Asst. Prof. Kritsada Kowitwibool

Asst. Prof. Kritsada Kowitwibool, M.D. (Thai: ผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์ นายแพทย์กฤษฎา โกวิทวิบูล) is a Bangkok surgeon whose route into facial plastic and reconstructive surgery ran through otolaryngology: ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, which also covers operations on the head and neck. His Thai specialist boards are in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and, from 2012, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. His academic home is Chulalongkorn University: he is on the teaching staff of the facial plastic surgery division within the Faculty of Medicine's otolaryngology department, whose English profile, Thai profile and staff list all give his rank as Assistant Professor.

Two hospitals in the city list him:

• [King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital](/hospital/king-chulalongkorn-memorial-hospital/): a Pathumwan teaching hospital belonging to the Thai Red Cross, where Chulalongkorn trains its doctors. His department's weekly timetable puts him in outpatient clinics, an after-hours clinic and theatre sessions there.
• [TRP Hospital (Teeraporn Hospital)](/hospital/teeraporn-hospital/), Thon Buri: its medical team page introduces him as 'Dr. Whan' (หมอหวาน), facial plastic surgeon.

On paper his specialty is described only in broad terms, as the facial plastic and reconstructive field (in Thai, ศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่งและเสริมสร้างใบหน้า). Neither hospital names the individual operations he carries out, and we do not fill that gap with guesses. His publications and teaching give a clearer sense of his interests. Nasal surgery features repeatedly: a technique paper on hanging nostril rims and a review of rib cartilage grafts for septorhinoplasty. Other papers look at scar quality after head and neck incisions and at the anatomy of the great auricular and facial nerves, and his recorded lectures range from open septorhinoplasty and direct brow lift to facial reanimation and the aftermath of filler and silicone injections.

For an opinion on facial surgery in Bangkok, you can ask our patient team for a consultation with Asst. Prof. Kritsada. We put your concern to the hospital, find out whether he will see you for it, and pass the answer back to you. Dates become firm only when the hospital itself confirms them.

Each step below is taken from his Chulalongkorn otolaryngology profile; where TRP Hospital's profile describes the same step, we note what it adds or where it differs.

Medical degree, 1999. He studied medicine at Mahidol University, in its Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, graduating in 1999. The university profile marks it as an honours degree, and the TRP profile is more specific: second-class honours (Thai calendar year 2542).

Otolaryngology training at Ramathibodi, 2004–2007. Specialist training brought him back to Mahidol. His profile lists a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Science (Otolaryngology) dated 2004 and a residency in Ramathibodi's otolaryngology department published as 2004–2007.

ENT board certification. According to the Chulalongkorn page, the Medical Council of Thailand certified him in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery in 2007. TRP Hospital instead gives 2006 (2549 BE), with Ramathibodi Hospital as the training centre. This profile follows the university's date and flags the one-year discrepancy so that you can see it.

Clinical fellowship at Chulalongkorn, 2010–2012. His sub-specialty training took place in Chulalongkorn University's otolaryngology department, as a clinical fellow in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. Certification in that field followed in 2012; TRP Hospital words it as a sub-specialty certificate (อนุสาขาศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่งและเสริมสร้างใบหน้า) from Chulalongkorn Hospital, The Thai Red Cross Society.

Two US observerships, 2016. For 2016 the university profile records International Observership Fellowships in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at UC Davis Medical Center, University of California, Davis (Sacramento) and at the New York Head and Neck Institute. An observership is a period spent watching another team's practice; the profile lists these apart from his hands-on fellowship in Bangkok.

International board statement, 2016. His university page also says he is International Board Certified in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, attributed to the International Federation in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (IFFPRS). We have not been able to check this with the body itself, so read it as the university's statement rather than a confirmed credential.

Licence number. The number TRP Hospital prints on his profile is 24585 (ว.24585). 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. Anyone can run the same search at checkmd.tmc.or.th, and the provider research methodology page describes how an unfinished check is logged.

Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. His appointment in the facial plastic surgery division of Chulalongkorn's otolaryngology department dates from 2012. His profile first published it as a clinical instructor post, and the department now gives his rank as Assistant Professor; an older, 2018 entry in the Faculty of Medicine directory still has him as a lecturer. According to the hospital, the division as a whole handles plastic surgery of the head and neck following cancer operations, facial reanimation for facial paralysis, and cosmetic work in which dermatologists, oculoplastic surgeons and plastic surgeons also take part. This describes the team, not his own caseload.

When we read the department's clinic timetable on 27 September 2026, his name appeared against:

• official-hours outpatient clinics on Tuesday morning and on Thursday morning and afternoon;
• Thursday afternoon at คลินิกศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง, the department's plastic surgery clinic;
• the Tuesday after-hours clinic (นอกเวลาราชการ, held outside government working hours);
• theatre days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

University timetables are revised from term to term, so our team checks the current version before proposing dates.

Teaching. The academic-works page kept by his department lists lectures he gave between 2012 and 2017: open septorhinoplasty, direct brow lift, auricular (outer ear) reconstruction, facial reanimation, local flaps, facial contouring and lifting, fat grafting, and complications of fillers and silicone. At the 2015 European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery meeting he presented an e-poster on removing facial siliconoma, the hard lumps and inflammation that injected silicone can cause. The same page names him as course director or scientific committee member, in 2012–2017, for courses run by the Chula Soft Cadaver Surgical Training Center and for meetings of the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Association of Thailand and the Asian Facial Plastic Society.

Research. A PubMed search finds five papers under his name with his Chulalongkorn otolaryngology affiliation, and his department adds a sixth from a Thai journal:

• 2012, Thai Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery: a preliminary photogrammetric (photo-measurement) study of facial profiles in Thai adults at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital;
• 2018, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open: how the great auricular nerve varies, and whether it predicts the size of the facial nerve trunk;
• 2024, European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology: early scar results after head and neck incisions made with a scalpel versus a geometric electron modulation electrocautery device;
• 2026, Facial Plastic Surgery: four years of correcting bilateral alar hanging with a modified arrow tip technique, with Asst. Prof. Kritsada as first author;
• 2026, Aesthetic Surgery Journal: a systematic review and meta-analysis of complications when septorhinoplasty uses the patient's own (autologous) rib cartilage compared with donor (homologous) rib cartilage;
• 2026, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open: adapting and validating POSAS 3.0 (the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale) in Thai for linear scars.

TRP Hospital. On TRP Hospital's team page he appears as 'Dr. Whan – Facial plastic surgeon', and his profile there carries the hospital's Somdet Phra Chao Tak Sin Road address in Thon Buri. We found no start date for this role.

Professional bodies. We searched two societies' public directories on 27 September 2026 and found him in both: RCOT, the Thai royal college for ENT and head and neck surgeons (a member since 2007 according to his profile), and the AAFPRS (American Academy of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; since 2016). Four further memberships appear only on his university profile, and we could not confirm them elsewhere: the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Association of Thailand (from 2012), the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (from 2015), the Korean College of Cosmetic Surgery as an international member (from 2015), and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (from 2016). He is absent from the ThPRS roster of Thai plastic and reconstructive surgeons and from the archived ThSAPS aesthetic surgery directory we checked, which is consistent with a career built in otolaryngology rather than in general plastic surgery.

His official profiles give one clinical label, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, and neither hospital lists the operations he performs personally. So whatever you are considering, the first thing our patient team does is ask the hospital whether he will see you for that concern. Below are the areas his publications, lectures and hospitals point towards, each followed by general notes from our procedure guides.

Nose surgery: rhinoplasty and septorhinoplasty

Of everything in his academic record, the nose comes up most often. He has lectured on open septorhinoplasty; he is first author of a 2026 paper describing a modified arrow tip technique for hanging alae, where the nostril rims sit too low when the nose is seen from the side; and he co-authored a 2026 meta-analysis weighing the patient's own against donor rib cartilage in septorhinoplasty. According to its abstract, the alar paper covers 138 patients operated on at a Bangkok private clinic, which the paper leaves unnamed. On the hospital side, rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty are among TRP Hospital's listed services.

As general background from our guide, rhinoplasty changes the shape of the nasal bones and cartilage; if the septum is also straightened to help breathing, the combined operation is a septorhinoplasty. Raising a low bridge or tip needs graft material, either cartilage borrowed from elsewhere in the patient's body (the septum, an ear or a rib) or a synthetic implant such as silicone or ePTFE, and the choice has consequences for the chance of infection, the feel of the nose and the durability of the result. That trade-off is the subject of his 2026 review, so it is a natural topic to raise with him. A hospital stay of no more than one night is usual. Our guide expects the outer splint to come off at some point from day 5 to day 10 and plans a trip of about 7–10 days around that; the tip, meanwhile, can take 12 months or longer to lose its last swelling. Note that hanging-ala correction is not the same operation as alar base reduction, which makes wide nostrils narrower; describe what bothers you rather than picking a procedure name.

Facial rejuvenation: facelift, brow lift and fat grafting

Direct brow lift, facial contouring and lifting, and fat grafting all appear among his lecture topics. TRP Hospital, for its part, offers facelift, brow lift, neck lift and facial fat grafting. A lecture topic and a hospital service list are not evidence that he personally performs each operation, so let our team check with the hospital before any travel is booked with him in mind.

Our facelift guide describes the operation as lifting the deeper layers of the jowls and neck and trimming loose skin; the brow and eyelids are outside its reach, so those areas need their own procedures if they concern you. Expect roughly 10–14 days in Thailand, which leaves time for stitches to come out in stages and for an early check before you fly. Bleeding under the skin (haematoma) is, according to our guide, the most frequent of the serious complications and may need draining; weakness of the facial nerve is also possible, and in most cases it recovers. Whether a facelift suits you at all is decided only after an assessment in person.

Reconstruction, facial nerve problems and scars

The division he teaches in includes rebuilding the head and neck after cancer operations, as well as facial reanimation, in its work, and he has lectured on facial reanimation, local flaps and reconstruction of the outer ear. His scar studies (scalpel versus electrocautery incisions, and the Thai scar-assessment scale) and his nerve anatomy paper sit within the same field. Reconstruction is never planned from a description alone: it depends on your records and an examination in person, and the division describes joint work with eye-plastic (oculoplastic) surgeons, plastic surgeons and skin specialists. Send complete documentation, and expect a proposed plan only after he has seen you.

Problems after fillers or silicone injections

Filler and silicone complications were one of his lecture subjects, and his 2015 e-poster dealt with removing facial siliconoma. We do not have a procedure guide on this, and no official page lists it as a service he offers. If you have lumps, firmness or other trouble after facial injections, let our team know what was injected, when and at which clinic, and we will find out if he is able to examine you.

Other procedures at TRP Hospital

TRP Hospital also offers eyelid surgery, chin augmentation, breast augmentation and liposuction. We found nothing linking Asst. Prof. Kritsada to these; the hospital's team includes other surgeons, and we can tell you whom to approach.

Because no hospital publishes a procedure list for him, the first thing a consultation should settle is whether your concern falls within the work he does. The questions below are ones patients commonly bring; pick those that fit your situation.

About him and the hospital

• Will you personally operate on me, and how large a part of your practice is this operation?
• Would I be treated at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital or at TRP Hospital, and what decides that? The first is a Thai Red Cross teaching hospital and the second a private hospital centred on facial plastic surgery, so admission, scheduling, fees and aftercare may work differently.
• Who will give the anaesthetic, and will I need a night in hospital?
• If I am treated at the university hospital, what part will residents or fellows play in my care?
• May I see before-and-after examples of cases like mine?

If your concern is your nose

• Would you use an open or closed approach for my nose, and which graft or implant would you choose?
• If rib cartilage comes into it, would it be mine or donor cartilage, and how do the complication risks differ? His 2026 meta-analysis looked at exactly this comparison.
• Does my septum need correcting, and how might my breathing change?
• If this would be a second operation, is it too soon after the first? Our revision guide notes that surgeons commonly advise letting at least a year pass so that swelling has settled. Might ear or rib cartilage be needed?

If your concern is ageing of the face

• Which facelift approach would you use in my case (mini, full or deep plane), and does my neck need attention as well?
• Is my concern better treated with a brow lift or eyelid surgery than with a facelift?
• Once I am home, how is follow-up arranged, and whom do I call if something changes?

Costs and aftercare

• What exactly is in the quote: surgeon's fee, anaesthesia, hospital nights, tests, follow-up visits?
• If a revision were ever needed, how would it be charged?
• When do you think I will be fit for the flight home?

Get the plan, the itemised price and the aftercare arrangements in writing before paying anything. Our patient guides include checks worth making on any surgeon and hospital before a deposit changes hands.

King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Patients arrive at 1873 Rama 4 Road in Bangkok's Pathumwan district (postcode 10330). An official hospital page (archived in December 2024) places the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic on floor 12 of the Bhor Por Ror (ภปร) Building, open 08.00–16.00 on weekdays. HA Thailand, the national accreditor, lists the hospital as re-accredited at its advanced level in May 2025, with the certificate running to 22 May 2029. The JCI's online list of accredited organisations gave no result for it. We have not found an official page on international patient services, interpreters or languages offered, although the hospital's site does have English pages. Flag any interpreter needs when you first write to us.

TRP Hospital. TRP is at 549 Somdet Phra Chao Tak Sin Road, Samre, Thon Buri, Bangkok 10600. We have not found an official source for accreditation or for international patient services at TRP, so our hospital profile leaves both unrecorded for now. Ask us what help the hospital offers before you commit to flights.

Language. No official page says which languages he consults in. We will ask whether he can consult in English or whether the hospital can provide an interpreter.

Timing your visit. At Chulalongkorn his clinics follow a fixed weekly pattern: outpatient sessions on Tuesday and Thursday, theatre on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (timetable as published in September 2026). An in-person first visit at the university hospital therefore has to fit one of those sessions; give us your arrival date and we will check which are open.

Length of stay. Our guides suggest roughly 7–10 days in Thailand after rhinoplasty and 10–14 days after a facelift or revision rhinoplasty, though only the surgeon can clear you for the flight home. Pathumwan and Thon Buri are separate districts, so find out which hospital will handle your consultation and operation before booking a hotel, and choose a changeable return ticket in case a follow-up appointment moves.

A detailed first message helps him form an initial view and cuts down on paperwork once you land in Bangkok. Anything based on photos is a preliminary view; a firm plan comes only after he has examined you.

For every concern

• A short medical history: age, any long-term conditions, the medicines and supplements you take (mention blood thinners such as aspirin, anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen, and herbal remedies), known allergies, and your smoking or vaping status.
• Any earlier operations, injections or injuries involving the face, with rough dates.
• The dates you could travel and which hospital you would prefer, if you have a preference.

Nose (rhinoplasty, septorhinoplasty, revision or nostril-rim concerns)

• Photos taken in even daylight, bare-faced and without glasses: straight on, each profile, and one from below showing the nostrils.
• A couple of sentences on the change you are hoping for, plus anything relevant to breathing: blockage, a past nasal injury or allergies.
• For a revision: copies of the earlier operation notes where obtainable, the implant or graft used, and the date.

Facelift, neck, brow or fat grafting

• Straight-on, profile and three-quarter photos, face relaxed and hair held away from it, showing your forehead, jawline and neck.
• A list of previous facial treatments such as fillers, thread lifts or earlier surgery.

After fillers or silicone injections

• What was injected, when, where and by whom; any product names or clinic records; photos of the affected area; and results of any scans or treatment so far.

Reconstruction, facial paralysis or weakness

• From the hospital that treated you: operation notes, pathology and imaging reports, the dates of any cancer treatment, and your current follow-up plan.
• For facial weakness: when it began and, if possible, a short phone video in which you lift your brows, shut your eyes tightly and smile.

Once you have sent your request, our team will tell you where to send these files and whether the hospital needs anything more.