Dr. Kittipat Chonsuwat

Dr. Kittipat Chonsuwat is a plastic surgeon practising in Phuket, Thailand. The doctor directory of Bangkok Hospital Siriroj gives plastic surgery as the specialty, and a second hospital in the same network also names Dr. Kittipat: Bangkok Hospital Siriroj and Bangkok Hospital Phuket.

The Siriroj profile places Dr. Kittipat with the Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute. The Bangkok Hospital Phuket profile instead gives the Emergency & Trauma Center and the Surgery Center. The two hospitals describe the role differently, so we show both and do not pick one.

This page keeps two things apart: what the hospitals actually publish about Dr. Kittipat, and general guidance on planning surgery in Thailand. The official profiles do not list individual procedures, sub-specialties, society memberships or special interests, and they do not give a gender beyond the honorific, so none of those appear here. If a particular operation is what you have in mind, request a consultation and the hospital can be asked on your behalf whether this surgeon is the right match. Our checking process is described on the research methodology page.

The Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile records three stages of training, all in Thailand:

• Doctor of Medicine, Mahidol University (1999).
• Surgery, Chiang Mai University (2006). Listed as a residency in surgery.
• Plastic surgery, Chulalongkorn University (2010). Listed as a residency in plastic surgery.

There is one inconsistency between the sources. On the Bangkok Hospital Phuket profile, the 2010 plastic surgery qualification is credited to The Medical Council of Thailand and not to Chulalongkorn University. We follow the Siriroj wording and flag the difference. It may only reflect how each hospital words the same qualification, but we have not been able to confirm that, so it is a fair point to raise before you travel.

Licence status is unconfirmed. 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. Kittipat's licence number is not on file with us. You can search the public register yourself or ask the hospital for the number in writing. No society membership is on record either. The national plastic surgery society states its entry requirements but we found no readable member list, so none is claimed.

Two hospitals in Phuket list Dr. Kittipat as a plastic surgeon:

• Bangkok Hospital Siriroj: listed as a plastic surgeon within the Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute on the Siriroj doctor profile. The hospital's institute page sorts its services into six headings, running from facial and breast work through body contouring to gender affirmation and metabolic surgery. Those headings describe the institute. They are not a list of what Dr. Kittipat personally does.
• Bangkok Hospital Phuket: plastic surgeon in the Emergency & Trauma Center and Surgery Center, per that hospital's profile.

The profiles carry no start dates, earlier posts, teaching posts or publications, and we add none. The Siriroj profile lists English and Thai as languages.

Neither hospital profile names an operation. A plastic surgeon's title covers a wide field, from reconstruction after injury to aesthetic work, and it does not tell a patient which parts Dr. Kittipat takes on. So we have not attached a procedure page to this profile.

What is documented is the setting around the surgeon. Bangkok Hospital Siriroj says the institute treats mostly international patients, and its service headings are the six groups summarised above. If your interest falls inside one of them, you can read our general pages first, for example rhinoplasty or breast augmentation, and then ask whether Dr. Kittipat is the surgeon who would take your case.

A listing in a trauma and surgery centre suggests that some of this surgeon's caseload could be reconstructive or urgent rather than cosmetic. That is our reading of a department name and not something either hospital states, so please treat it as a reason to ask and nothing more.

In general, no surgeon should be chosen for a cosmetic operation on the strength of a job title. What matters for you is whether the surgeon regularly performs that specific operation, in a facility equipped for it, and is willing to explain the limits of what it can achieve.

In general, a first consultation with any plastic surgeon should cover the same ground. Since no procedures are published for Dr. Kittipat, these questions carry extra weight:

• Which operations does the surgeon perform regularly, and is yours among them?
• Would your operation take place at Siriroj or at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, and who administers the anaesthetic?
• What does the quoted plan include, and what is billed on top?
• If recovery is slower than expected, who decides on extra care, and where?
• Who answers your questions after you fly home, and how do you reach them?
• Can the surgeon provide a Medical Council of Thailand licence number?

Get the plan, the price and the aftercare arrangements in writing. Any surgery brings risks, among them bleeding, infection, poor scars, anaesthetic problems and an outcome short of what you pictured, and only a proper assessment of your health and goals can show whether an operation is suitable for you. A surgeon who respects your goals will describe the realistic range of results and the risks, and will not promise a particular outcome.

Foreign nationals make up most of the patients at the Siriroj plastic surgery institute, by the hospital's own account. Dr. Kittipat's Siriroj entry gives English and Thai as languages. We found no published detail on interpreter support, an international patient desk or airport transfers for the Siriroj site, and nothing on the Bangkok Hospital Phuket site either, so confirm those arrangements in writing.

Siriroj sits on Chalermprakiat Ror 9 Road in the Wichit area of Mueang Phuket. As Dr. Kittipat is listed at two hospitals, read the address on your appointment confirmation before travelling.

On accreditation, the public JCI directory has a hospital-programme entry for Bangkok Hospital Siriroj starting 15 December 2012; no end date appears. We have not recorded an accreditation for Bangkok Hospital Phuket. Accreditation is a statement about a hospital's systems at the time of a survey. It says nothing about the result you will get from any one surgeon.

In general, overseas patients do well to book a room close to the hospital for early recovery and to keep the flight home movable. How long a stay the hospital advises depends on the operation and your own recovery, so ask for its guidance once the procedure is known. The Phuket city guide covers the island itself.

Because no procedure list exists for this surgeon, a clear description of what you want is the most useful thing you can send. Hospitals commonly ask for:

• A short plain-language statement of your goal.
• Well-lit photos of the relevant area from the angles the surgeon asks for.
• Your medical history, including past operations, conditions, allergies and every medicine you take, with blood thinners and supplements named.
• Whether you smoke or vape, plus height and weight where they matter to the operation.
• Reports or implant details from any earlier surgery.
• Roughly when you could fly and how long you could remain.

Share nothing beyond what is asked, and use the secure route we give you.