Dr. Somboon Chaisrisawadisuk

Dr. Somboon Chaisrisawadisuk (Thai: นพ. สมบูรณ์ ชัยศรีสวัสดิ์สุข) practises plastic surgery in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Chiangmai Ram Hospital's current doctor profile records his specialty as Plastic Surgery and publishes weekday clinic sessions for him, Monday to Friday, in its Surgical Department. At Chiang Mai University he holds a special lecturer post, listed by the university's surgery department under its Plastic Surgery Unit, and his name has an entry in the public member directory of ThPRS, the professional body for plastic and reconstructive surgeons in Thailand.

Official records tie him to two hospitals in the city: - [Chiangmai Ram Hospital](/hospital/chiang-mai-ram-hospital/): a private hospital on Boonreungrit Road, officially opened in 1993, which Joint Commission International (JCI) lists as accredited in its directory. His weekday clinic is published here. - [Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital](/hospital/maharaj-nakorn-chiang-mai-hospital/): run as part of Chiang Mai University's medical faculty. His ThPRS entry gives its Plastic Surgery Unit as his second practice address.

Before you get in touch, it helps to know that far less is published about Dr. Somboon than about many surgeons on this site. Chiangmai Ram's profile states his specialty and the two languages he speaks, Thai and English, but its qualification, certificate, fellowship and clinical-interest fields are empty, and we found no official page naming the operations he carries out. This profile therefore links him to no procedure. The rest of his public record is academic: papers indexed in PubMed, the recent ones on conditions of the face and skull that are present from birth (cleft lip and palate, frontonasal dysplasia, encephalocele), and two older Chiang Mai University team papers on preventing amputations in diabetic foot disease.

To ask about an appointment, send a consultation request for Dr. Somboon. Our patient team forwards it to Chiangmai Ram or to the university hospital, reports back on what they can arrange, and treats nothing as fixed until the hospital itself has confirmed a date.

No official page we could find says where Dr. Somboon qualified in medicine, where he did his surgical residency, or which specialist board certificate or fellowship he holds. Chiangmai Ram's profile template has a field for each of these, and on his profile every one of them is empty, so this page lists no degree, board or fellowship for him. An empty field only shows what the hospital has chosen to publish. It is not evidence for or against his training, and it is a reasonable first thing to raise with the hospital.

What the official record does contain is three society listings and the academic title his university department uses.

ThPRS member directory. ThPRS publishes a searchable member list, and Dr. Somboon's entry on it, written in Thai and English and dated November 2019, gives two practice addresses: his unit at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital (plastic surgery, CMU Faculty of Medicine) and Chiangmai Ram Hospital on Boonruangrit Road. Where a licence number would go, the entry shows only a dash.

Surgeons' college record (RCST). Searching the college's public member list brings up his record as member no. 671, registered as a specialist (แพทย์เฉพาะทาง) in the field of surgery, with 18 February 2013 as his date of admission.

A former aesthetic surgery directory (ThSAPS). Until surgery.or.th went offline, the aesthetic surgeons' society ThSAPS kept a directory of aesthetic plastic surgeons there, and Dr. Somboon had an entry. That entry named the same two Chiang Mai hospitals; the society's executive committee last edited it in December 2009, and web-archive captures from July 2019 and January 2020 preserve it. ThSAPS publishes no current list online, so read this as a past listing: we cannot confirm that he is a member today.

How his university writes his title. Chiang Mai University's Department of Surgery spells his name 'Dr. Somboon Chaisrisawadisuk, MD.' and, in Thai, gives him the prefix อ.นพ. (อาจารย์, lecturer) with the note อาจารย์พิเศษ, special lecturer. We found no official page that calls him a professor or an associate professor, so this site uses 'Dr.'.

Licence check. Licensing of doctors in Thailand sits with the Medical Council of Thailand, and its public lookup is at checkmd.tmc.or.th. 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. A name search on the council's site, or a request to Chiangmai Ram for his licence number, will settle the point. Our research methodology sets out how we choose sources and why details we cannot confirm are left off this page.

Dr. Somboon's published roles span a private hospital and a university faculty in the same city. Neither source gives a start date, so we do not state how long he has held either post.

Plastic surgeon, Surgical Department, Chiangmai Ram Hospital (current). The hospital's doctor profile gives his specialty as Plastic Surgery (in Thai, ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง) and his clinic as the Surgical Department (แผนกศัลยกรรม), Monday to Friday. One practical point: in the hospital's online doctor directory he is filed under the Surgery specialty rather than under the Plastic Surgery filter, which shows three other doctors who hold their clinics at the Dermatology & Laser service of the Chiangmai Ram Health Center. If you look for him on the hospital's website, search by name. His link with Chiangmai Ram is not new: an archived February 2015 copy of the hospital's English schedule listed him, spelled 'Chaisrisawasdisuk', under its Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery clinic on weekdays.

Special lecturer, Plastic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University (current). On the department's staff page he sits under หน่วยศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง, its Plastic Surgery Unit, with the label อาจารย์พิเศษ (special lecturer). The page does not describe his clinical or teaching duties, and it does not say whether he sees private patients at the university's hospital. The link to Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital comes from his ThPRS entry, which names that hospital's plastic surgery unit as a practice address.

Research. A PubMed search of his full name returns six papers, and a seventh from 2007 lists him by his initials within the same author team; all seven appear in the publications list on this page. They fall into two groups: - Diabetic foot care (2007 and 2008). Two papers in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, from a Chiang Mai University Hospital team, describe developing and applying a diabetic foot protocol with the aim of reducing lower-extremity amputations. - Congenital craniofacial conditions (2023 to 2026). Five papers, four in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery and one in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, cover proboscis lateralis with basal encephalocele (2023), structural rhinoplasty for frontonasal dysplasia (2024), a palate-first, lip-second sequence of repair in bilateral cleft with a severely protruding premaxilla and late presentation (2025), a three-dimensional measurement study of the modified Onizuka technique for unilateral cleft lip repair (2026), and single-stage repair of frontoethmoidal encephalomeningocele through the nose, without a coronal incision (2026). Each gives his affiliation as the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University.

The five recent papers are co-authored with Dr. Sarut Chaisrisawadisuk of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, who has his own profile on our site. They are two different surgeons. Most papers indexed under 'Chaisrisawadisuk S' belong to Dr. Sarut, so check the first name when you read about either of them.

Most surgeon profiles on this site list the operations that an official page says the surgeon performs. For Dr. Somboon there is no such page, so that list is empty. This describes the public record, not his practice. Below is what is documented, what each item does and does not tell you, and how to use it when you contact the hospital.

Plastic surgery at Chiangmai Ram Chiangmai Ram describes him as a plastic surgery specialist. As a specialty, plastic surgery covers reconstructive work, such as repairing differences present from birth, injuries and wounds, as well as cosmetic surgery of the face and body; a specialty label on its own cannot tell you which of these make up his work. It also helps to know what the hospital itself publishes. Its Dermatology and Aesthetic Center lists non-surgical treatments (lasers, Ulthera, Sculptra, fillers and botulinum toxin), and we did not find an official Chiangmai Ram page that lists a cosmetic operation. Put the question to the hospital operation by operation.

Past listings as an aesthetic plastic surgeon Two older records place him in cosmetic practice: the ThSAPS directory of aesthetic plastic surgeons (entry last edited in 2009) and the 2015 Chiangmai Ram schedule, which put him under Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery. Neither names an operation, and both are years old. They are a reason to ask him about cosmetic surgery, not an answer about what he offers now.

Congenital conditions of the face and skull (research) His recent papers concern conditions present from birth: - Cleft lip and cleft palate, where the upper lip or the roof of the mouth does not fully join before birth. - Frontonasal dysplasia, a rare malformation of the middle of the face that affects the shape of the nose and the spacing of the eyes. - Encephalocele, in which the membranes covering the brain, and sometimes brain tissue, push out through an opening in the skull; in the frontoethmoidal form it appears near the root of the nose. - Proboscis lateralis, a rare condition in which part of the nose forms as a tube-like structure on one side of the face.

These papers show his academic interest and his university affiliation. They are not a statement that he treats these conditions for private or overseas patients at Chiangmai Ram. A request about a congenital condition, whether it concerns you or your child, should say so plainly. In general, care for cleft and craniofacial conditions is planned by a team of specialists and often happens in stages, so the hospital's answer may involve more than one department.

Nose surgery His 2024 paper presents structural rhinoplasty as an approach for frontonasal dysplasia, which is reconstructive nose surgery for a congenital condition. In general, cosmetic rhinoplasty alters the size, shape or proportions of the nose, and many operations also address breathing; our rhinoplasty guide explains the techniques and recovery in general terms, and whether it suits you can only be judged at an assessment. Whether Dr. Somboon offers cosmetic or revision nose surgery is not published, so ask.

If you already know which operation you want Read our general procedure guides first so that you can name the operation precisely in your request. If a published procedure list matters to you, the Chiang Mai city page and the Chiangmai Ram Hospital profile show other surgeons in the city, and our patient team can help you compare them.

With so little of Dr. Somboon's practice in the public record, a first consultation with him has two tasks: settling the basics his profile leaves open, and only then planning the operation. Many patients prefer to clear the first part in writing, through our patient team, before a date is fixed.

Questions about his experience with your operation - Is my operation part of your own surgical list, and roughly how many do you do in a year? - Where did you train as a plastic surgeon, and which specialist board certificate do you hold? - May I have your licence number, so that I can look it up on the Medical Council's register? - Are there consented photos of your own patients after this operation that I could see?

Questions about where you would be treated - Would the operation take place at Chiangmai Ram Hospital or at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, and where would my follow-up visits be? - If Maharaj Nakorn: can international private patients be seen there, and how do registration and payment work? - At a university hospital, would surgeons in training be part of my operation, and what would they do? - Who gives the anaesthetic, which type do you plan, and will I stay overnight? - If I need extra care or a longer stay, what happens and who covers the cost?

Questions about the plan and afterwards - What exactly does the written quote include: surgeon, anaesthesia, hospital stay, medicines, dressings or garments, and follow-up visits? - How many check-ups in Chiang Mai does the plan include, and at what point would you consider me ready to travel? - After I fly out of Chiang Mai, who answers if my healing looks wrong, and by what channel? - What is the policy, and the cost, if a revision is needed? - Can I have my operation note and discharge summary in English?

If you are asking about a congenital or reconstructive condition - Which other specialists would be involved, and at which hospital? - Is treatment planned in stages, and would any stage need me to return to Chiang Mai? - Which earlier records and scans do you need before you can advise?

His Chiangmai Ram profile names two languages, Thai and English. Patients more at ease in French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese or Korean can use the hospital's interpreter service (described below), which should be arranged at the time the appointment is made.

Dr. Somboon's two hospitals publish very different amounts of information for patients coming from abroad, so decide early which one you are asking about. Both are in Si Phum subdistrict of Mueang Chiang Mai district; our Chiang Mai guide covers the city itself.

Chiangmai Ram Hospital - Address: 8 Boonreungrit Road, Mueang Chiang Mai, 50200. Its contact page gives one general telephone number plus dedicated round-the-clock emergency numbers. - Background: officially opened on 2 August 1993, as a joint venture between doctors in Chiang Mai and Ramkhamhaeng Hospital in Bangkok. - Accreditation: the Joint Commission International directory shows Chiangmai Ram Hospital as accredited under its Hospital Program, with an effective date of 7 November 2009 and no expiry date given; look at the live listing before you travel. On the HA side (Healthcare Accreditation Institute, Thailand), Chiangmai Ram's latest accreditation ran until August 2021, and none is current. - Interpreters: Seven languages are covered by the professional medical interpreters of International Patients Services: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, French, German and English. The interpreter is booked together with the appointment, so mention the language in your request and we will pass it on. - Other services: the Health Check-up Center carries out medical examinations for visa applications, certified by embassies including Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the hospital runs a 24-hour patient transfer and ambulance service within Chiang Mai and from other provinces. - Which building: the Chiangmai Ram Health Center, where the hospital's dermatology and aesthetic clinic is based, stands on the same road; the hospital places it 50 metres before the main hospital. Dr. Somboon's published clinic is the Surgical Department, so check the location on your appointment confirmation. - Not published: how many beds, operating rooms or ICU beds the hospital has.

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital The hospital of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Medicine is at 110 Inthawarorot Road, Si Phum, Mueang Chiang Mai, 50200. Its Department of Surgery has the Plastic Surgery Unit in which Dr. Somboon is a special lecturer. We have not recorded international patient services or an accreditation for this hospital, and we found nothing that explains how an overseas private patient would arrange to see him there. If this hospital matters to you, ask us and we will put the question to it.

Planning your time in Chiang Mai In general, the length of stay depends on the type of operation and on how recovery goes, and the go-ahead for a flight home comes from Dr. Somboon's team once they have examined you after surgery. Our procedure guides give general timeframes; treat them as a starting point, bear in mind that only an examination can show whether an operation suits you, and confirm the plan with his team before you book travel you cannot change.

The fuller your first message, the fewer questions have to travel back and forth between you, our team and the hospital. Keep medical details to two channels, the booking form and WhatsApp messages with our patient team; photos are only needed once Dr. Somboon's team says which views it wants.

Details to include in any request - The operation or condition you want to talk about, and the result you would like - Chiangmai Ram or Maharaj Nakorn, a face-to-face or video meeting, and the weeks in which you could travel - Your age, any long-standing illness, the medicines and supplements you currently take, and known allergies - Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches or gum: say which, if any - Past surgery where you now want treatment, and a copy of that operation's notes if you still have them - Your preferred language and whether an interpreter is needed

Photos, if his team requests them - Face or nose: one photo facing the camera, one of each side in profile and one from each angle in between, in soft, even light, hair pulled away from the face, without make-up or filters; for the nose, one more from underneath - Eyes: close-ups looking straight ahead, one with eyes open and one with the lids softly shut - Body: front, side and back views while standing against a plain wall

For a congenital or reconstructive condition - Reports of any earlier operations, naming the hospital where they were done - CT, MRI or other imaging reports you hold - Letters from other specialists already involved, such as a speech therapist, orthodontist or neurosurgeon - If the patient is a child: contact details for a parent or guardian, and the child's medical records

Your questions for Dr. Somboon Write down the points you most want answered, especially those his public profile does not cover: whether he performs your operation, which specialist board he holds and his licence number. We forward the list with your request.