Asst. Prof. Dr. Puttan Wongtriratanachai

Asst. Prof. Dr. Puttan Wongtriratanachai (Thai: ผศ.พญ. พุดตาน วงศ์ตรีรัตนชัย) is a female plastic surgeon based in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. At Chiang Mai University she is an Assistant Professor in the Plastic Surgery Unit, within the Department of Surgery of the university's medical faculty, which also runs Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. She studied medicine and did her general surgery residency at Chiang Mai University, then moved to Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok for plastic surgery, and she holds Thai board certificates in both specialties. Her entry appears on the website of ThPRS, the professional body that Thai plastic and reconstructive surgeons join.

Besides her university role, official pages link her to four places where patients can see her: - Sriphat Medical Center, which belongs to the same Faculty of Medicine: the Surgery Clinic on the 5th floor of the Sriphat OPD building - Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, a private hospital: the Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery Clinic and the Surgery Department - Chiangmai Ram Hospital, a private hospital: a Saturday session at Dermatology & Laser, Chiangmai Ram Health Center - Dr.Puttan Plastic Surgery (คลินิกศัลยกรรมตกแต่งหมอพุดตาน), her own cosmetic surgery clinic at 17/2-3 Khan Khlong Chonprathan Road, Suthep, Mueang Chiang Mai

Everything we list about her operations comes from that clinic's website, which describes the clinic as run by her and offering consultations and cosmetic surgery. The pages cover five areas: the nose (augmentation rhinoplasty, alar base reduction and tip refinement); the eyelids (creating a double eyelid crease, removing excess upper lid skin and reducing lower lid fat bags); prominent ears; the face and neck (facelift, neck lift and chin implants); and the breasts and body (augmentation, lift, reduction, liposuction and tummy tuck). Thai and English are the languages her hospital profiles give.

If you would like her opinion, request a consultation with Asst. Prof. Dr. Puttan and say which of her five settings suits you, or leave the choice open. Our patient team passes your request to that facility, checks her free sessions and then tells you what is possible; a date is fixed only once the hospital or her clinic has confirmed it.

Dr. Puttan's training began and ended in Chiang Mai, with a period in Bangkok for plastic surgery in between. The dates below come from her profiles at Chiangmai Ram Hospital and Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai and from the CV on her clinic's website; where they disagree, we point it out.

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Chiang Mai University, 2000. Her clinic's Thai text places her medical studies in BE 2537–2542 (about 1994–1999); both hospital profiles date the degree to 2000.
• Residency in surgery, 2000–2004, at Chiang Mai University's Department of Surgery (dates from her clinic CV).
• Thai Board in General Surgery, 2005, Chiang Mai University.
• Residency in plastic surgery, 2005–2006, in Chulalongkorn University's Department of Surgery, based at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok (dates from her clinic CV). Chulalongkorn's plastic surgery alumni page lists her in its 23rd class.
• Thai Board in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2007, Chulalongkorn University. Both hospital profiles say 2007; her clinic's CV says 2006. We use 2007.
• Certification of Breast Reconstruction and Microvascular Surgical Fellowship program, 2018, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, United States. Only her clinic's website mentions this, and it gives no length for the programme, so we record a certificate rather than a completed fellowship.

In plain terms, she holds two Thai specialist boards: general surgery first, then plastic and reconstructive surgery. Chiangmai Ram's profile mirrors this in the two clinical interests it gives for her, plastic and reconstructive surgery and general surgery. The 2018 programme in Michigan dealt with rebuilding the breast and with microsurgery, the joining of tiny blood vessels under a microscope. That is reconstructive work, separate from the cosmetic operations listed on this page.

Professional societies. We checked the ThPRS directory ourselves. Her entry gives two addresses, the Department of Surgery at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital and her Suthep clinic, so we mark this membership as verified. Her clinic's About page claims two further memberships, ThSAPS (full name: Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand) is one; the other, stated on a separate line, is the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand. ThSAPS has no public member list, so both rest on her own statement.

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 her Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai profile does include a licence number field. To check for yourself, search the register using her Thai name, พุดตาน วงศ์ตรีรัตนชัย; our patient team can help if the site gives you trouble. Which sources we trust for each type of fact is explained on our research methodology page.

Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Medicine. The CV on her clinic's website says she became an instructor in the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, in 2007, the same year as her plastic surgery board. Chiang Mai University and Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai now give her rank as Assistant Professor (ผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์), and the Department of Surgery's staff pages list her in its Plastic Surgery Unit. No source gives the year of that promotion. Chiangmai Ram's profile describes her university work as part-time teaching, whereas the university's own staff pages list her as a member of the unit without a part-time label; we follow the university. The Faculty's hospital is Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, which appears as one of her addresses in the ThPRS directory.

Sriphat Medical Center. Sriphat's doctor profile names her as a plastic surgeon in the Surgery Clinic on the 5th floor of the Sriphat OPD building. We relied on the archived copy of the Sriphat website from May 2026. Sriphat is run by the same Faculty of Medicine and has its own Surgery Clinic and Surgery Center.

Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai. Here her profile lists two departments: Surgery, and the Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery Clinic. According to the hospital, its plastic and cosmetic surgery clinic handles breast, body and facial procedures, among them body contouring after major weight loss.

Chiangmai Ram Hospital. She is one of the plastic surgeons in Chiangmai Ram's doctor directory, with a Saturday session at Dermatology & Laser, Chiangmai Ram Health Center. A remark on the hospital's map puts the Health Center on Boonruangrit Road, 50 metres before the main hospital.

Dr.Puttan Plastic Surgery. Her own clinic in Suthep offers consultations and cosmetic surgery and is run by her. Every procedure on this profile is taken from its website.

Clinic times as published. The sources do not agree, and some may be out of date: - Her clinic's website: weekday evenings 17:00–20:00 except Thursday, and Saturday 09:00–12:00; closed Thursday and Sunday. The same site lists a Saturday afternoon session (14:00–17:00) at Chiangmai Ram Health Center and a Thursday midday session at Sriphat on the 12th floor. - Sriphat's archived profile (May 2026): Monday 11:00–12:00 at the 5th-floor Surgery Clinic. - Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai's schedule data: Monday 17:00–18:00 and Tuesday 17:00–19:00 in its Surgery Unit, for late September to December 2026.

Because of these differences, our patient team checks the day and the place with the facility before you plan any travel.

Research. PubMed lists two papers that name her as an author with a Chiang Mai University plastic surgery affiliation: - 'DIEP flap salvage by cannula venesection of the superficial inferior epigastric vein', European Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2016. A DIEP flap rebuilds the breast using skin and fat moved from the lower abdomen. - 'Positioning of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve and Surgical Implications: A Study on Thai Mandibles', Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2025, an anatomical study of the nerve that runs through the lower jaw.

Other PubMed records under the same surname belong to a different Chiang Mai University author in orthopaedics. Her papers reflect research interests; they are not a list of the operations she offers private patients. We found no public, independent figure for how many operations she has performed, so if experience with your procedure matters to you, ask her at the consultation.

All of the procedures below come from her clinic's website (หมอพุดตาน.com). Some have a service page with a description; others appear only as a menu item or a page title, and we note which, because it shows how much she has published about each. The notes are general guidance from our procedure guides, not her personal protocols; her own advice follows an examination. Her pages also do not say which operations take place at the clinic and which in one of her hospitals, so raise that when you ask for a consultation.

Nose: augmentation rhinoplasty, alar base reduction and tip refinement. The clinic's nose page carries the title เสริมจมูก-ตัดปีก-แต่งปลาย, which translates as nose augmentation, alar trimming and tip refinement. Its text covers augmentation with a silicone implant and reshaping of the tip with cartilage taken from the ear, and it notes that stitches are removed when the nostrils have been trimmed. The home page also names rhinoplasty and alarplasty. Related guides: rhinoplasty, Asian rhinoplasty, tip rhinoplasty and alar base reduction.

What this means in general terms: augmentation is meant to build up a flat bridge or bring the tip forward, not to shrink the nose. Her pages name two building materials, silicone and ear cartilage. Other surgeons also use ePTFE, septal cartilage or rib cartilage, and each option behaves differently in feel, infection risk and stability over the years, so ask why she would choose one for your nose. Trimming the alar base removes a small piece of skin where each nostril joins the cheek, and the scar usually lies in that natural fold. Plan on 7–10 days in Thailand, the usual range in our rhinoplasty guide; the external splint and any stitches generally come off between days 5 and 10. The tip goes on refining for many months, which is why surgeons generally wait at least a year before considering a revision. Implant-specific problems include infection, the implant shifting and, less often, the implant working its way through the skin, any of which may mean taking it out. Her pages do not document revision rhinoplasty, so mention earlier nose surgery or fillers in your first message.

Eyelids: double eyelid, upper eyelid and lower eyelid surgery. On the clinic home page, three separate sections deal with creating a double eyelid crease in Asian eyelids (ศัลยกรรมทำตาสองชั้น), removing drooping upper eyelid skin, known medically as dermatochalasia, and reducing the fat bags beneath the eyes. The dedicated eyelid page is titled ตา2ชั้น-แต่งหนังตา-ลดถุงใต้ตา. Related guides: blepharoplasty, double eyelid surgery, upper eyelid surgery and lower eyelid surgery.

General points to raise with her: a crease can be made through an open incision, which also allows skin and fat to be removed, or with buried sutures in thin lids that have little spare skin, a quicker option whose fold can loosen with time. For older upper lids, the excess skin is taken out along the line where the crease will sit, so the scar hides when the eyes are open. Lower lid fat bags can be reduced from inside the lid when the skin is firm, or through a cut just beneath the lashes when the skin also needs tightening. If the lid margin itself rides low over the eye because the muscle that raises it is weak or stretched (ptosis), that calls for a separate muscle repair; ptosis correction is not on her documented list, so ask what she would advise if she finds it. Tell her about dry eye, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease or any sight problems before a plan is made. Our blepharoplasty guide says most bruising fades within 1–2 weeks, while 5–7 days in Thailand is the usual range in our double eyelid guide. In the first weeks a fresh crease tends to look taller and sharper than it will once the swelling has gone, so early photos are not the final result.

Prominent ears (otoplasty). A clinic service page headed แก้ไขใบหูกาง describes correction of prominent ears, and otoplasty is also on the home page list. See our otoplasty guide. As general background, the ear cartilage is reshaped via an incision hidden in the groove at the back of the ear, by folding it with permanent stitches, scoring it lightly or removing a sliver from the bowl of the ear. Our guide notes that adults usually have the operation under local anaesthesia. Her page does not mention treating children, so ask first if the patient is a child. From about week 2 to week 6, a soft elastic band around the head is often worn overnight to protect the new position, and the usual time in Thailand listed in the guide is 5–7 days. Possible problems include the two ears settling differently, partial return towards the original position, and stitches that work their way to the surface.

Facelift and neck lift. The clinic's service menu includes facelift (ผ่าตัดดึงหน้า), and the page behind it has the title ผ่าตัดดึงหน้า-ดึงคอ, meaning face and neck lifting. The page has no body text, so her approach is not published. Related guides: facelift and neck lift. In general terms, a facelift treats jowls and a loose jawline by tightening and resetting the tissue layer under the skin of the cheeks, jaw and upper neck, then trimming what skin is left over. A low brow, hooded eyelids and fine surface creases are not changed by it, which is why it is sometimes combined with other operations. Surgeons describe their lifts in different ways, from limited short-scar lifts to SMAS and deep-plane approaches, so ask her which she would use for you and where the scars would run. The significant complication our facelift guide sees most often is a haematoma, blood collecting beneath the lifted skin, which may have to be drained. Smokers have a higher risk of problems with skin healing and should expect to be asked to stop. Most bruising has faded by weeks 2–3, and the facelift guide suggests budgeting 10–14 days in Thailand.

Chin augmentation. Her clinic's เสริมคาง (chin augmentation) page describes a silicone chin implant inserted under local anaesthesia. We have not yet published a full chin augmentation guide, so for now bring your questions to her: the implant's shape and size, where the incision goes (in general, either inside the mouth or under the chin), what recovery she expects, and what might lead to the implant being taken out. If you are also considering nose augmentation, ask whether she would plan both at once, since chin and nose together set the balance of your profile.

Breasts: augmentation, lift and reduction. The clinic page เสริมหน้าอก-ยกกระชับเต้านม describes breast augmentation with implants, and its title adds breast lift. A separate page titled ตัดเต้านม / ลดขนาดเต้านม covers breast reduction but has no descriptive text. Related guides: breast augmentation, breast lift and breast reduction. - Augmentation: the choices to talk through with her are the implant's filling (silicone gel or saline), its profile (round, or teardrop-shaped anatomical), its shell (smooth or textured; certain textured shells have been linked to BIA-ALCL, a rare lymphoma), where the incision goes (the breast fold, the lower rim of the areola or the armpit) and whether she would place it on top of the pectoral muscle or tuck it partly beneath. Implants may need replacing at some point in life, so keep the implant card, with brand, size and serial number, that you should be given before you leave Chiang Mai. Allow 7–10 days in Thailand, the range in our augmentation guide. - Lift: a lift trims skin and reshapes the breast so that the nipple and areola sit higher. The more lift needed, the longer the scar pattern, which runs from a ring around the areola to a vertical 'lollipop' scar and then an anchor shape. Our breast lift guide notes that combining the lift with implants in one sitting is a bigger undertaking and ends in further surgery more often than a lift or an augmentation alone, so ask if she would combine them or split them into two operations. Common stay: 10–14 days. - Reduction: removing breast tissue, fat and skin makes the breasts smaller and lighter and lifts them at the same time, and many people ask for it because of neck, back and shoulder pain. Your ability to breastfeed afterwards may be affected, which matters if you plan a pregnancy. Common stay: 10–14 days.

The reduction page title also includes ตัดเต้านม (breast removal) without explaining what it refers to, so we do not list mastectomy, gynecomastia surgery or chest surgery for her.

Liposuction and tummy tuck. A clinic page titled ดูดไขมัน-ตัดไขมันหน้าท้อง (liposuction, abdominal fat excision) describes abdominoplasty, which the page also calls lipectomy and tummy tuck. Liposuction appears in the page title and the service menu. Related guides: liposuction and tummy tuck. Some general background: liposuction takes out stubborn fat deposits through small incisions with a thin cannula; it reshapes rather than reduces weight, and it cannot firm up loose skin. An abdominoplasty cuts away the loose apron of lower-abdominal skin and fat between the belly button and the pubic area, and usually also stitches separated abdominal muscles back together. Our tummy tuck guide lists blood clots among its possible complications, alongside fluid collection, bleeding, infection and wound healing problems that are more likely in smokers; ask what clot prevention she uses, particularly as you will have a long flight home. For time in Thailand, our guides list 7–10 days for liposuction; a tummy tuck needs longer, 12–14 days.

Other services on her clinic's website. The site also mentions lip surgery (ปากกระจับ), fat injection, scar treatment, mole (naevus) surgery and injectable treatments. We have not added these as procedures, because the pages either do not describe them clearly or do not say which area is treated. Our patient team can ask about any of them for you.

Because Dr. Puttan divides her time between a university medical centre, two private hospitals and her own clinic, start by asking where and how your operation would be done. The procedure-specific questions come after that.

Setting and anaesthesia - Would you operate on me at your Suthep clinic, at Sriphat Medical Center, at Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai or at Chiangmai Ram Hospital, and what decides that for my procedure? - Is the plan local anaesthesia, sedation or a general anaesthetic, and who looks after the anaesthesia? - Do I stay overnight, and where would I be transferred if I needed more care? - Where are my follow-up checks, and who answers the phone at night in the first days?

Procedure-specific - Nose or chin: silicone, ear cartilage or something else for me? Which implant brand and size, and in what circumstances would it come out? (Her pages mention silicone for both and ear cartilage for the nasal tip.) - Eyelids: an open incision or buried sutures for my crease, and is any of my lid droop actually ptosis? - Breasts: which implant fill, shape and shell, which incision, above or below the muscle, and do I need a lift, now or later? - Face and neck: which kind of lift, where will the scars be, and is the neck included? - Abdomen and body: which areas, what volume she considers safe to remove at one time, and will the tummy tuck include muscle repair?

Plan, price and after you go home - Could you give me a rough yearly figure for the procedures of this kind you personally perform? No case numbers for her are published anywhere we looked. - Which items are in the written estimate, and who pays if a revision is needed? - On which day could I fly, and how do follow-up questions reach you once I am back home?

If you start by sending photos from home, treat any plan that comes back as a first opinion: she will firm it up, or revise it, once she has seen you face to face in Chiang Mai. Her profiles do not say whether she offers video consultations; our patient team can find out. Thai and English are listed for her. For consultations in another language, Chiangmai Ram arranges interpreters if you ask in advance, and Sriphat's Foreign Center offers interpreting too.

Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, and every place Dr. Puttan works is in Mueang Chiang Mai district. The flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai International Airport (CNX) takes about 1 hour 15 minutes, and the airport sits close to the city. Our Chiang Mai guide covers where to stay and getting around during recovery.

Smoky season. Farm burning and forest fires push fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) up across the north in the dry months, roughly February to April. If you are planning nose, eyelid or face surgery with her, or you have asthma, talk to her about timing and look at air-quality forecasts before fixing dates.

What her facilities say about international patients - Chiangmai Ram Hospital, 8 Boonreungrit Road: shown as accredited in the JCI directory when we checked in September 2026. Its International Patients Services arrange medical interpreters for seven languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Burmese, French and German); ask for one when you book. There is a 24-hour emergency service. Her Saturday session is at the hospital's Health Center on the same road. - Sriphat Medical Center, 110/392 Inthawarorot Road: its Foreign Center helps with interpreters and international insurance, and the languages listed are Thai, English, Japanese, Chinese and Burmese. - Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai: the hospital says it has an international patient desk. - Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, 110 Inthawarorot Road: the Faculty of Medicine's hospital; we hold no details of its international services. - Dr.Puttan Plastic Surgery, Suthep: publishes nothing on international services, accreditation or its operating facilities. If she proposes operating there, ask about the operating room, who gives the anaesthetic and the transfer plan in an emergency.

Of her five facilities, only Chiangmai Ram currently has an accreditation on our records; for the other four we simply have none on file yet, which says nothing either way about their standards.

Typical time in Thailand for her procedures (figures from our procedure guides; Dr. Puttan decides your fitness to fly) - Double eyelid surgery: 5–7 days - Ear correction: 5–7 days - Nose surgery: 7–10 days - Breast implants: 7–10 days - Liposuction: 7–10 days - Breast lift or breast reduction: 10–14 days - Facelift, including the neck: 10–14 days - Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck): 12–14 days

We have no typical stay yet for chin augmentation or a stand-alone neck lift, so ask her. For recovery, pack loose clothes that open at the front, stay close to the facility treating you, keep a few days in reserve in case a check-up is moved, and find out before you leave home how she deals with questions after your return home.

The more she can see and read at the start, the more useful her first opinion, and the easier it is for our patient team to route your request to the right facility. Send only what you are comfortable sharing, and only through the channel our team gives you.

Every request - Your age and home country, which of her procedures you are considering, and the change you are hoping for - Travel dates and any facility preference - Health conditions, regular medicines and supplements (flag any blood thinners, aspirin, ibuprofen or herbal remedies), allergies, and whether you smoke, vape or use other nicotine products - Any operation you have already had on the same area, with dates and the implant or material if you know it

Photos for each area she treats (plain background, even lighting, no filters, and no make-up for face photos) - Nose: straight on, both profiles and a view of the base from below; tell her about previous nose surgery, injuries, fillers, blocked breathing or allergies - Eyelids: close-ups straight on with the eyes open and then lightly closed; say whether you have dry or gritty eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease or any sight problem, and whether you wear contact lenses - Ears: a face-on shot, then side and rear close-ups of the left and the right ear - Chin: straight on and both profiles with the teeth together and the lips relaxed; if you are also asking about your nose, the same profile photos serve both - Face and neck: straight on, both profiles and both three-quarter angles, with the head level - Breasts: facing the camera, turned fully left and right, and at a three-quarter turn each way, arms relaxed by your sides; your current and hoped-for size, any plans for pregnancy or breastfeeding, recent breast imaging and the implant card for any implants already in place - Abdomen and body: front, sides and back of the areas concerned; height, weight and whether your weight is steady, future pregnancy plans and any past blood clot

If you are unsure what a photo should show, our patient team can ask her facility what she prefers.