Dr. Kittichai Sipiyarak

Dr. Kittichai Sipiyarak (Thai: นพ.กิตติชัย สิปิยารักษ์) practises plastic surgery at Yanhee International Hospital, a privately run hospital in Bang Phlat, a district of Bangkok. According to the hospital's English profile he joined Yanhee in 2010, after working as a plastic surgeon at Prapokklao Hospital from 1996 until that year. Our searches found no current practice for him beyond Yanhee, so everything on this page concerns his work there.

The Thai-language profile places him in two units at once: ศูนย์ศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง, which is the hospital's plastic surgery centre, and a unit that exists for people dissatisfied with cosmetic surgery performed at another clinic or hospital. Consistent with that listing, his stated interests include cutting out and suctioning silicone and other injected substances from the face, body and hips. Corrective work of this kind is what separates his profile from one built only around first-time cosmetic operations.

Grouped by body area, the operations that official Yanhee pages connect with him are:

• Face: building up and restructuring the nose, chin augmentation and reshaping, forehead augmentation, under-eye fat removal combined with tear trough augmentation, and the Endotine face lift. Yanhee's eyelid surgery page also includes him among its eyelid surgeons.
• Breast and chest: breast augmentation and reshaping, plus customised pectoral (chest) implants.
• Body: liposuction; abdominal liposuction and fat excision that creates the vertical “11-line” groove; arm lift; thigh lift.
• Neck: Adam's apple reduction (tracheal shave), from Yanhee's service page for that operation.

In outline, his record reads: medicine at Chiang Mai University (Doctor of Medicine, 1990); Thai specialist diplomas (วุฒิบัตร), first in surgery (1994) and then in plastic surgery (1996), the second after plastic surgery training at Siriraj Hospital; and member entries we could see ourselves at the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, ThPRS and ThSAPS. On language, the English profile names Thai and English.

To see him, send a request through our patient team for an online consultation or an appointment at Yanhee in Bangkok. The hospital's service pages note that the operating surgeon is settled at the consultation stage, so put his name in your request if he is the surgeon you want. We have left out prices, reviews and outcome figures: no official source we used gives verified figures of that kind for him, and where a fact rests only on the hospital's word, we flag it.

Dr. Kittichai's schooling and training appear on Yanhee's English-language and Thai-language profiles alike. The timeline below combines the two and keeps institution names exactly as the hospital prints them, including spellings we could not match to an official name.

• 1990: Doctor of Medicine, Chiang Mai University.
• 1994: general surgery. Training in the specialty at an institution the English profile calls “Prapokklao University”, and, that same year, a วุฒิบัตร (Thai specialist diploma) whose field is given as สาขาศัลยศาสตร์, that is, surgery.
• 1996: plastic surgery. Siriraj Hospital, where he completed specialty training in the field, then a second วุฒิบัตร, this time in สาขาศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง (plastic surgery). Neither profile names the body that awarded the two diplomas.
• 1996: Taiwan. International training and postgraduate courses at “Changgum Medical School”, the spelling used on both Yanhee profiles.
• 2011: Seoul. Microsurgical breast reconstruction training in ASAN Medical Center's plastic surgery department (University of Ulsan College of Medicine), noted on the Thai profile as a completed programme.
• 2011: breast implant workshop. A live-surgery workshop under the Natrelle implant brand, covering basic and advanced silicone breast augmentation.
• Undated: male-to-female surgery. Fellow training in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, listed twice: with Dr. Suporn at “Smitivetcholburi Hospital” and with Dr. Kuldech at “Thonburirajyindee Hospital” (both as published).

The Thai profile adds further meetings and courses that it does not present as qualifications: a rhinoplasty meeting in Seoul in 2012, two meetings in 2017 (one on innovations in plastic and aesthetic surgery, one on Korean-style facial contouring), and undated training in restructuring the nose.

Read in sequence, the record moves from general surgery to plastic surgery two years later, and then to courses that match the work Yanhee lists for him now: breast implants, nose surgery and facial contouring. Two entries need context. The 2011 Seoul programme was in microsurgical breast reconstruction, yet reconstruction is not among the procedures Yanhee links to him, so ask directly if that is what you need. Likewise, his male-to-female fellowship training is documented, but no current Yanhee page we found lists him for genital gender-affirming surgery; his documented gender-affirming work is Adam's apple reduction.

Each entry in the education list on this page links to the Yanhee page it came from. Our provider research methodology page explains how facts like these are found and checked.

Prapokklao Hospital, 1996–2010. Yanhee's English profile lists Dr. Kittichai as a plastic surgeon at Prapokklao Hospital from 1996, the year of his plastic surgery diploma, until 2010. The Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand once ran an online directory; last edited by the society in 2017 and now readable only as an archived copy, it placed him in the surgery group of Prapokklao Hospital in Chanthaburi and also at Yanhee. Yanhee's own profile gives 2010 as the end of the Prapokklao post.

Yanhee International Hospital, since 2010. He is a current plastic surgeon at Yanhee, listed in its plastic surgery centre and its revision centre. Yanhee's English page on pectoral implants credits him as the doctor who medically reviewed it and shows him under “Available doctors” for that operation. His name also appears in the “These plastic surgeons at Yanhee perform…” boxes on the hospital's pages for eyelid surgery, liposuction, arm lift, thigh lift and Adam's apple shaving.

Professional societies. We keep the memberships we could confirm on a society's own records apart from those only the hospital states:

• Found on the societies' own records: ThPRS, in full the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand, whose website carries a member entry for him; ThSAPS, the aesthetic plastic surgeons' society named above, via an archived copy of its old online directory; and, through its online member search, the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, where plastic surgery is shown as his field.
• Stated on Yanhee's profiles only: the Association of General Surgeons of Thailand; the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), named on the English profile, though his name was absent from the Thailand listing of the ISAPS surgeon finder in our 27 September 2026 search; the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS); and a Thai tumour society (สมาคมเนื้องอกแห่งประเทศไทย). Under its credentials heading, the English profile further names the Medical Council of Thailand, which is the body that licenses doctors in the country.

Talks and presentation topics. The Thai profile lists him as a speaker on four subjects: a tear trough implant (a Siriraj academic meeting, 2023), alar nasi reduction, meaning narrowing of the nostrils (RASP2024), customised pectoral implants (PRS Korea, November 2024) and Endotine for lower face and neck lift (an international meeting at Chulalongkorn University, 22 June 2026). The English profile prints three related titles under a “Publications” heading, “Removal of Nasal Siliconoma & Rhinoplasty”, “Tear Trough Augmentation” and “Alar Nasi & Nostril Reduction”, with no journal or year. Searching PubMed for his surname brought up no papers by him, so we treat these as presentation topics rather than published research. They show what he has chosen to speak about; they are not evidence of results.

Every area below rests on an official Yanhee source, whether his Thai profile's treatment-experience list, his stated special interests, or one of the hospital's service pages where his name appears in the surgeon list for the operation. The general notes under each are drawn from our procedure guides and explain how the operation usually works; they do not describe his personal technique or results, which only a consultation with him can give you; only his examination can settle whether an operation is right for you. Yanhee's Thai page for him additionally carries case-count estimates supplied by the hospital for several of these areas. We do not repeat them, because they are self-reported and we could not verify them; ask him directly how often he performs the operation you are considering.

Nose augmentation and structural rhinoplasty

Yanhee's Thai profile lists nose augmentation and restructuring of the nose (เสริมและปรับโครงสร้างจมูก) among his treatment areas, and nose work recurs across his record: a Seoul rhinoplasty meeting in 2012, training in nasal restructuring, a talk on narrowing the nostrils, and a listed title on removing silicone from the nose combined with rhinoplasty. See our guides to Asian rhinoplasty and rhinoplasty.

As general background, an augmentation builds height along the bridge or projection at the tip. The graft can be cartilage borrowed from the patient's own septum, ear or rib, or else a manufactured implant, typically silicone or ePTFE. Silicone, ePTFE and rib cartilage each strike a different balance between infection risk, natural feel and durability over the years, so ask Dr. Kittichai what he would use in your nose and his reasons. Structural surgery goes further and reshapes the cartilage framework. Our rhinoplasty guide describes general anaesthesia as the norm, removal of the external splint somewhere between day 5 and day 10, most visible swelling going down over two to three weeks, and the tip continuing to settle for a year or longer. For time in Thailand, both nose guides give 7–10 days as a typical plan.

Correcting earlier cosmetic surgery and removing injected silicone

This is the area Yanhee points to most directly: he is listed at the hospital's centre for revising cosmetic surgery done elsewhere, and his stated interests include taking out silicone and other injected substances from the face, body and hips by excision and suction. Yanhee does not say which kinds of revision he accepts, so describe your situation fully when you ask.

Removal of injected substances is not yet covered by a guide on our site. What our rhinoplasty guide does say, in general terms, is that a nasal implant can become infected, move or work its way out through the skin (extrusion), and may then have to be removed; that the usual advice is to let a full year or more pass between a nose operation and any correction, giving swelling time to subside; and that a second operation tends to be more involved, because scar tissue lengthens it and cartilage may have to come from the ear or rib. For a revision nose operation, our revision rhinoplasty overview puts the usual time in Thailand at 10–14 days. At a consultation, ask how much of the material he expects to remove, whether more than one operation may be needed, and how the area is likely to look afterwards.

Under-eye bags and tear troughs

The Thai profile lists removal of under-eye fat bags with tear trough augmentation (ตัดถุงไขมันใต้ตา และเสริมปิดร่องใต้ตา), and his name is on the surgeon list of Yanhee's eyelid surgery page. His 2023 talk was about a tear trough implant, but the profile does not say which method he uses for which patient, so ask whether your plan relies on repositioned fat, an implant or something else. Our guides to lower eyelid surgery and blepharoplasty cover the operation in general.

Speaking generally, lower lid surgery trims or moves the fat pads that create under-eye bags and may tighten the lower lid skin. The fat is approached either from outside, via an incision tucked under the lashes, or from inside the eyelid (the transconjunctival approach), in which case no skin scar is visible. Our blepharoplasty guide puts stitch removal at roughly five to seven days and says bruising mostly clears within one to two weeks, which fits the 5–7 days in Thailand the guide suggests. Its list of possible problems includes dry or irritated eyes, temporarily blurred vision, asymmetry and the lower lid being pulled downward; if severe pain or a loss of sight develops after the operation, get urgent medical help.

Chin and forehead augmentation

Chin augmentation and reshaping (เสริมและปรับรูปคาง) and forehead augmentation both appear in his treatment-experience list, alongside a 2017 meeting on Korean-style facial contouring. Our chin augmentation page does not yet carry a full guide; for now it gives 5–7 days in Thailand as the usual stay. We have no forehead augmentation guide, and the forehead contouring category on our site covers forehead reduction, which is a different operation and not one Yanhee lists for him.

Patients combining chin work with a nose operation often want to know how the two will change the side profile together and whether one session can cover both. Ask him which material he uses for the chin or forehead, where the incision will go, and how the result is checked before you fly home.

Facelift with Endotine fixation

His treatment-experience list names the Endotine face lift, and in June 2026 he spoke on Endotine for lower face and neck lifts. Endotine is a brand of fixation device used in lifting operations; ask how he uses it, which facelift technique it forms part of, and whether your plan includes the neck. Our facelift guide explains the operation.

In general terms, the operation raises and resets the sagging tissues along the jaw and lower cheeks, often taking in the neck, and trims loose skin; our guide is clear that it leaves the forehead, eyelids and fine surface wrinkles unchanged. The serious complication it names as most common is a haematoma, blood pooling beneath the skin, which may have to be drained; infection, weakness of the facial nerves (usually temporary), numbness and noticeable scars are also possible. Smokers heal less reliably, so stopping well ahead of surgery matters. Stitch removal is staged across about the first week; for the trip as a whole, our guide recommends 10–14 days in Thailand.

Breast augmentation and reshaping

The Thai profile lists breast augmentation and reshaping (เสริมและปรับรูปทรงหน้าอก), and his 2011 training included a live-surgery workshop on basic and advanced silicone breast augmentation. See our breast augmentation guide.

As general guidance, breast augmentation uses a silicone or saline implant, or occasionally fat moved from elsewhere in the body, to enlarge the breasts or improve their shape and symmetry. Our guide sets out the decisions involved: a round or teardrop (anatomical) implant; a smooth or textured shell, bearing in mind that a rare lymphoma, BIA-ALCL, is linked more often with certain textured implants; an incision site, whether the crease under the breast, the border of the areola or the armpit; and a pocket either above the pectoral muscle or partly below it. Our guide also warns that implants are not permanent, so replacement or removal is often needed at some stage, and that where the nipple sits low, an implant on its own will not lift it; a breast lift may be suggested alongside or instead. His profile covers reshaping too without itemising which operations that means, so if drooping is your main concern, ask what he would suggest. A typical stay in Thailand is 7–10 days; strenuous exercise usually waits for around six weeks, and the hospital should give you an implant card to keep.

Customised pectoral implants

Customised pectoral implants are one of his stated interests. Yanhee's English pectoral implants page shows him under “Available doctors” and credits him as its medical reviewer, and he presented on the subject at PRS Korea in November 2024. We have no guide to pectoral implants yet. Ask whether the implant is made to your measurements, whether that affects how far ahead your surgery date must be set, and how recovery limits exercise and travel.

Liposuction and abdominal etching (the “11-line”)

Yanhee's liposuction page names him among its liposuction surgeons, and his Thai profile lists abdominal liposuction and fat excision with a “ร่อง 11” (Sexy Line) groove, vertical lines on the abdomen named after the number 11. See our liposuction guide and our abdominal etching page, whose full guide is still being written.

In general, liposuction reshapes rather than slims: our guide calls it a contouring procedure, not a weight-loss treatment, and says it tends to suit people who are near a stable weight. It describes high-definition sculpting around the muscle contours as an option for suitable lean patients, which is the territory of the 11-line groove. How much fat can come out in one sitting is capped by the surgeon, based on body weight and general health, and a larger plan may be spread over more than one operation. A compression garment is normally worn for several weeks, and the final shape appears as swelling fades over three to six months. Risks include dents or uneven contours, fluid collections, numbness and, less often, blood clots and fat embolism; walking early and agreeing a clot-prevention plan before the flight both matter. The guide gives 7–10 days in Thailand, with a longer stay after large-volume or combined operations.

Arm lift and thigh lift

Yanhee's service pages for the arm lift and the thigh lift both list him. These operations deal with loose skin, which our liposuction guide notes that liposuction does not treat. Because skin is cut away, a lift leaves a longer scar than liposuction, so ask where it will lie, whether liposuction will be added, and how stable your weight should be beforehand. For either lift, our pages put the usual time in Thailand at 10–14 days.

Adam's apple reduction (tracheal shave)

His name appears in the surgeon list on Yanhee's service page for Adam's apple shaving, known medically as chondrolaryngoplasty. Our tracheal shave page usually allows 5–7 days in Thailand. Ask where the incision will be placed, how the surgery could affect your voice, and whether it can be combined with other feminizing procedures. Gender-affirming care at Yanhee is organised through its Pride Center, a separate unit; his profile does not place him there, and our Yanhee hospital profile lists the surgeons documented there.

Online or in person. A first conversation with him can take place online from home, or face to face at Yanhee once you have arrived. Separately, Yanhee offers a free online pre-assessment that one of its international coordinators reviews. Whatever you agree remotely is a draft: pictures cannot show how old implants, scar tissue or injected filler feel under the skin, so for revision work in particular, the real plan is made once he has examined you in Bangkok.

Clinic days. His English profile gives clinic hours of 10:00–17:00 from Sunday to Thursday and on Saturdays, with no clinic on Fridays or on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. Because timetables can shift, we check the exact date with Yanhee before confirming anything to you.

Questions to raise whatever the procedure:

• Which parts of the operation will you do personally, and who will give the anaesthetic?
• Which technique, and which implant, graft or other material, do you suggest for me, and why?
• How often do you do this operation for patients in my situation?
• What is in the package price? According to Yanhee, packages for most cosmetic operations normally bundle the doctor's fee with medicines, the operating theatre, a room, nursing and food; ask for that list in writing, together with anything left out.
• If a revision were ever needed, what would happen and what would it cost?
• When is it likely to be safe for me to fly?
• What aftercare is there once I leave Thailand? Yanhee's answer is contact by email, with progress photos passed on to the doctor.

For revision surgery or silicone removal: ask what can realistically be improved given what was done before and with which material, whether the work should be staged, and how long to wait after your last operation.

For under-eye surgery: raise glaucoma, thyroid-related eye problems, dryness of the eyes or poor sight if any apply to you, since these bear on safety; ask, too, what will be used to fill the tear trough.

For breast or chest implants: discuss implant type, surface, size, placement and incision, how a silent rupture would be picked up later (the U.S. FDA recommends periodic imaging for silicone implants), and, for pectoral implants, whether the implant is custom-made.

For liposuction, etching or a lift: ask what volume or number of areas he would treat in a single operation, where the scars will fall, how long the compression garment is worn, and how clot risk is managed around the flight.

We could not document Dr. Kittichai operating anywhere except Yanhee, so surgery with him takes place at its Bang Phlat hospital; the hospital's contact page lists 454 Charansanitwong Road, Soi 90, Bang-O, Bang Phlat, Bangkok 10700 as its location. Yanhee's history goes back to an outpatient clinic, the Yanhee Polyclinic, that its founders opened in 1984. The hospital now states a capacity of 400 beds and counts eighteen board-certified plastic surgeons on its staff, all of whom it says belong to ThPRS.

Accreditation status. Joint Commission International's directory shows Yanhee with Hospital Program accreditation, and the certificate now on the hospital's website is dated 13 March 2026 to 12 March 2029. By contrast, the national accreditor HA Thailand tells a different story: its database shows Yanhee's last accreditation cycle ending in 2019 and nothing current since.

Support for overseas patients. As Yanhee describes its international service, it starts before you fly, with a no-cost online pre-assessment looked over by one of its coordinators. At the hospital, overseas patients register at the first-floor International Counter, where each is paired with an interpreter who walks them through each department; Yanhee makes no extra charge for interpreting or translation and keeps English-speaking coordinators posted around the site. Paid transfers can be arranged between hospital, hotel and airport, and partner hotels give reduced rates when the room is booked through a Yanhee package. While you are an inpatient, liaison staff from its international team call on you daily, and should an admission run longer than planned, they help you extend your visa. Yanhee takes payment by credit or debit card, by bank transfer, or in cash in the main world currencies. On discharge you are handed three papers, a discharge summary, a certificate confirming you are fit to fly and a medical certificate, and later check-ins happen over email, with your photos forwarded to the doctor.

Planning the length of your trip. The figures below come from our procedure guides and are general estimates for the operations Yanhee links to him. The date you can fly is his call rather than the guide's, so buy a ticket you can change:

• 5–7 days: under-eye and eyelid surgery, chin augmentation, Adam's apple reduction
• 7–10 days: nose augmentation and rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, liposuction
• 10–14 days: facelift, arm lift, thigh lift, revision rhinoplasty

Several operations in one trip, or corrective work on earlier surgery, can extend these times. After breast surgery, arrange for someone else to lift heavy bags; after liposuction, keep walking and discuss clot prevention before a long-haul flight.

A first request needs only the basics: what you want treated, the dates that suit you and whether the consultation should be online or in person. Everything else can wait until Yanhee's team or Dr. Kittichai asks for it; gather it early, and route any health information or photos only via our booking form or our WhatsApp line.

Whatever the procedure

• your medical conditions, every medicine or supplement in current use (blood thinners and anything else that affects bleeding in particular) and any allergies
• whether you use cigarettes, vapes or any other nicotine product
• earlier operations, with the reports for any done in the same area
• your own written list of questions for him

Revision surgery or injected silicone

• when and where each earlier operation or injection took place, and who did it, if you know
• what was used: the implant type and material, or the name of the injected substance, if known
• operation notes, implant records and any scans you already hold
• what troubles you now, such as shape, lumps, pain, infection or an implant that has moved
• photos of the problem, if asked

Nose, chin or forehead

• front, side and base (from below) photos of the nose in even light, if asked
• any breathing difficulty, allergies or past nasal injuries
• a short note of the features you want changed and those you want to keep

Under-eye surgery

• a note of eye conditions, for example glaucoma, dryness or thyroid-related eye disease, and anything wrong with your vision
• straight-on and close-up photos of the lower lids without make-up, if asked

Breasts or pectoral implants

• implant cards or records from any earlier breast or chest surgery
• any breast imaging or check-up results you already have
• any plans for pregnancy or breastfeeding later on, since our guide advises discussing these before surgery

Liposuction, etching, arm or thigh lift

• height and present weight, plus how steady your weight has been lately
• the areas you want treated
• photos of those areas, if asked

Adam's apple reduction

• any previous neck or throat surgery
• any other feminizing procedures you are planning, so their timing can be discussed

Retain a copy of each item you send, and pack the originals for Bangkok.