, will look over records, estimate prices, book appointments and telemedicine, and liaise with insurance companies and embassies. Once you are discharged, the same office prepares medical reports and fit-to-fly letters and organises follow-up.
• It employs over 130 interpreters. The languages it names include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese, with a further group available on special request.
• Its representative at Suvarnabhumi Airport waits at Exit C, Gate 9 of the international arrivals hall, and a free shuttle van, subject to passenger numbers, carries arriving patients to the hospital or hotels close by. Other complimentary vans pick up from the Nana and Phrom Phong BTS Skytrain stations.
• A Business Center handles hotel and transport bookings, and the hospital works with the Bangkok Immigration Office on visa extensions for both patients and companions.
• Its Plastic Surgery Center works by appointment only and advertises doctor tele-consultations. Whether Dr. Chalermpong himself takes part in those is not stated.

In the accreditors' own records, Joint Commission International's Hospital Program entry dates Bumrungrad's first accreditation to February 2002, and HA Thailand lists an advanced re-accreditation valid until 22 May 2029. Both assess the hospital's systems and safety processes; neither says anything about the result of a particular operation.

Bangkok Hospital Headquarters tells patients it runs an international desk, and that is as far as our records go: no other services for travellers, and no accreditation we have confirmed with an accreditor. If you plan to be seen there, we will find out from the hospital what help comes with the appointment.

Ramathibodi Hospital, at 270 Rama VI Road in Ratchathewi, belongs to Mahidol University's Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital. The plastic surgery division there lists cosmetic operations as well as reconstruction, yet we have not found any service the hospital publishes specifically for overseas visitors. Should Ramathibodi be your preference, we will ask it what arrangements it can make.

Language and time. Bumrungrad names Thai and English as his languages. For a rhinoplasty, the 7 to 10 days in our guide is a starting point: build in some slack in case a follow-up is moved, and choose a changeable return flight. Reconstructive treatment runs to its own timeline, which only he can set once he has assessed you.

If the first message already contains what a surgeon would ask for, you skip a round of back-and-forth. Keep medical details and photos to our own request form or our WhatsApp, and wait for his team to say which pictures it wants before sending any.

Nose surgery (augmentation or reduction)

• Unfiltered photos in even lighting: face on, left and right profiles, and the view from underneath (base view).
• A few lines on what you want different about your nose and what you want to keep.
• Any past nose operation or injury, with the surgeon's notes and the implant type if one was used.
• Breathing difficulty, allergies, the medicines and supplements you take, and any smoking or vaping.
• Your travel window and the number of days you can spend in Bangkok.

Cleft, craniofacial or head and neck problems

• Reports of earlier operations, including dates and hospitals.
• Recent imaging and the radiologist's reports, where available.
• For a tumour: pathology results and letters from your cancer team summarising treatment so far.
• Speech, dental or orthodontic assessments connected with a cleft.
• Photos of the area only if his team requests them.

Everyone

• Health conditions, medicines, allergies and any past reaction to anaesthesia.
• The questions you most want answered.
• Your preferred consultation format and hospital.

Records in Thai or English match the languages Bumrungrad lists for him; for anything else, mention it and we will check how the hospital handles translation.