Dr. Somsak Chuleewattanapong

Since 2004, according to the start year on Yanhee's English profile of him, Dr. Somsak Chuleewattanapong (Thai: นพ.สมศักดิ์ ชุลีวัฒนะพงศ์) has held a plastic surgeon's post at Yanhee International Hospital, which is privately owned and stands in Bang Phlat, Bangkok. We looked for other places where he sees patients, searching in both English and Thai, and found no second hospital or clinic profile, so Yanhee is the only practice we can point you to.

His formal medical and specialist training is Thai; the courses he took abroad were short ones. After a medical degree from Prince of Songkla University in 1993, he gained the Thai specialist diploma in general surgery in 1998 and the one in plastic surgery in 2001, and the alumni page of Phramongkutklao Hospital's plastic and reconstructive surgery programme lists him in its 11th cohort. His name is also on the public roll of members kept by ThPRS.

His Thai profile attaches him to two units inside Yanhee: its main plastic surgery department, and a separate centre set up to fix disappointing cosmetic results from other clinics.

Documented procedure areas. Eleven operations that have guides on this site are linked to Dr. Somsak by name in official Yanhee material:

• face: facelift, neck lift, eyelid surgery, rhinoplasty and jaw contouring (mandibular angle reduction);
• breast: breast augmentation and breast lift;
• body: liposuction, tummy tuck, thigh lift and buttock implants.

Facelift is documented in three separate parts of his record. The Thai profile names ดึงหน้า (facelift) among his treatment experience; the facelift page on Yanhee's English site includes him among the surgeons who carry out facelift and neck lift surgery; and the Ramathibodi plastic surgery joint meeting invited him to lecture on the deep plane SMAS facelift in both 2023 and 2025. His 2025 talk took in breast augmentation and breast lift as well.

His Yanhee profile gives his languages as Thai and English. When you are ready, send a consultation request for Dr. Somsak: we relay it to Yanhee and let you know as soon as the hospital agrees a time with him, normally inside one working day. Suitability for any of these operations depends on his own examination of you.

Yanhee publishes Dr. Somsak's qualifications twice, and the two versions are not identical. The English profile is brief and gives no year for either specialist board; the Thai profile supplies those years in the Thai Buddhist-era calendar and adds a longer list of courses. The timeline below merges both profiles and adds two outside sources: the alumni page of Phramongkutklao Hospital's plastic surgery training programme and an archived society directory entry.

Formal qualifications

• 1993: Doctor of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University. The English profile prints the university as “Songkhlanakarin University” and the degree as “General Medicine”; the Thai profile gives แพทยศาสตรบัณฑิต, มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์, B.E. 2536.
• 1998: specialist diploma in surgery. Listed in English as the Board of General Surgery of Thailand and in Thai as วุฒิบัตร สาขาศัลยศาสตร์, B.E. 2541.
• Plastic and reconstructive surgery training at Phramongkutklao Hospital. The alumni page of the programme run by the hospital's Department of Surgery places him in cohort 11 (รุ่นที่ 11) and, reading across its rows, gives Yanhee Hospital, Bangkok as his workplace. It does not say in which years he trained.
• 2001: specialist diploma in plastic surgery. The Board of Plastic Surgery of Thailand on the English profile; วุฒิบัตร สาขาศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง, B.E. 2544, on the Thai one. The same year appears as “Finished training in: 2001” on an English surgeon page from the old website of the aesthetic surgeons' society, ThSAPS, which survives only as an archived copy.

Courses, workshops and congresses listed by Yanhee

• 2004: the Asian Congress of Plastic Surgery, listed under international training.
• 2004, 2005 and 2006: the Plastic Surgery Conference of Thailand.
• 30 June to 10 July 2005: an Advance Rhinoplasty Course in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• 2006: an international workshop on jaw bone surgery, and a two-month observation visit in jaw bone surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
• 2007: facial surgery training in Taiwan.
• 2011: a live-surgery workshop in breast augmentation, at basic and advanced levels, in Singapore.
• 2023, 2024 and 2025: attendance at the ISAPS World Congress.
• 2026: attendance at ISAPS Face Master.

Reading the list. The two Thai diplomas are his formal specialist qualifications. The other entries are short courses, an observation visit and congress attendance that the hospital lists as training, not separate certifications. They do show where he has sought further teaching over the years: nose surgery in 2005, jaw bone surgery in 2006, facial surgery in 2007 and breast augmentation in 2011, which lines up with the treatment areas on his Thai profile.

We found no journal articles under his surname in PubMed, so we cannot point you to published research by him.

Before Yanhee. The “Medical Experience” list on Yanhee's English profile names two earlier hospitals without dates: Surat Thani Hospital, with no role given, and Pramongkutklao Hospital (Yanhee's spelling), where it describes him as a plastic surgeon. Because no years are printed for either, we can't say how long he worked at each.

Yanhee International Hospital, 2004 to the present. His current post is plastic surgeon at Yanhee, in the plastic surgery centre and the revision centre described above. Beyond his own profiles, several of Yanhee's English service pages include him in their “Available doctors” lists: facelift and neck lift, eyelid surgery, ultrasonic (Piezo) rhinoplasty, thigh lift, and buttock augmentation with implants. Two further pages do the same for breast reconstruction and for a butt lift described as gluteoplasty; we have no guides for those two operations yet, so they are not in his procedure list on this site. On Yanhee's English facial rejuvenation page he is credited as medical reviewer, but he is not among that page's available doctors, so we have not listed brow lift for him.

Invited lectures. His Thai profile records two talks as an invited speaker (วิทยากร) at the Ramathibodi plastic surgery joint meetings:

• 2023, 17th meeting: deep plane SMAS facelift;
• 2025, 19th meeting: deep plane SMAS facelift, and breast augmentation and breast lift.

Professional societies

• ThPRS: his name, with Yanhee Hospital's plastic surgery unit as workplace, sits in this society's public directory (ThPRS stands for the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand); the more recent Thai Plastic Surgery directory at plasticsurgery.or.th marks him as a verified doctor (re-checked 27 September 2026).
• ThSAPS (Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand): “Member since: 2002” is what his English entry on the society's former website said. That site has since gone offline and the entry now exists only in archived copies; both Yanhee profiles still state the membership.
• ASAPS and ISAPS: his Thai profile states membership of two overseas bodies, ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) and ASAPS (American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery). Neither is independently confirmed. The ISAPS Find-a-Surgeon directory did not list him when we went through its Thailand results on 27 September 2026.
• The Thai profile also names the Medical Council of Thailand among his memberships.

Each operation below is connected to Dr. Somsak by an official Yanhee source, either a service page that names him among its available doctors or the treatment-experience list on his Thai profile. For every area we give that evidence first and then general guidance drawn from our own procedure guides. The guidance describes what usually happens for most patients; it is not an account of his personal technique or results, and your suitability for any of them is a question only his examination can answer.

His Thai profile also prints hospital-supplied totals for how many operations of several kinds he has done. We could not verify those totals, so they are left out here. If experience with your particular operation matters to you, ask him at consultation how often he performs it.

Facelift and neck lift. Evidence: Yanhee's facelift page includes him among the surgeons who carry out facelift and neck lift surgery, and ดึงหน้า (facelift) is on his Thai treatment-experience list. General guidance: a facelift targets sagging in the lower face, such as jowls and loose skin along the jawline, by repositioning the deeper tissues and trimming surplus skin. Forehead lines, heavy eyelids and fine surface wrinkles are outside its reach and need other options, for example a brow lift, blepharoplasty or treatments aimed at the skin itself. Technique varies from surgeon to surgeon: options include tightening the SMAS layer, a deep plane lift, or a mini facelift with shorter scars, and a neck lift is often combined when neck skin and muscle bands are loose. Planning figures in our facelift guide: general anaesthesia or IV sedation, a night or two as an inpatient, then 10–14 days in Thailand overall. The complication it flags first is a haematoma, blood pooling under the skin, which is sometimes drained; the guide also warns that smoking makes skin healing problems more likely, so nicotine has to stop well before and after surgery. Dr. Somsak has lectured on the deep plane SMAS facelift, yet no Yanhee page says which technique he uses on his own patients, so ask which one he proposes for your face and why.

Eyelid surgery. Evidence: Yanhee's eyelid surgery page counts him among its available doctors. General guidance: blepharoplasty deals with surplus lid tissue (skin, muscle and fat), which is either removed or moved, treating hooding in the upper lid or bags in the lower lid, while double eyelid surgery forms an upper-lid crease. Our guide expects a day-case operation, usually with the eye area numbed and sedation given (a general anaesthetic is the alternative), stitch removal at roughly 5–7 days, and a 5–7 day stay in Thailand, since most people fly once the stitches are out. Mention any eye condition before surgery, including dry eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease or reduced vision, as each of these changes what is safe. A drooping lid margin (ptosis) calls for muscle repair rather than skin removal, and a descended brow may be better treated with a brow lift. Yanhee does not list Dr. Somsak for brow lift, so if your brow is part of the problem, ask how he would approach it.

Rhinoplasty and nasal bone reshaping. Evidence: Yanhee's ultrasonic rhinoplasty page names him among the surgeons who reshape nasal bone, including with the ultrasonic (Piezo) method; ปรับโครงสร้างจมูก (structural nose reshaping) appears on his Thai profile; and he completed an advanced rhinoplasty course in Boston in 2005. General guidance: rhinoplasty alters the bony and cartilage framework of the nose. Reduction work can narrow or straighten the bridge, take down a hump or refine the tip; augmentation adds height using a graft of your own cartilage (from the septum, the ear or a rib) or a silicone or ePTFE implant, and each choice has trade-offs. In our guide, a typical plan is a general anaesthetic, release to your hotel within a day, and a week to ten days in the country so the splint can be taken off and the nose looked at before you board a plane. Bruising and most of the visible puffiness usually fade over two to three weeks, but swelling at the tip is slower and can take a year or more to resolve. Ask whether ultrasonic bone work suits your nose and which graft or implant he would plan.

Jaw angle reduction. Evidence: ตัดมุมกราม, trimming of the lower-jaw angle, appears on his Thai treatment-experience list beside ตัดโหนกแก้ม (cheekbone reduction). We file jaw angle reduction under jaw contouring; cheekbone reduction has no page here yet. His 2006 jaw bone workshop and the two-month observation visit at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital belong to the same field. General guidance: our jaw contouring guide has not been published yet, and the time-in-Thailand figure it carries for now is 10–14 days. Until it appears, put the detailed questions to him directly: which part of the bone he would remove and how that is planned, where the incisions sit, which risks matter most for your anatomy, and how swelling and eating are managed in the first weeks.

Breast augmentation and breast lift. Evidence: his Thai profile lists เสริมหน้าอก (augmentation) and กระชับหน้าอก (tightening or lift); both were subjects of his invited talk at the 2025 Ramathibodi meeting; and a 2011 live-surgery workshop in Singapore on breast augmentation is among his listed training. Yanhee's breast reconstruction page names him too. General guidance: breast augmentation adds volume with an implant under each breast or with transferred fat, but it will not raise a breast whose nipple sits low. The decisions to go through with him are silicone or saline fill; a round or teardrop (anatomical) shape; smooth versus textured shells (our guide flags BIA-ALCL, a rare lymphoma linked mainly to some textured designs); the incision site, whether in the crease beneath the breast, along the lower areola or in the armpit; and implant depth, meaning subglandular (on top of the chest muscle) or dual plane (partly tucked under it). Plan on the possibility of a future operation to replace or remove the implants, because they do not last a lifetime. A breast lift, or mastopexy, raises the nipple to a higher level and cuts away stretched skin to reshape a sagging breast, with a scar pattern that follows how much lift is needed. Adding an implant to a lift turns it into a more complex procedure and makes a further operation more likely than with a lift or an implant by itself; Dr. Somsak can tell you whether he would do the two together or stage them. For time in Thailand, our breast guides plan a week to ten days for augmentation, and closer to two weeks (10–14 days) when a lift is involved.

Liposuction and tummy tuck. Evidence: Both ดูดไขมัน (liposuction) and the excision of abdominal fat, ตัดไขมันหน้าท้อง, are on his Thai profile, and Yanhee's own Thai-language page treats the second as the same operation as a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty). General guidance: liposuction suctions fat from chosen areas through small incisions. It is a contouring tool, not a weight-loss method, and neither slack skin nor cellulite is improved by it. Yanhee's liposuction page mentions tumescent and Vaser (ultrasound-assisted) methods, so ask which he would use in your case. A tummy tuck excises excess lower-abdominal skin together with the fat beneath it and, in most cases, draws together abdominal muscles that have drifted apart (diastasis recti), a common change after pregnancy. Versions run from the mini tummy tuck through the extended operation to the fleur-de-lis, and liposuction may be added. For time in Thailand, our guides plan 7–10 days around liposuction and 12–14 around a tummy tuck. Blood clots in the legs or lungs are a recognised risk of both, and our tummy tuck guide notes that this operation has one of the higher clot risks in cosmetic surgery, so find out what clot prevention he uses on the ward and recommends for the flight.

Thigh lift and buttock implants. Evidence: Yanhee's thigh lift page and its page on buttock augmentation with implants each include him among their available doctors. General guidance: full guides to the thigh lift and buttock implants are still in preparation. Our liposuction guide already points out that loose skin, as distinct from surplus fat, is a job for a skin-tightening operation such as a thigh lift rather than for liposuction. We use 10–14 days in Thailand as the planning figure for a thigh lift; there is no published typical stay for buttock implants yet, so ask Yanhee's team how long to allow. Yanhee's butt lift (gluteoplasty) page also names him. That page describes an operation that removes skin, which does not match any of our guides, so if you are weighing up buttock surgery, ask him which operation fits your goal.

Online first, then in person. Many international patients start with a video consultation before travelling, or with Yanhee's free online pre-assessment, which the hospital says an international coordinator reviews. Either can give you an outline plan, but a plan built from photos stays provisional until the surgeon has examined you in Bangkok. That caveat carries particular weight for the operations Dr. Somsak is listed for, where tissue and bone decide the approach: skin laxity in a facelift, skin thickness in a nose, bone shape at the jaw angle, and skin and breast tissue before augmentation or a lift.

Questions worth asking him, by area

• Facelift and neck lift: which technique he recommends for you (SMAS, deep plane or a smaller lift) and why; whether he would add a neck lift or eyelid surgery; how many nights you will spend in hospital; and how a haematoma would be recognised and treated.
• Eyelids: upper, lower or both; whether any drooping is ptosis rather than extra skin; and which lower-lid approach he would use.
• Nose: reduction or augmentation; open or closed; your own cartilage or an implant; whether ultrasonic nasal bone work applies to you; and how any later touch-up or revision would be handled.
• Jaw angle: what would be removed, how it is planned, where the incisions are, and what the main risks are for your face.
• Breast: implant type, shape, surface and size; incision and placement; whether you need a lift as well; one stage or two; and what implant records you will be given.
• Body: the safe upper limit for fat removal in a single sitting, given your weight and health; whether muscle repair is needed; drains and compression garments; and how blood clots are prevented, including on the flight home.

Questions for any operation at Yanhee

• Local, sedation or general anaesthetic: which do you plan for me, who administers it, and how long will I be an inpatient?
• What exactly does my package cover? According to Yanhee, most cosmetic operations are sold as packages that normally bundle the surgeon's fee, the operating theatre, the room, meals, nursing and medicines. Ask for an itemised written quote that also names anything left out.
• When will you clear me to fly, and what happens if I need to stay longer?
• Once I am back home, how does follow-up work, and whom should I call about a worrying symptom?

Combining operations. Patients often ask about combining procedures, such as a facelift with eyelid surgery or a tummy tuck with liposuction. In general, each addition lengthens the operation, the recovery and the stay in Thailand; ask him what he considers a safe combination for you rather than assuming everything can be done at once.

Every consultation or operation with Dr. Somsak would take place at Yanhee International Hospital, the one practice we found for him.

About the hospital. The street address is number 454, Soi 90 off Charansanitwong Road, Bangkok 10700 (Bang-O sub-district, Bang Phlat district). The hospital dates its beginnings to 1984, when its founders opened an outpatient practice called the Yanhee Polyclinic, and it now describes itself as a 400-bed hospital. Yanhee puts its plastic surgery team at 18 board-certified plastic surgeons and says every one of them belongs to ThPRS.

Accreditation. Yanhee holds JCI accreditation: Joint Commission International's own directory has it as an accredited Hospital Program organisation, and the certificate Yanhee posts online carries the dates 13 March 2026 to 12 March 2029. Its Thai HA status tells a different story, since the national HA record has nothing current and the last cycle lapsed in January 2019.

Help for overseas patients, as Yanhee describes it

• *Arriving:* foreign patients register at a dedicated counter on the first floor, where an interpreter is assigned to accompany them from one department to the next. Yanhee says interpreting and translation cost nothing extra, and it stations English-speaking coordinators around the building.
• *Getting about and staying:* for a fee, Yanhee will book cars to meet your flight and to shuttle you between hotel and hospital, and hotels that partner with it discount their rooms if you take them within a Yanhee package.
• *On the ward:* a liaison team for international patients comes round every day, and if you are admitted and treatment runs past your permitted stay, staff can help arrange a visa extension.
• *Paying:* cash in major currencies, a credit or debit card, or a bank transfer all work.
• *Leaving:* three papers travel home with you: the discharge summary plus two certificates, one medical and one confirming you are fit to fly.
• *Before you travel:* Yanhee offers an online pre-assessment at no cost, which one of its international coordinators looks over. The hospital also keeps an office in Yangon, Myanmar.

How this fits his operations. Several of the operations Dr. Somsak is listed for involve a longer stay and a return visit to the hospital for stitches and wound checks before you fly, so a hotel close to Yanhee and pre-arranged transfers are worth sorting out early. After a tummy tuck, liposuction or thigh lift, ask the liaison team how clot prevention continues once you leave the ward, and hold off booking your flight home until you have the fit-to-fly certificate.

Language. Dr. Somsak's profile lists Thai and English. Yanhee offers free interpreting in the languages its foreign patients commonly use but names none apart from English, so if you need another language, have our patient team check with Yanhee before you buy tickets.

Time in Thailand for his listed operations. Our guides' planning figures, grouped the way his practice is: on the face, eyelids need about 5–7 days, a nose 7–10, and a facelift, neck lift or jaw contouring 10–14; for the breast, allow 7–10 days after augmentation or 10–14 after a lift; for the body, liposuction takes 7–10, a thigh lift 10–14 and a tummy tuck 12–14. Buttock implants have no published figure on our site so far. Pairing operations in one trip generally stretches these figures. Dr. Somsak, not the date you picked in advance, decides when you are fit to fly, which is why a changeable return ticket makes sense.

Once you are home. After you fly home, follow-up with Yanhee happens over email, including progress photos passed to the doctor. File your discharge summary, the operation details and, if you had breast implants, the implant card with your medical records, and agree before surgery whom you should contact at the hospital if anything changes.

A first request only needs to tell us the treatment on your mind, your possible travel window, and whether the consultation should be by video or in person. Keep the rest to hand for when Yanhee's coordinators or Dr. Somsak ask for it, and keep anything medical, photos included, to our booking form or WhatsApp chat.

Useful for any of his operations

• a list of your medical conditions, allergies, prescribed medicines and supplements, flagging any that thin the blood;
• whether you smoke or use nicotine products;
• earlier operations, plus the reports for anything done on the area you want treated;
• a written list of your questions for him.

Facelift, neck lift and eyelids

• clear photos of your face and neck from the front and both sides in neutral light, only if asked;
• if your eyelids are the concern, a note of any eye condition (dry eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease, reduced vision);
• details of any earlier surgery on the face or eyelids.

Nose

• when asked, photos of the nose straight on, from each side and from underneath, taken in even light;
• notes on any past nose operation or injury, any difficulty breathing through the nose, and your allergies.

Jaw angle

• front and side photos, if requested;
• any X-rays or scans of your face or jaw that you already have, and details of any previous jaw surgery.

Breast

• details of previous breast surgery, and your implant card if you already have implants;
• any recent breast imaging reports;
• whether you plan a future pregnancy or breastfeeding, because breast surgery can affect breastfeeding.

Liposuction, tummy tuck, thigh lift and buttock surgery

• whether your weight has been stable, and any plans for pregnancy (surgeons usually advise finishing having children before a tummy tuck);
• any personal history of blood clots, which matters for planning these operations and the flight home;
• the areas you want treated.

Fixing an earlier operation. Dr. Somsak is one of the surgeons in Yanhee's unit for putting right cosmetic results from other clinics. If you would like him to review previous surgery, collect the name of the clinic, the date, the operation notes, details of any implant used, and any photos taken before that first operation.