Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya

Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya (Thai: นพ. พรชัย มไหสวริยะ) is a Bangkok ophthalmologist who subspecialises in oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery. That field covers operations on the lids, on the tear drainage passages and on the orbit, meaning the bony socket around the eye. He came to eyelid surgery as an eye specialist, not via general plastic surgery: his Thai board certification is in ophthalmology, and the fellowship he completed abroad, in the United Kingdom, was in oculoplastic surgery.

Of the procedures ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com covers, two appear on his official profiles: blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and ptosis correction, which raises an upper lid whose margin rests too low. Both are named under his special expertise on the Thai-language profile published by Bangkok Eye Hospital, and the English version of that page describes him treating eyelid disorders and also offering 'cosmetic periocular rejuvenation'. The rest of his listed work, including cataract, general eye care, tear duct surgery and orbital surgery, is medical ophthalmology outside the scope of this site.

When we checked on 27 September 2026, five Bangkok hospitals listed him:

• [Bumrungrad International Hospital](/hospital/bumrungrad-international-hospital/): the Eye Center (Building A, level 18), where his labels are Comprehensive Ophthalmology and Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery.
• [Ramathibodi Hospital](/hospital/ramathibodi-hospital/) (Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University): a special lecturer in the Department of Ophthalmology who holds a weekly afternoon session in its Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic.
• Bangkok Eye Hospital: titled 'Ophthalmology Expert in Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery'.
• Rutnin Eye Hospital (Asoke): subspecialties given as general ophthalmology, cataract and lacrimal system oculoplasty.
• Bangpo Hospital (Bang Sue): ophthalmologist with an evening clinic on two Saturdays each month.

Two ophthalmology bodies name him in their own public records. Thailand's ophthalmic plastic surgery society, ThaiSOPRS, returns his entry in its online member search, shows him as a Club Advisor on its leadership page and counts him among its founding members. RCOPT (Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand) also lists him in its public eye-doctor search.

For a heavy, hooded or drooping upper lid, you can request a consultation with Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya. Say which of his hospitals suits you; our patient team contacts that hospital, comes back to you with the appointment options it gives, and you have an appointment only after the hospital itself says yes.

The path set out on Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya's hospital profiles runs from a Thai medical degree, through ophthalmology residency and the Thai board, to oculoplastic fellowship training in England. His profiles do not all match, and where they differ we show the difference instead of silently choosing one version.

• Medical degree (1986): Doctor of Medicine, Mahidol University (Siriraj Hospital faculty of medicine), per his Bumrungrad profile; its Thai version dates it 2529 in the Buddhist calendar. Rutnin Eye Hospital also names Siriraj. Bangpo Hospital instead credits the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, and the Bangkok Eye Hospital profile names Siriraj in one part and Ramathibodi in another. Both schools belong to Mahidol University; we show Siriraj because his Bumrungrad and Rutnin profiles give the same answer.
• Ophthalmology residency: at Ramathibodi Hospital (Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University), according to Rutnin Eye Hospital and Bangkok Eye Hospital. Neither gives a year.
• Higher graduate diploma in ophthalmology: named on the Rutnin and Bangpo Hospital profiles, neither of which says which institution awarded it.
• Board certification (1998): Diploma of the Thai Board of Ophthalmology (Buddhist year 2541), on his Bumrungrad profile. Rutnin records the same qualification as a Diploma in Ophthalmology from the Medical Council of Thailand.
• Oculoplastic fellowship (1999): in the United Kingdom. The name of the NHS trust varies: Bumrungrad has 'North West NHS Trusts, London', Rutnin has 'Northeast NHS Trust, London', and Bangkok Eye Hospital gives only the country. The subject and the country are consistent across all three, and the year 1999 comes from Bumrungrad. Read the exact trust name as unconfirmed.

A further certificate is listed only in the English text of one hospital's profile. It is missing from the Thai text of that same page and from the profiles of his other four hospitals, so we have not included it.

Research papers. PubMed indexes two articles that name Pornchai Mahaisavariya with an affiliation to the Department of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital. The 2019 article, in the *Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes*, reports how a Thai version of the Graves' ophthalmopathy quality-of-life (GO-QOL) questionnaire was developed and how its psychometric properties were tested. The 2018 article, in *Molecular and Clinical Oncology*, is a clinicopathological report with a review of the literature on a lacrimal myoepithelial carcinoma that arose from a recurrent pleomorphic adenoma. Ophthalmic pathology is the field of interest recorded against his name in RCOPT's directory.

Medical licence. Rutnin Eye Hospital publishes his licence to practise medicine as ว.13037. We tried to verify ว.13037 ourselves on 27 September 2026 at checkmd.tmc.or.th (the doctor lookup operated by Thailand's Medical Council), but a Cloudflare block page appeared instead of any result. So the number here is Rutnin's, not one we have matched to the register; you can repeat the search yourself before you travel.

How long he has practised and how many eyelid operations he has carried out are not stated on any profile we read; we have not guessed at either. If you want to know how we verified what is written here, our provider research methodology sets out the steps.

Dr. Pornchai's published clinic time is spread across quite different settings: a private international hospital, a university teaching hospital, two specialist eye hospitals and Bangpo Hospital in Bang Sue. The roles and hours below were taken from each hospital's own web page on 27 September 2026. Sessions can move, so our team rechecks the day with the hospital before proposing any appointment.

• Bumrungrad International Hospital (Soi Nana Nua, 33 Sukhumvit 3, in Wattana district): ophthalmologist, labelled Comprehensive Ophthalmology and Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery; the Thai label, ศัลยกรรมตกแต่งรอบดวงตา, translates as surgery around the eyes. The Eye Center, up on level 18 of Building A, is where he is listed, with one session a week, Thursday 13:00–15:00.
• Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University (Rama VI Road, Ratchathewi): named among the Department of Ophthalmology's special lecturers (อาจารย์พิเศษ), not its full-time academic staff, and without an academic rank, so this page calls him Dr. rather than by a professorial title. His session in the department's Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic runs on Wednesday, 13:00–16:00. The faculty's experts database files him under the department's orbital and reconstructive surgery branch (สาขาวิชาศัลยกรรมกระดูกเบ้าตาและเสริมสร้าง).
• Bangkok Eye Hospital: his title there is 'Ophthalmology Expert in Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery', and the English profile gives his specialties as oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery, lacrimal and orbital diseases, cataract and general ophthalmology. Its Thai profile adds a list of special expertise: eyelid surgery, ptosis correction, tear duct surgery and orbital surgery.
• Rutnin Eye Hospital (80/1 Sukhumvit 21 Road, Asoke, Vadhana): ophthalmologist whose listed subspecialties are general ophthalmology, cataract and lacrimal system oculoplasty.
• Bangpo Hospital (95 Pracharat Sai 2 Road, Bang Sue): ophthalmologist (จักษุแพทย์), seeing patients on the second and fourth Saturday of the month from 17:00 to 20:00.

Bumrungrad and Ramathibodi both have hospital profiles on ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com. We have not yet researched Bangkok Eye Hospital, Rutnin Eye Hospital or Bangpo Hospital, so this page does not describe their facilities or patient services.

Professional bodies

• ThaiSOPRS (Thai Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery): his name comes up on three of the society's pages. A search of its member directory returns his entry; the leadership page shows him as Club Advisor within the executive committee; and the founding-members page records him on the academic committee (คณะกรรมการวิชาการ). His Bangkok Eye Hospital profile calls the same organisation the Thai Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery Society (TOPRS).
• Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand (RCOPT): his entry in the college's public search for ophthalmologists gives Bangkok as his contact location.
• Medical Association of Thailand: Bangkok Eye Hospital states that he is a member; we found no public list to check this against.

His name is absent from ThPRS, the plastic surgeons' society, whose membership pages we read through one by one. For an ophthalmologist this is not a gap: the society that matches his specialty is ThaiSOPRS, described above.

This section covers the two procedures that an official hospital profile connects to Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya; the source for each is shown in the procedures list on this page. For each one we first set out what his profiles actually record, then add background from our own procedure guides. That background describes eyelid surgery in general and says nothing about his personal outcomes. Only an examination can show whether either operation is right for you.

### Blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery)

What is documented. Eyelid surgery (ผ่าตัดเปลือกตา) is named under his special expertise on Bangkok Eye Hospital's Thai profile. The English page says he manages eyelid disorders and also 'cosmetic periocular rejuvenation', meaning cosmetic work around the eyes. Bumrungrad lists him under Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery, the part of ophthalmology concerned with the lids and the structures around them.

In general. Our blepharoplasty guide describes the operation as dealing with surplus skin, fat and muscle of the eyelids, either removing it or moving it to a new position, whether on the top lids, the bottom lids or all four. On the upper lid (upper eyelid surgery) the target is hooding: the scar is hidden in the natural lid crease, and where drooping skin cuts off the top of the field of view, removing it may help sight. On the lower lid (lower eyelid surgery) the target is puffy under-eye bags, which the surgeon reaches either through a cut placed just under the lash line or from behind, through the lining of the lid; that transconjunctival approach leaves no scar on the skin. The guide adds that in Thailand these operations are frequently done under local anaesthetic with sedation, that general anaesthesia is used for some lower-lid or combined cases, and that it usually takes about 1–2 hours as a day case.

What his profiles leave open. None of them says whether he operates on upper lids, lower lids or both, which lower-lid approach he prefers, or which type of anaesthesia he usually uses. Each of these shapes the recovery and the cost, so they make good opening questions.

### Ptosis correction

What is documented. Bangkok Eye Hospital's Thai profile lists ptosis correction (แก้ไขหนังตาตก) under his special expertise, and repeats eyelid and ptosis surgery (การผ่าตัดแก้ไขเปลือกตา และภาวะหนังตาตก) in its list of his specializations.

In general. Ptosis correction treats a problem that can look like hooding but has a different cause. In ptosis the margin of the upper lid itself rests too low over the eye, and our eyelid guide explains that correcting it calls for muscle repair rather than simply trimming skin. Some people have spare skin and ptosis together, which is why the lid margin is assessed whenever heavy upper lids are the complaint. For ptosis correction, too, our guides suggest allowing 5–7 days in Thailand, matching the window given for blepharoplasty.

Why his general eye work is relevant. Alongside oculoplastic surgery, his listed specialties include comprehensive ophthalmology. Our eyelid guide singles out dry eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease and existing vision problems as factors in the safety of eyelid surgery, and all of them belong to general eye care. One of his two indexed papers also concerns quality of life in Graves' (thyroid) eye disease. If any of these conditions applies to you, include it in your request.

### Eye procedures on his profiles that this site does not cover

Cataract surgery, general ophthalmology, lacrimal (tear duct) surgery and orbital surgery also appear on his profiles. They are medical eye treatments rather than cosmetic operations, ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com has no guides for them, and this page offers no advice on them.

### Related procedures not named on his profiles

Neither double eyelid surgery, which forms an upper lid crease, nor a brow lift appears on any official profile of Dr. Pornchai, and we have not linked him to either. When the eyebrow itself has descended, our eyelid guide points out that lifting the brow can be the more appropriate step; if that sounds like your situation, ask him whether he would manage it himself or refer you. Bumrungrad also has a separate unit whose service list includes blepharoplasty and forehead lift: the Plastic (Cosmetic) Surgery Center, on level 16 of Building A, two floors down from the Eye Center that lists him.

At a first visit an oculoplastic surgeon examines both the lids and the eyes, works out whether the complaint comes from spare skin, a low lid margin, a fallen brow or some combination, and sets out a plan. Because Dr. Pornchai's sessions are spread over several hospitals and weekdays, questions about where and when matter as much as the medical ones.

Diagnosis

• Is the heaviness I notice caused by extra skin, by ptosis, or by both, and what in the examination tells you?
• Is my eyebrow position part of the problem, and is that something you treat or would you refer me?
• Should my vision or visual field be tested before surgery, given that my lids feel heavy?
• Are my two sides different, and would you plan surgery on one eye or both?

The operation

• What technique do you propose, and where will the scars sit?
• Will I be awake with sedation under a local anaesthetic, or fully asleep under a general one? Our blepharoplasty guide says both are used, depending on which lids are treated and what is combined.
• Roughly how many operations like mine do you carry out? Our guide recommends putting this question to any surgeon you consider.
• At which of your hospitals would the surgery take place, and does the quote cover follow-up visits, stitch removal and any revision?

Safety and recovery

• How do my health conditions and medicines change the plan? Dry eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease and existing vision problems are the safety factors our eyelid guide highlights.
• Which complications apply to me? The risks our guide names are infection; a difference between the two sides; visible scars; eyes that feel dry or irritated; temporarily blurred vision; trouble shutting the eyes completely; a lower lid that is drawn down out of position (malposition); and, very rarely, bleeding behind the eyeball that affects eyesight.
• If a problem develops after I am home, what should I do and whom do I contact?
• When can I fly, swim, return to work and use eye make-up again?

Our blepharoplasty guide sketches a general recovery pattern. Puffiness and bruising are at their worst during roughly the first 2–3 days, and cold compresses plus a raised head ease them. Stitch removal usually falls at about 5–7 days. Within 1–2 weeks much of the bruising has gone, while the lids and scars keep refining over the following weeks to months. If eyelid surgery is followed by severe pain or by any drop in vision, treat it as an emergency and get medical help at once.

Cost. ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com publishes no prices for Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya; each hospital sets its own. Our guide lists what moves the price: whether upper, lower or both lids are treated, the type of anaesthesia, and anything done at the same time, such as a brow lift. Ask for the plan, and for what the price covers, in writing.

Dr. Pornchai Mahaisavariya's five listed hospitals are all in Bangkok. The support an overseas patient receives varies from one to the next, and our research covers some of them far more fully than others.

Bumrungrad International Hospital is the one of his hospitals whose international services we have documented in detail. Up on level 10 of Building A, its Medical Coordination Office supports international patients free of charge. The coordinating doctors and nurses there can work through your records ahead of the trip, give a cost estimate, arrange appointments or a telemedicine call and talk to insurers or embassies; they remain your point of contact during the admission, and after discharge they write up your medical report, provide a letter confirming you are fit to fly, and keep follow-up on track. Language help is extensive: Bumrungrad's factsheet puts its interpreter count above 130, and it assigns cultural support officers to medical travellers who prefer not to use English. Bumrungrad staffs a desk in the arrivals area at Suvarnabhumi Airport. From there a complimentary van runs roughly hourly, if enough passengers are waiting, to the hospital or hotels close to it, and there are also free shuttles to and from BTS Nana and BTS Phrom Phong. Hotel and flight bookings, and visa-extension paperwork for patients and companions, are handled through the hospital's Business Center. The JCI directory lists Bumrungrad as accredited, and HA Thailand's database dates the end of its current advanced-level re-accreditation to 22 May 2029. These awards judge how the hospital's systems are run, not the outcome of any one operation.

Ramathibodi Hospital is Mahidol University's university hospital for its Ramathibodi medical faculty; you will find it on Rama VI Road (number 270), Ratchathewi district. The hospital's own quality-development page displays its HA Thailand accreditation and re-accreditation certificates; ask the hospital for their validity dates. Our research did not find an international patient desk, so if his Wednesday clinic there suits you, ask our team what help with language and arrangements is available.

Bangkok Eye Hospital, Rutnin Eye Hospital and Bangpo Hospital have not yet been researched by us, and we cannot describe their services for patients from abroad.

How long to stay. For both blepharoplasty and ptosis correction our guides give a usual stay in Thailand of 5–7 days, which covers stitch removal and a wound check. People heal at different speeds, so a changeable return ticket is sensible, and it is the surgeon who clears you to fly.

Fitting a trip around his sessions. His listed clinics fall on fixed days: Thursday afternoon at Bumrungrad, Wednesday afternoon at Ramathibodi, and the second and fourth Saturday evenings at Bangpo. On a short trip, send our team your dates as early as you can so the first consultation can be lined up with one of those sessions.

For the journey. Pack sunglasses. Our blepharoplasty guide also says to keep away from swimming and eye cosmetics until you have been cleared, and to check with him about drops for your eyes during the flight.

Language. His Bumrungrad listing shows Thai and English. If you are seen at Bumrungrad, its interpreter service covers many other languages.

Good information lets the hospital choose the right clinic and appointment for you and decide whether an eye test should be arranged before you fly. Please share health information with us only via this site's booking form or its listed WhatsApp number.

For every request

• What bothers you about your eyelids, in your own words, and whether it affects one eye or both
• How long it has been present and whether it is getting worse
• Whether heavy lids interfere with your vision, for example when reading or driving
• Which of his hospitals you prefer, and your likely Bangkok dates
• Whether you want an opinion only or hope to have surgery on the same trip

Medical history

• Eye conditions you have had, such as glaucoma, thyroid eye disease or dry eyes
• Previous operations on the eyes, eyelids, brows or tear ducts, with dates and any reports you have
• Current medicines and supplements, and any allergies
• General health conditions and any past problems with anaesthesia

Photos (in good, even daylight, no make-up, glasses off, camera at eye level)

• Full face from the front, eyes open and on the lens
• The same view with the eyes gently closed
• Looking up, and looking down
• Each side of the face in profile
• A close-up of each eye, open
• For a drooping lid, an older photo showing how your eyes looked before the change, if you have one

Documents, if you have them

• A recent eye examination report or glasses prescription
• Any visual field test or specialist letter about your eyelids

Should your real concern be a cataract, a tear duct or the orbit rather than how the lids look or sit, mention that up front; the hospital can then route it to the right clinic.