Asst. Prof. Dr. Krit Khwanngern

Asst. Prof. Dr. Krit Khwanngern (Thai: ผศ.นพ. กฤษณ์ ขวัญเงิน) practises plastic surgery in Chiang Mai. Most of his published posts are academic. Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Medicine names him an assistant professor in its Department of Surgery and head of that department's Plastic Surgery Unit, and the Faculty's executive-team page names him deputy dean in charge of information technology and data management. At the Princess Sirindhorn IT Foundation Craniofacial Center, also part of the university, he is shown as acting director and as chair of the executive committee.

His private-hospital listings are in the same city: - [Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai](/hospital/bangkok-hospital-chiang-mai/) includes him among the plastic surgeons of its Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery Clinic, as well as its Surgery Department. - [Chiangmai Ram Hospital](/hospital/chiang-mai-ram-hospital/) places him under Plastic Surgery, holding a Friday clinic at the Dermatology & Laser centre inside the Chiangmai Ram Health Center.

Two university facilities also appear in his record. An archived copy of his official [Sriphat Medical Center](/hospital/sriphat-medical-center/) profile puts him in the Surgery Clinic of the Sriphat outpatient building on Friday evenings. For an address, his member entry with ThPRS, the national society for plastic and reconstructive surgeons, names the Plastic Surgery Unit, located at [Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital](/hospital/maharaj-nakorn-chiang-mai-hospital/), which serves as the Faculty of Medicine's own hospital.

On Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai's profile, his qualifications are a Doctor of Medicine (1995), a board certificate in surgery and a sub-board certificate in plastic surgery (2005), each from Chiang Mai University. He also appears on the membership list that ThPRS publishes itself.

Clefts and other conditions of the face and skull run through his public record: the Craniofacial Center role, and the papers on PubMed that carry his Plastic Surgery Unit or Craniofacial Center affiliation. What the record lacks is a list of cosmetic operations. None of the profiles we verified names one, so this page links him to no procedure guide, and the practice-areas section below explains how to approach that as a patient. To find out whether your concern is one he treats, request a consultation; our patient team then asks his hospital on your behalf.

All of Asst. Prof. Dr. Krit's published qualifications were awarded by Chiang Mai University, and the only official page that sets them out is his profile at Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai. They are: - 1995: Doctor of Medicine (แพทยศาสตรบัณฑิต, พ.บ.), Chiang Mai University. - Residency in surgery, Chiang Mai University (year not published). - Board certificate in surgery, Chiang Mai University (no dependable year; explained below). - 2005: Sub-board certificate in plastic surgery (ศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง), Chiang Mai University.

The list shows training and certification in surgery alongside a plastic surgery sub-board awarded ten years after his medical degree. It establishes his specialty. It says nothing about which cosmetic operations he carries out or how often, and that is something to ask him face to face.

What the record leaves open. The data behind the Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai profile gives the surgery board and a plastic-surgery fellowship row a date in 1995, the same year as his medical degree, which cannot be correct for either. We therefore show only the two years that are consistent (1995 for the medical degree, 2005 for the plastic surgery sub-board), leave the surgery board without a year and list no fellowship. No official page says where or for how long he trained in plastic surgery before 2005, and the qualification and fellowship fields on Chiangmai Ram Hospital's profile of him are blank. We did not find any official record of training abroad. If any of this matters to your decision, raise it with him directly.

Medical licence. 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. The structured data behind his Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai profile holds the number 20191 in a medical-licence field. The page itself does not display it and we have not matched it against the register, so look it up there before agreeing to treatment. The way we handle credentials that could not be confirmed at the source is set out in our research methodology.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Krit's published roles divide into Chiang Mai University posts on one side and clinic sessions at private and university hospitals on the other. None of the sources dates the start of a current post, so the length of time he has held each one is not known to us.

Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University - Plastic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery: head of unit (หัวหน้าหน่วย, หน่วยศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง), as marked on both the department's staff list and the unit's own page. - Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, with plastic surgery recorded as his field of expertise. - Deputy Dean (Information Technology and Data Management), according to the Faculty's executive-team page. A Faculty news post of January 2025 names him deputy dean for information technology for the 2025–2029 term, and a post from December 2019 already refers to him as a deputy dean. - Princess Sirindhorn IT Foundation Craniofacial Center. The centre's own website shows him as chair of the executive committee, as acting director, and on its list of plastic surgeons. When the Faculty reported the centre's launch in December 2019, it quoted him on the centre and on Thai Cleft Link, the centre's cleft database.

The Plastic Surgery Unit's page also credits him with a Faculty health-education programme on cleft lip and palate.

Clinic sessions in Chiang Mai hospitals - Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai: named in the Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery Clinic as well as the Surgery Department. The structured data on his profile records his work there as part-time and, at the time of our check, showed Wednesday Surgery Unit sessions from 18:00 to 19:00 scheduled between 30 September and 23 December 2026. - Chiangmai Ram Hospital: a Friday clinic in the Dermatology & Laser centre at the Chiangmai Ram Health Center. - Sriphat Medical Center: his archived official profile, captured in May 2026, gives a Friday clinic from 17:00 to 19:00 in the Surgery Clinic of the Sriphat outpatient building, 5th floor. Read this as the last schedule published rather than a confirmed current one.

Published sessions can change at short notice, which is why our patient team checks his current days with the hospital once your request arrives.

Published research PubMed lists 20 papers with him as an author. The eight shown on this profile carry his Plastic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery or Craniofacial Center affiliation, and all concern clefts or other craniofacial conditions: - outcomes of a cleft lip and cleft palate healthcare network in northern Thailand (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, 2025); - two studies on measuring an alveolar cleft, the gap in the gum and upper jaw, on cone beam CT before bone grafting: one compares computer simulation with a water-displacement method (2023), the other compares the simulated volume with the bone actually used in the graft (2025), both in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal; - a ten-year case-control study of predisposing factors for non-syndromic cleft lip and palate in the northern Thai population (Congenital Anomalies, 2023); - a 2024 multicentre study in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery on Thai craniofacial anomalies other than clefts; - laboratory studies of DNA methylation in orofacial clefts (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022) and of senescence-associated markers in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate (Scientific Reports, 2024); - clinical and genetic findings in identical twins with Pfeiffer syndrome, a condition affecting the skull and face (Genes, 2022).

His other PubMed records include COVID-19 vaccine-effectiveness and health-informatics papers from the Faculty of Medicine, a 2020 study of facial measurements on CT, a 2022 case report of encephalomeningocele, a 2011 follow-up report on Apert syndrome, and 2007 and 2008 papers on a diabetic-foot care protocol at Chiang Mai University. Being listed as an author shows involvement in a study; it does not tell you what his individual part in it was.

Our surgeon profiles usually link every documented procedure to its guide. For Asst. Prof. Dr. Krit there is nothing to link: the two private hospitals, Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai and Chiangmai Ram, publish only his specialty and clinic, the university pages give plastic surgery as his expertise, and no profile we verified names an individual cosmetic operation. Below is what each documented area does, and does not, tell a patient.

Cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial conditions This is the clearest focus of his public record. He holds the acting directorship of Chiang Mai University's Craniofacial Center, the centre lists him among its plastic surgeons, and his listed research follows cleft patients from causes and genetics through to bone grafting and the outcomes of a regional treatment network. The record does not say which cleft or craniofacial operations he performs himself, or whether he sees adults with cleft-related concerns in his private clinics. We have no procedure guide for cleft or craniofacial surgery. If this is why you are contacting him, say so at the start of your request and include the history of earlier treatment. His documented craniofacial work sits within the university, at the Craniofacial Center and at the Plastic Surgery Unit that the ThPRS directory places at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital.

The Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery Clinic at Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai He is one of the plastic surgeons named in this clinic. An official Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai page lists these procedures: blepharoplasty, facelift, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, breast lift, post-weight-loss body contouring, thigh lift and tummy tuck. That is the hospital's list for a clinic several surgeons share, not a list of Dr. Krit's operations. Ask whether he performs the one you want before you plan a trip around his sessions.

The Friday clinic at the Chiangmai Ram Health Center At Chiangmai Ram he consults in the Dermatology & Laser centre, which is in the Chiangmai Ram Health Center building, about 50 metres from the main hospital along Boonreungrit Road. The aesthetic services the hospital publishes for that centre are non-surgical, among them laser treatments, Ulthera, Sculptra, fillers and botulinum toxin, and our research on Chiangmai Ram found no official page listing a cosmetic operation. A Friday appointment can open the conversation; if surgery is proposed, ask in which hospital and operating theatre it would be done.

The Surgery Clinic at Sriphat Medical Center Sriphat is a Faculty of Medicine facility within Chiang Mai University, with a Surgery Clinic and a Surgery Center of its own. His archived Sriphat profile places him in the Surgery Clinic on Friday evenings. Our Sriphat Medical Center page shows the procedures the centre's official pages name; as at Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, ask whether he would be the one performing yours.

Already set on a particular operation? You may prefer to begin with a surgeon whose official profile names your procedure. Our Chiang Mai page lists the plastic surgeons we cover in the city, each with the procedures its sources document. Dr. Anan Watcharhachittitam, Asst. Prof. Dr. Puttan Wongtriratanachai and Dr. Somboon Chaisrisawadisuk are listed at one or more of the same hospitals as Dr. Krit.

Because Dr. Krit's published record describes posts rather than a list of operations, the first part of a consultation is about fit: is your concern something he treats himself, and where would he treat it?

Is this within his own practice? - Do you perform this operation yourself, and how often? - Does my concern belong with your reconstructive and craniofacial work or with cosmetic surgery, and does that change which clinic I should attend? - Can you show me examples of similar cases you have treated, shared with the patients' consent?

Where, when and with whom - In which hospital would the operation take place: Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, Chiangmai Ram, or a Chiang Mai University hospital? Where would I be seen afterwards? - Your published clinics fall on set days (Wednesday evenings at Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, Fridays at Chiangmai Ram and Sriphat). How are follow-up visits arranged, and whom do I contact with an urgent problem between sessions? - Who gives the anaesthetic, and what type is planned for me?

Plan, price and aftercare - What does the written quote cover (surgeon, anaesthesia, operating theatre, hospital stay, tests, medicines, follow-up) and what does it leave out? - If I need extra care, a longer stay or a second operation, what happens and who covers the cost? - If the plan is based on photos, when and where will you confirm it in person?

General guidance for the operations Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai lists If your question concerns one of the procedures on the hospital's list, our guides describe what patients generally go through. For rhinoplasty, a plan made from front, side and base photos is provisional until a surgeon has examined the nose in person, and any revision is generally left for a year or more after the first operation, so that swelling has settled. The same guide says smokers are usually asked to give up cigarettes and other nicotine for several weeks around the operation, before and after it, and that blood-thinning medicines and supplements such as aspirin or ibuprofen are paused only when a doctor advises it. For eyelid surgery, expect to be asked about your vision, glaucoma, dry eyes and thyroid eye disease, since these affect safety, and whether heavy upper lids are blocking the upper field of view. Every operation carries risks, which each guide sets out, and only an in-person assessment can show whether a procedure is suitable for you. How Dr. Krit would approach your own case is what the consultation is for.

All four facilities that list Dr. Krit are in Chiang Mai, yet the practical information they publish for patients from abroad differs a great deal. On his own languages, Chiangmai Ram Hospital's profile records Thai first and English second.

Chiangmai Ram Hospital. A private hospital at 8 Boonreungrit Road, opened in 1993, and shown in Joint Commission International's directory as accredited under its Hospital Program. Its International Patients Services supply professional medical interpreters for seven languages: Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Korean. The hospital wants interpreters arranged in advance, when the appointment is made, so if you need one for Dr. Krit's Friday clinic, name the language in your request to us. That clinic is held in the Health Center building on Boonreungrit Road, a short walk from the main hospital. Chiangmai Ram also operates an ambulance and patient-transfer service around the clock.

Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai. This is where his Wednesday evening sessions are listed. An international patient desk is among the services it lists; our facility profile has no verified accreditation on record yet. Ask our team about anything practical you depend on, such as interpreting or how payment works, before you travel.

Sriphat Medical Center. Run by Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Medicine, at 110/392 Inthawarorot Road. Its Foreign Center provides interpreters and assistance with international insurance, and the languages it lists are Thai, English, Japanese, Chinese and Burmese.

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. The Faculty of Medicine's own hospital, also on Inthawarorot Road, and the address the ThPRS directory gives for his Plastic Surgery Unit. We have no international patient services recorded for it, so if an appointment there is proposed, ask us what help is on offer.

Planning the trip. The timed sessions he has published last one to two hours on a single weekday, so leave slack in your travel dates and hold off on flights until our team has confirmed an appointment. If an operation is planned, ask the surgeon how many days you should stay in Chiang Mai for check-ups afterwards, and either travel with a companion or ask the hospital's international service what support it offers. The hospital, not ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com, gives the treatment, sets the prices and runs its own patient services.

Detail in your first message saves a round of questions: it lets the hospital judge whether Dr. Krit is the surgeon for you to see. Medical information and images should reach us by one of two routes only: the booking form or WhatsApp.

In every request - A sentence or two on the problem and the change you are hoping for. - Which hospital you prefer, whether you want to meet online or in person, and when you will be in Chiang Mai. - Long-term illnesses, allergies, and every medicine or supplement you take. - Your use of tobacco, e-cigarettes, nicotine gum or patches. - The language you need an interpreter for, if any.

If the area has had surgery before - Operation notes or discharge summaries, dated and naming the hospital. - Reports of scans you already have, for example CT reports.

For a cleft or craniofacial concern - The patient's age. His private-hospital listings do not say which age groups he sees there, so the hospital needs this to route the request. - A dated list of past operations and treatment and where each took place, as far as you know it. - Letters or reports from other clinicians who have treated the condition, if you have them.

For a cosmetic concern - Photos only once his team asks for them. For a nose, that generally means front, side and base views in neutral light, as described in our rhinoplasty guide; for other areas the team will specify the views it needs. - A short list of your questions for Dr. Krit, beginning with whether he performs the operation himself.