Dr. Piyapas Pichaichanarong

Dr. Piyapas Pichaichanarong (Thai: ปิยะพาสน์ พิชัยชาญณรงค์) practises plastic and reconstructive surgery on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. Two certificates frame his record: the Thai Certified Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, dated 2002, and, from 2019, a 'Verified' Diplomate entry in the public directory kept by the hair restoration certifying board ABHRS (American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery). Hair restoration is also the first of the six specialty headings on his institute profile, ahead of facial, body, breast, reconstructive and anti-aging work.

His principal base is Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute (PPSI), where the institute profile gives his post as Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon from 2016. The institute is administered by Bangkok Hospital Siriroj, a member of the BDMS (Bangkok Dusit Medical Services) network, and PPSI's contact page gives its location as inside the Siriroj hospital, 44 Chalermprakiat Rama 9 Rd, 83000 Phuket. Siriroj's own doctor finder carries a separate profile of Dr. Piyapas, filed under plastic surgery and surgery and linked to the PPSI centre. In practical terms, a consultation arranged through PPSI takes place inside that hospital.

Official listings name two further places. His English PPSI profile gives Mission Hospital, Phuket, as a current post dating from 2014. The ABHRS, ISAPS and ThPRS directories, for their part, attach him to the Jungceylon Plastic Surgery & Hair Transplantation Clinic in Kathu. Neither has a facility page on our site yet: we found no official Mission Hospital Phuket doctor page, and the Jungceylon clinic's site (jclclinic.in.th) gave no response during our 27 September 2026 check.

Procedure areas named on his PPSI profile. Under its six headings (hair restoration and transplantation, facial cosmetic surgery, body contouring, breast surgery, reconstructive surgery and anti-aging medicine) the profile names these operations:

• Hair transplant by both FUT (strip harvesting) and FUE
• Rhinoplasty for Asian and Caucasian noses, which takes in Asian rhinoplasty
• Eyelid surgery, facelift and neck lift
• Breast augmentation, breast lift and breast reduction
• Tummy tuck, liposuction and fat transfer (the area is not stated)
• Reconstruction, with scar revision among the listed items

Dr. Piyapas appears on the ThPRS membership roster, kept by the Thai body that registers plastic and reconstructive surgeons, and ISAPS shows him as an active member in its Find-a-Surgeon directory for Thailand, with the Jungceylon clinic as his practice. The languages given on his PPSI profiles are English and Thai. If you would like to request a consultation with Dr. Piyapas, our patient team forwards your enquiry to PPSI and reports back with the dates and consultation formats the institute can offer.

Dr. Piyapas's record includes a science degree alongside the medical one. His PPSI profile pairs a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from a Faculty of Science with a Doctor of Medicine from Chulalongkorn; that sentence does not say which university awarded the science degree, and we leave it unnamed. The dated steps below come from his Bangkok Hospital Siriroj and PPSI profiles and from the ABHRS directory:

• Bachelor's degree, biochemistry: Faculty of Science; university not given separately (PPSI profile).
• 1995, Doctor of Medicine: Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile).
• 1999, surgery: Somdejprapinklao Hospital (Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile).
• 1999, Thai Certified Board of General Surgery (PPSI profile).
• 2002, plastic surgery: Mahidol University (Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile).
• 2002, Thai Certified Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PPSI profile).
• 2019, American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS), Diplomate: status shown as 'Verified' in the board's directory.

Read in sequence, the record runs from a medical degree in 1995 to board certification in general surgery four years later, and in plastic and reconstructive surgery three years after that. The 2019 ABHRS status is the only credential on his file tied to one field, hair restoration, and it is also the one you can confirm in the certifying body's own directory rather than on a hospital page.

The biochemistry degree connects to two other lines on the PPSI profile: an interest in cosmetic skin-care formulations, and membership of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Thailand and of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC). Those two memberships are stated on the PPSI profile alone. ThPRS and ISAPS are different, because we found his name in both societies' own directories.

Checking his licence. PPSI gives his Medical Council of Thailand licence as number 20379, dated 1995. On 27 September 2026 we opened the Council's checkmd.tmc.or.th search to match it, and a Cloudflare block page stopped the name lookup, so the number is not yet matched to the register. You can run the name search yourself before committing to surgery, or our patient team can ask PPSI to confirm the licence in writing. How we check each credential is set out in our research methodology.

Posts listed as current

• Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute (PPSI), Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, from 2016. He is one of five plastic surgeons on the institute's doctor list, together with its director, Dr. Sanguan Kunaporn; Dr. Singto Siriwiroj; Dr. Veerawat Tirananmongkol; and Dr. Pongsatorn Sanguanchua.
• Bangkok Hospital Siriroj, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, from 2014. This date comes from the Thai-language PPSI profile. The hospital's own doctor page files him under plastic surgery and surgery within the PPSI centre.
• Mission Hospital, Phuket, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, from 2014. Stated on the PPSI profile only. We could not find a doctor page on an official Mission Hospital Phuket website; the domains we came across were parked.
• Jungceylon Plastic Surgery & Hair Transplantation Clinic, Kathu. Named as his practice by ABHRS, ISAPS and ThPRS. ABHRS records the address as 96/46-48 Moo 1, Pra Phuket Keaw Road, Tambon Kathu, Ampur Kathu, Phuket 83120. No role title or start date is published for it.

Bangkok Hospital Phuket

The English PPSI profile also names Bangkok Phuket Hospital (Bangkok Hospital Phuket) among his consultant posts. When we checked on 27 September 2026, that hospital's doctor directory did not return a profile for him, so we do not present it as a current place of practice. The link has a history: PPSI came out of a merger of two earlier centres, one of them the cosmetic surgery institute (BPICS) based at Bangkok Hospital Phuket and the other an aesthetic centre (PIAC) at Siriroj. According to the PPSI profile, Bangkok Phuket Hospital gave him a Physician of Excellence award seven years running; we report that as PPSI's statement, not as something we have seen in the hospital's own records.

Previous posts in Chonburi province

Three more roles appear under a single heading, without a date for each, and we treat them as earlier posts:

• Plastic Surgeon Consultant at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya
• Plastic Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Queen Sirikit General Hospital (Royal Thai Navy)
• Physician at Arpakorn Kiattiwong Hospital, Sattaheep Navy Base

Two of these posts were at Royal Thai Navy facilities, and the ThPRS member list gives his Thai name with a navy rank prefix and suffix. No English rank is published, so, like his hospital profiles, we call him Dr. Piyapas.

Team operating for combined procedures

His PPSI profile says he takes on multiple-procedure cases as part of a surgical team, with the stated aim of shortening operating time and lowering risk. If your plan joins, say, a tummy tuck with breast surgery, it is reasonable to ask which surgeon carries out each stage, the total time under anaesthesia and the expected length of your hospital stay.

Not published anywhere we looked: how many years he has practised, how many operations he has performed, outcome or complication rates, and research papers (PubMed returns no records under his surname). The header of his PPSI web page shows an 'Experience' figure that is a website template default, and we disregarded it.

Each heading below corresponds to an item on his PPSI profile. The background comes from our procedure guides and is general; whether a procedure suits you, and which technique and recovery plan apply, is for Dr. Piyapas to decide after examining you.

Hair transplant: FUE and FUT with Dr. Piyapas

Hair restoration heads his list of specialties, and the profile says he uses Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) as well as Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) for restoration, treatment and aesthetic enhancement. It is also the field of his 2019 ABHRS Diplomate status. As general background, a hair transplant relocates follicles from the back of the scalp, where hair tends to resist balding, into thinner areas, and it is usually a one-day procedure under local anaesthetic. With FUE, grafts are taken out one at a time, leaving small scattered dot scars. With FUT, a strip of donor skin is removed and divided into grafts; that leaves a single line scar but can supply a large number of grafts in one session. Because he offers both, the method can be matched to your donor area and to the kind of scar you would accept. DHI does not appear on his profile.

Timing, in general: a temporary shedding of the implanted hairs is usual in weeks two to six, regrowth typically begins around month three or four, and the bulk of the result is visible by about month 12, with the crown sometimes lagging. Suitability depends on having enough healthy donor hair and a hair-loss pattern that has been diagnosed and is reasonably stable. Donor follicles are limited, so a sensible plan also leaves room for loss that may continue, and a doctor may suggest medication such as minoxidil or finasteride to hold on to the hair you still have. Get the graft estimate and the pricing basis in writing, and ask which steps Dr. Piyapas performs personally and which his team carries out.

Rhinoplasty: Asian and Caucasian noses

According to the PPSI profile, his rhinoplasty work covers both Asian and Caucasian patients, which in practice often means two different aims. Asian rhinoplasty is frequently about building up: adding height to a flat bridge or definition to the tip, either with the patient's own cartilage (septal, ear or rib) or with silicone, ePTFE or a similar implant material. Cartilage from your own body and synthetic implants trade off differently on feel, durability and infection behaviour, so ask him to explain the option he suggests. For many Caucasian noses the request is a reduction, handled through rhinoplasty that takes down a dorsal hump, slims the width or reshapes a rounded tip. An open approach adds a small scar on the skin between the nostrils; a closed approach keeps the cuts inside the nose. Revision rhinoplasty is not listed separately on his profile, so flag any past nasal operation or fracture in your enquiry. In general, patients remain in Thailand until the splint comes off and a check has been done, commonly 7–10 days; final refinement of the tip is slow and may continue for 12 months or longer.

Eyelid surgery

The profile names eyelid surgery without specifying upper or lower lids. In general, blepharoplasty trims or repositions skin, muscle and fat to deal with hooded upper lids or bags beneath the eyes. Two conditions can look similar but need something else: ptosis, where the lid margin itself droops and the lifting muscle needs repair, and a low brow, which may respond better to a brow lift. Your eye health forms part of the assessment, including dry eye, glaucoma, thyroid-related eye problems and eyesight. As a general guide, sutures are taken out at about five to seven days, and many people fly home around then.

Facelift and neck lift

His profile groups face and neck lifting with the procedures intended to restore a more youthful facial appearance. A facelift repositions sagging tissue of the lower face, jowls and jawline, and a neck lift, often done at the same time, tightens loose neck skin and prominent muscle bands. Brow position, eyelid ageing and fine surface lines lie outside what either operation addresses. The profile is silent on technique, SMAS plication, deep-plane dissection or a limited-incision approach, for example, so ask Dr. Piyapas which one he would use for your face and why. General points from our guide: stop smoking and nicotine well ahead of surgery and during healing, because smoking makes skin-healing problems more likely; the commonest significant complication is haematoma, meaning blood pooling beneath the skin, which sometimes needs draining; and travellers from overseas generally budget 10–14 days in Thailand.

Breast augmentation, breast lift and breast reduction

Breast surgery is one of his six listed fields and covers three operations:

• Breast augmentation: the discussion covers implant fill (silicone or saline), shape, surface texture and whether the implant sits above or below the chest muscle. Leave with a written record of the implant brand, type, size and batch, because implants have a limited lifespan and a later replacement or removal operation is common. Typically 7–10 days in Thailand.
• Breast lift: the degree of lift needed determines the scars (around the areola, a vertical line, or an anchor shape). Adding an implant to a lift makes surgery more complex and revisions more frequent than either procedure on its own, so ask Dr. Piyapas whether he would combine or stage them for you. Typically 10–14 days in Thailand.
• Breast reduction: many people seek it for neck, shoulder and back discomfort as much as for shape. Ask how the method he proposes affects scarring, nipple sensation and later breastfeeding. Typically 10–14 days in Thailand.

PPSI does not provide post-operative support bras but will help you obtain one, so arrange it before the operation.

Tummy tuck, liposuction and fat transfer

For body contouring, the profile lists tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), liposuction and fat transfer, without saying where the transferred fat is placed, so ask if that is your interest. As general guidance, a tummy tuck removes excess lower-abdominal skin and fat and usually tightens separated abdominal muscles. It is generally planned once your weight is steady and you do not expect further pregnancies. Compared with many cosmetic operations it carries a raised risk of blood clots, which is why our guide stresses clot prevention, walking soon after surgery and care around a long-haul flight. Liposuction reduces local fat deposits but does not tighten loose skin; the surgeon limits the volume removed according to your weight and health, and risk climbs with bigger volumes and combined operations. For travel planning, our guides give roughly 12–14 days in the country for a tummy tuck, 7–10 for liposuction alone, and more when operations are combined. As with bras, PPSI does not provide compression garments but helps patients buy them.

Reconstructive surgery and scar revision

Reconstruction on his profile spans congenital facial abnormalities, soft-tissue damage from injury or other causes, scar revision, and repair after illness that has affected appearance. Each case is individual, and we have no general guide for these problems. Send a description, photographs and relevant medical reports, and we will ask PPSI whether he can review your case.

Anti-aging medicine

The profile lists anti-aging medicine as a specialty but does not describe any treatments under it. If this is the main reason for your trip, ask our patient team to find out what PPSI offers before you book travel.

How a first consultation can happen. Before you travel, PPSI can hold a video tele-consultation with one of its plastic surgeons; you come away with a proposed operation and a quoted price, and Crisalix 3D simulations can be generated from your photos. If you want the video call to be with Dr. Piyapas rather than another PPSI surgeon, say so in your request, and ask whether a simulation can be made for your procedure; treat the image as a visual aid for discussion rather than a forecast. For most consultation slots PPSI asks for at least a week's notice. Whatever is agreed from photos stays provisional until he has seen you face to face in Phuket.

Questions to put to Dr. Piyapas, by procedure

• Hair transplant: Would you use FUE or FUT on my donor area, and what makes one better suited? How many grafts do you expect to place, and how much donor reserve would that leave for the future? Which parts of the day do you do yourself? Do you advise medication before or after surgery?
• Rhinoplasty: Is my request mainly reduction, augmentation or a mix? Cartilage or implant, open or closed, and why?
• Eyelids: Upper, lower or both? Could part of my concern come from ptosis or a low brow instead?
• Face and neck: Which lifting technique, how many hospital nights, and when do the stitches come out?
• Breasts: Which implant brand, profile, size and pocket would you choose for me? If I also need a lift, would you combine or stage it?
• Body: What is a safe liposuction volume for me? Will there be drains, and what clot prevention do you recommend before I fly?

Questions that apply whatever the procedure

• Will surgery be in the Bangkok Hospital Siriroj building, and who will be my anaesthetist? PPSI states that each patient has dedicated one-to-one anaesthesiologist care.
• If a surgical team is involved, which surgeon does which part?
• Which costs are in the written quote: surgeon's fee, hospital, anaesthesia, garments, follow-up?
• If something goes wrong, or I want a revision during the first year, how would PPSI's published surgical promise conditions apply to my case?
• How soon after the operation could I board a flight, and what is the contact route for questions from overseas?

Have a list of your prescription medicines and supplements ready, and be open about smoking or vaping: our facelift and tummy tuck guides both warn that nicotine increases wound-healing problems.

Dr. Piyapas's own profiles give English and Thai. For other languages, PPSI says its international patient coordinators work in English, Chinese and French.

Arrangements PPSI lists for patients from abroad

• Transport: PPSI's drivers and vehicles handle the airport run and trips between your hotel and the hospital. The service is free for overseas or agency patients whose procedure exceeds a value set by the institute and is charged otherwise; the institute's FAQ quotes two different figures for that threshold, so we will check the current one for you.
• Accommodation: staff can suggest hotels.
• Aftercare: scheduled follow-up at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery, and an online consultation arranged by the coordinator if a problem appears once you are back home.
• Payment: PPSI accepts cash, credit cards, Australian bank deposits and overseas bank deposits, and expects settlement in full ahead of the operation.
• Surgical promise: a complication or dissatisfaction you report within 12 months is first reviewed by the operating surgeon. For complex cases PPSI convenes a Surgical Review and Risk Management Committee, whose members include two or more senior plastic surgeons plus a risk-management doctor from the hospital, and that panel decides case by case where responsibility for any revision lies. The conditions are published, so read them before paying.

Accreditation of the host hospital. In Joint Commission International's directory, Bangkok Hospital Siriroj appears as accredited under the JCI hospital programme, listed as effective from 15 December 2012; the directory entry carries no expiry. PPSI works inside that hospital; the accreditation belongs to the hospital and is not a separate award to the institute. According to PPSI, positive-pressure systems are used in its operating rooms. Accreditation reflects how a hospital's systems measured up when surveyed and cannot tell you how any individual operation will turn out.

We have no information on overseas-patient services at Mission Hospital, Phuket, or at the Jungceylon clinic in Kathu.

Time to allow in Phuket. These general ranges come from our procedure guides; Dr. Piyapas confirms when you are fit to fly:

• FUE or FUT hair transplant: around 3–5 days
• Eyelid surgery: around 5–7 days
• Rhinoplasty, liposuction or breast augmentation: around 7–10 days
• Facelift or neck lift, breast lift, breast reduction: around 10–14 days
• Tummy tuck: around 12–14 days, longer for combined surgery

Staying near the hospital. Bangkok Hospital Siriroj stands on Chalermprakiat Rama 9 Road in the Wichit subdistrict of Mueang Phuket, the island's main town. Phuket International Airport lies at the northern end of the island, and the drive from the west-coast beaches into town can be slow at busy times, so it can make sense to stay near the hospital for the first days and use the transfers. Recovering on an island has its own rules: surgeons commonly ask patients to keep out of the sea and swimming pools until wounds have healed and to protect scars from strong sun, and compression garments can feel uncomfortable in the heat. Our Phuket guide covers the seasons and flight connections.

Dr. Piyapas can only be as specific in a first opinion as the material you send allows, and the same goes for PPSI's quote. Photograph in soft daylight against a plain wall, with no filters, and without make-up for facial procedures.

Hair restoration (FUE or FUT)

• Dry, unstyled hair photographed from the front hairline, from above, at the crown, from each side and from behind, so the donor zone is visible.
• When the thinning began, any family history, and every treatment tried, with approximate dates and results.
• Any earlier transplant: where it was done, which method, and the graft count if you have it.
• Women: any diagnosis of the cause of hair loss, since the cause is assessed before surgery is planned.

Nose surgery

• Four views of the nose: straight on, left and right profile, and from underneath.
• Past nasal surgery or trauma, difficulty breathing through the nose, and hay fever or other allergies.
• One or two lines on whether you want the nose smaller, higher or reshaped.

Eyelids, face or neck

• A front photo with eyes open and another with eyes gently shut, plus side and three-quarter views with hair pulled back.
• Dry eye, glaucoma, thyroid eye problems, contact lens wear and any recent eye examination.

Breast procedures

• Front, left, right and three-quarter photographs of the chest.
• Height, weight, your present cup size and the size you have in mind.
• With existing implants: the implant details from your earlier surgery, the operation report and any scan or mammogram reports.
• Whether you plan a pregnancy or to breastfeed.

Tummy tuck, liposuction or fat transfer

• Standing photos from the front, side and back, and a note of whether your weight has been steady.
• Future pregnancy plans and past abdominal operations, including caesarean sections.

Scars and reconstruction

• Photos of the affected area and any records explaining what caused it.

With every request: your general medical history, the medicines and supplements you take (anticoagulants and other products that can increase bleeding matter most), allergies, smoking or nicotine use, your intended travel dates, and whether you would like to start with an online or an in-person consultation.