Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm

Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm (Thai: นพ. สุทิน ขอบุญส่งเสริม) is a Thai plastic and reconstructive surgeon who works in Bangkok. Official listings give him two current places of practice:

• [Preecha Aesthetic Institute (PAI)](/hospital/preecha-aesthetic-institute/), the clinic on Sukhumvit 55 in Watthana district (number 898/1, across the road from Thonglor Soi 23). According to his PAI profile, he has worked there as a plastic surgeon since 2011.
• [W Plastic Surgery Hospital](/hospital/w-plastic-surgery-hospital/), a specialist plastic surgery hospital in Lat Phrao district. On its team page he appears as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon; the Thai wording used there is ศัลยแพทย์ตกแต่งและเสริมสร้าง.

Nearly everything published about his clinical work comes from PAI. The clinic's service pages name him, usually with Dr. Burin Wangjiraniran plus Assoc. Prof. Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon, as a surgeon for its male-to-female genital operations, chest surgery for trans men, the bone and cartilage work of facial feminization, and a wide range of cosmetic operations on the nose, eyelids, face, breasts and body. His PAI profile lists four special interests. First comes male-to-female surgery by penile skin inversion; the others are facial contouring with facial feminization surgery (FFS), revision breast surgery, and transgender surgery more broadly. W Plastic Surgery Hospital's listing does not name individual procedures for him.

His medical degree is from Chulalongkorn University, and both of his residencies, first in general surgery and then in plastic and reconstructive surgery, were served at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. According to PAI, he holds board certification in both of those fields from the corresponding Thai boards. His name appears both in the member directory of ThPRS, the Thai plastic surgery society, and in the one kept by the RCST, the country's Royal College of Surgeons. English and Thai are the languages PAI gives for him.

His surname is spelled in more than one way online: W Plastic Surgery Hospital writes Khobunsongsern, and several PAI service pages write Khounsongserm, while his PAI profile, ThPRS and the Royal College of Surgeons use Khobunsongserm. They refer to the same surgeon.

If you are considering treatment with him, our patient team can pass on a consultation request for Dr. Sutin. We contact PAI or W Plastic Surgery Hospital for you and reply with what they can offer; nothing is booked until the clinic or hospital confirms.

The qualifications below come from Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm's profile on the PAI website. W Plastic Surgery Hospital's team page repeats the same education, boards and memberships.

• Doctor of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1985–1991)
• Residency in general surgery, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok (1994–1997)
• Residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok (1997–1999)
• 15th Annual Physicians Training Program for Operation Smile, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, United States (2002)
• Certified, Thai Board of General Surgery
• Certified, Thai Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Read in order, this is a two-stage surgical training. After qualifying in 1991 he spent three years as a physician in two hospitals in Uttraradit province, then returned to Bangkok for a general surgery residency, followed immediately by a separate plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at the same hospital, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, which he completed in 1999. The Operation Smile programme in the United States took place in 2002, while he was working as a plastic surgeon in Ubonratchathani; his profile lists it as a training programme rather than a fellowship. The profile does not give the years of his two board certifications.

Checking his licence. Doctors in Thailand can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand register 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. His ThPRS member entry, posted in November 2019, shows Thai medical licence number 16966. It is worth running your own search of the register, using that number or his Thai name สุทิน ขอบุญส่งเสริม, before you pay any deposit. Our provider research methodology page describes how we verify surgeons.

Dr. Sutin's PAI profile sets out a career that began in provincial Thai hospitals and moved to Bangkok over two decades:

• 1991–1993: physician, Pichai Hospital, Uttraradit
• 1993–1994: physician, Thongsaenkhan Hospital, Uttraradit
• 1999–2004: plastic surgeon, Sappasittiprasong Hospital, Ubonratchathani
• 2004–2006: plastic surgeon, Samutprakarn Hospital, Samutprakarn
• 2006–2011: plastic surgeon, Nopparutratchathani Hospital, Bangkok (the ThPRS listing calls it the plastic surgery unit of Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital)
• 2011–present: plastic surgeon, Preecha Aesthetic Institute (PAI), Bangkok
• Current, start year not published: plastic and reconstructive surgeon, W Plastic Surgery Hospital, Bangkok

The 2019 ThPRS entry also mentions a plastic surgery clinic on Nawamin Road in Bueng Kum, Bangkok. We found no current official page for that clinic, and PAI dates his Nopparat post as ending in 2011, so neither is listed on this profile as a place where you can see him today.

Professional societies. Two memberships can be seen on the organisations' own websites. ThPRS carries a member entry for him, posted in 2019, and in the RCST member search he is filed under the plastic surgery branch. Three further memberships appear only on his PAI profile: the transgender health association WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health), which his profile gives under its older name, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association; AsiaPATH, its Asian counterpart; and ThSAPS, which represents Thai aesthetic plastic surgeons.

Publications. Both his PAI and W Plastic Surgery Hospital profiles list two journal articles by title, and PubMed indexes each of them:

• Preecha's technique for male-to-female vaginoplasty, written up in 2015 for *J Plast Surg Hand Surg* (PubMed 25356769). PubMed records Preecha Aesthetic Institute as the article's affiliation.
• A 2001 anatomical paper, 'The anatomic basis of fasciocutaneous flap based on the posterior tibial vessels' (*J Med Assoc Thai*, PubMed 11529346), which studies a skin-and-fascia flap supplied by blood vessels of the lower leg, as used in reconstructive surgery. He is the second of its three authors.

Conference presentations. His PAI profile lists talks at international meetings. They include a presentation on colon vaginoplasty technique at the WPATH 23rd Biennial Symposium in Bangkok (February 2014); 'Modern Vaginoplasty in Male to Female Sex Reassignment Surgery' at the 32nd Hawaii Plastic Surgery Symposium (2016); and 'Facial Feminization Surgery' at the RACS 88th Annual Scientific Congress in Bangkok (May 2019). The profile also lists a symposium at Zurich University Hospital (April 2016), the annual conference of the German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons in Kassel (September 2016), a clinical forum on gender reassignment in Valencia (June 2018), a national conference in Hanoi (September 2019) and an international conference in Shanghai (June 2021).

One entry needs care. The profile records a live-surgery session on metoidioplasty at a university hospital in Linköping, Sweden, in November 2012. That records a single live-surgery session, not a statement that he offers metoidioplasty now, and PAI's own metoidioplasty page does not name him as the operating surgeon, so we do not list metoidioplasty among his procedures.

Each procedure below is linked to Dr. Sutin Khobunsongserm because a PAI service page, checked on 27 September 2026, lists him as one of the surgeons carrying it out. Most of those pages name the same three surgeons, so they tell you what he does at PAI, not how often he does it or how his approach differs from his colleagues'. Case numbers, complication rates and prices are not published for him. After the documented facts in each area we add general guidance from our own procedure guides; that guidance applies to any surgeon, not to him specifically, and your own suitability for any of these operations has to be assessed individually.

Male-to-female genital surgery (vaginoplasty and related operations)

This is the area his PAI profile puts first. PAI's male-to-female pages cover four approaches: the standard penile skin inversion, a version of it that adds a scrotal skin graft, the sigmoid colon method, and a secondary sigmoid colon operation used for revision. Dr. Sutin is named for:

• Penile inversion vaginoplasty. PAI's penile skin inversion page names him with Dr. Preecha and Dr. Burin, and male-to-female surgery by this technique is the first special interest on his profile.
• Colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty. On PAI's sigmoid colon page he is one of three surgeons credited with the clinic's current male-to-female operations, and his profile records a talk on colon vaginoplasty technique at the 2014 WPATH symposium.
• Revision vaginoplasty. PAI's secondary sigmoid colon operation is described as a correction for unsatisfactory depth or closure of the vagina after an earlier vaginoplasty, and he is one of its named surgeons.
• Vulvoplasty, which PAI calls zero-depth vaginoplasty.
• Orchiectomy. PAI names him for bilateral orchiectomy (removal of both testes) as an operation in its own right.

What our general vaginoplasty guide says applies to any surgeon: this is a major operation done under general anaesthesia, the hospital admission is commonly 5–7 nights, and most international patients spend three to four weeks in the country overall. Dilation starts in hospital and usually has to continue long term to keep depth and width. Vulvoplasty creates the external genitals without a canal, so lifelong dilation is avoided. The colon technique relies on a length of bowel, and our guide notes that it tends to be reserved for specific cases, for example revision surgery or when there is little skin to work with. A common reference point for surgeons is WPATH's SOC-8 (the eighth edition of its Standards of Care), yet each provider sets its own rules on hormone therapy, assessment letters and hair removal. PAI's own requirements were not part of the pages we checked, so ask before you plan dates. For orchiectomy as a stand-alone operation, our guide suggests planning 5–7 days in Thailand.

Facial feminization and facial contouring

PAI's facial pages name Dr. Sutin for:

• Forehead contouring and brow bone reduction, called brow bossing surgery at PAI
• Hairline lowering, which PAI calls lower hairline surgery or forehead reduction; according to PAI, a trans woman's hairline can be brought forward by as much as about 2–2.5 cm
• Chin reduction (chin shaving) and jaw contouring
• Tracheal shave, the reduction of the Adam's apple (chondrolaryngoplasty)
• Implant-based augmentation: cheek augmentation, chin augmentation and jaw enhancement. The jaw augmentation page is one of the few PAI pages that names only two surgeons, Dr. Burin and Dr. Sutin.

PAI's chin-shaving page presents facial contouring and facial feminization surgery as work all three of its named surgeons do, and FFS is one of the special interests on his own profile; he presented on FFS at the 2019 RACS congress in Bangkok. Speaking generally, FFS plans are individual: surgeons judge each face from photos and in person, and a CT scan is often requested when the forehead, jaw or chin bone is to be reshaped. For FFS, our guide recommends budgeting 10–14 days in Thailand, extended after extensive combined work; it also points out that very long combined operations add risk, which is why some surgeons split them into stages. Done without other facial surgery, a tracheal shave usually needs 5–7 days in Thailand, according to our guide.

Chest surgery for trans men

Top surgery: PAI's mastectomy page states that top surgery is performed by its three named surgeons, Dr. Sutin among them. The same page describes a keyhole or peri-areolar approach for smaller chests and a double-incision approach with nipple grafts. Our general top surgery guide links the choice of technique chiefly to how large the chest is and how elastic the skin is. It also notes that the WPATH SOC-8 guidance sets no hormone therapy requirement for chest masculinization, though individual surgeons may have their own rules. Most international patients allow 10–14 days in Thailand. That period covers drain removal and a nipple check before flying home.

Other trans-masculine operations are a different matter. PAI offers metoidioplasty and hysterectomy, but its pages do not name Dr. Sutin as the operating surgeon for either: on hysterectomy he is named for consultations only, and on the testicular implant and vaginectomy pages only as an adviser. PAI also states that it does not currently offer phalloplasty. None of these is listed for him here.

Nose, eyelids, brow and face

• Nose: rhinoplasty and Asian rhinoplasty, from PAI's nose augmentation page, which describes building up the nose with ear cartilage, a silicone implant or a combination, and says the operation is done under local anaesthesia; tip rhinoplasty, which PAI's page calls tipplasty; and alar base reduction to narrow the nostrils, which PAI says it carries out at the clinic under local anaesthesia.
• Eyelids: upper eyelid surgery and lower eyelid surgery, together known as blepharoplasty, and double eyelid surgery.
• Brow and face: brow lift, facelift, mini facelift, neck lift and buccal fat removal.
• Ears: otoplasty, which PAI calls ear pinning.

PAI pages also name him for dimple creation, which we do not yet cover with a procedure guide. As general guidance, our rhinoplasty guide separates two goals, reduction (removing a hump or refining the nose) and augmentation (raising a low bridge or tip), which use different materials and carry different risks; with implants, those risks include infection, shifting or extrusion that may mean the implant has to come out. Most people remain in Thailand for 7–10 days after nose surgery, until the splint has been removed and they have had a check-up. For eyelid surgery our guide suggests 5–7 days, since the stitches normally come out around then. Facelift and neck lift patients commonly allow 10–14 days; by then the stitches are usually out and any early complication has been checked for before the journey home.

Breast and male chest

• Breast augmentation, breast lift (PAI also describes a lift combined with implants) and breast reduction
• Breast implant revision. PAI's re-augmentation page says its named team specialises in revision breast surgery, which is also a special interest on his profile, and describes correcting problems such as capsular contracture.
• Gynecomastia surgery, male breast reduction

PAI pages also name him for inverted nipple correction. PAI has a separate page on breast implant removal, but it does not name a surgeon, so we cannot say whether he performs explant surgery. Our breast augmentation guide reminds readers that no breast implant is designed to last a lifetime, so a further operation at some stage should be expected as a possibility, and it advises keeping the implant card that lists the brand, size, type and lot numbers somewhere safe alongside your health records. For time in Thailand, our guides suggest 7–10 days after augmentation or gynecomastia surgery and 10–14 days after a lift or reduction of the breasts. In men with enlarged breast tissue, our guide recommends first checking for a medical cause, for example a medication or a hormonal condition.

Body contouring and labiaplasty

• Liposuction and VASER liposuction
• Tummy tuck , including the mini tummy tuck
• Arm lift, which PAI says is done under general anaesthesia
• Labiaplasty, which PAI calls labia repair or labia reduction

In general, liposuction reshapes rather than reduces weight, and our guide advises caution about offers to remove very large volumes or many areas in one session. Among cosmetic operations, abdominoplasty is one with a comparatively high risk of blood clots; getting up and walking soon after surgery, and settling how clots will be prevented during the long journey home, are part of safe planning, and around 12–14 days in Thailand is the planning figure in our guide. For labiaplasty the usual allowance is 5–7 days.

At PAI, operations under general anaesthesia are not performed in the clinic's own rooms but at affiliated hospitals; the international section below explains where.

PAI says that consultations, medical health checks and follow-up appointments all take place at its clinic on Sukhumvit 55, which has ten consultation rooms, operating rooms for procedures under local anaesthesia, and recovery rooms. If you are seen at W Plastic Surgery Hospital instead, establish early on which of the two facilities will be responsible for your operation, your aftercare and any later revision.

Because most PAI procedure pages list three surgeons, and because volumes and outcomes are not published for Dr. Sutin, the consultation is where you fill those gaps. Questions worth putting to him directly:

For any operation

• Are you the surgeon who operates from start to finish, and is it your name on my consent form?
• Where will it take place: in PAI's own operating rooms under local anaesthesia, at one of PAI's affiliated hospitals, or at W Plastic Surgery Hospital? Who gives the anaesthetic?
• How many of this operation do you perform in a year, and how often do your patients need a revision?
• Which follow-up visits are included, how do I reach your team after I fly home, and will I receive an English copy of my operation notes?

For vaginoplasty or orchiectomy

• Of the techniques PAI describes (penile skin inversion alone, the same with added scrotal skin, or sigmoid colon), which one fits my anatomy most closely in your view, and for what reason?
• What does PAI require before surgery in terms of hormone therapy, assessment letters and hair removal, and how far ahead should I start?
• How long will I stay in hospital, how often will I dilate at first, and who helps me if healing does not go as expected at home?
• If I choose orchiectomy now, how would that affect a vaginoplasty later?

For revision after surgery elsewhere

• What do you need from my first operation, and which approach would you consider for my depth or closure problem?
• How long should I wait after my last operation before you would operate again?

For facial feminization and facial contouring

• Do you need a CT scan, and should I bring one from home?
• Which of my procedures can be combined safely in one operation, and which would you stage?
• If I have forehead work and hairline lowering together, where will the scar sit?

For breast implant revision

• What is causing my problem, what would you do about the old implants and capsule, and which implants would you use?
• What happens if I need further surgery in a few years?

For nose surgery under local anaesthesia at PAI

• Which material do you recommend for my bridge or tip, and what are its long-term risks?
• What pain relief or sedation do you use, and when is the splint removed?

Write your questions down before you travel, and ask for the plan, the quote and what it includes in writing.

What PAI arranges for overseas patients. PAI's contact and service pages describe the following:

• Arrival. Once you have cleared customs at Suvarnabhumi Airport, a PAI driver meets you at door 4, the clinic's stated meeting point.
• Getting around. Depending on the package, PAI either includes or offers as an extra the transfers linking airport, hotel, hospital and clinic, plus short trips (up to 2 km from the clinic) for follow-up visits.
• Accommodation. PAI helps you reserve a room at hotels it partners with close to the clinic, at corporate prices.
• Language. PAI says it can provide an interpreter whatever your language. The languages named on its contact page are Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
• Visa paperwork. If your embassy or passport office needs one, PAI can issue a supporting letter.
• First contact. PAI asks overseas patients to start by email, and the attending physician looks through what they send. It states that video consultations are not offered.

Where operations under general anaesthesia happen. Nothing under general anaesthesia is done in PAI's own building. The clinic says such operations take place at two private Bangkok hospitals it is affiliated with and calls JCI-accredited; PAI's gallery photos are captioned with two hospital names, ViMUT Hospital and Phyathai 2 Hospital. JCI (Joint Commission International) showed both as accredited when we searched its directory on 27 September 2026. PAI itself did not come up in our JCI or HA Thailand searches; its in-house operating rooms are used for local-anaesthetic procedures, such as the nose and nostril operations described above. Ask which hospital your operation is planned for, because it affects where you should stay and how you travel to follow-up visits.

If you are seen at W Plastic Surgery Hospital. Our facility page describes it as a specialist plastic surgery hospital on Pradit Manutham Road, Lat Phrao, founded in 2018, offering face, eyelid, nose, breast and body surgery and gender confirmation surgery. Thai is the only language it lists, and we have found no published overseas-patient services or accreditation for it, so ask our patient team to confirm interpreting, transport and aftercare arrangements before you choose this location.

How long to plan in Thailand. Base your trip on the longest procedure in your plan. Our guides give these common stays: about three to four weeks for vaginoplasty; 10–14 days for facial feminization, top surgery, facelift, breast lift and breast reduction; 12–14 days for a tummy tuck; 7–10 days for rhinoplasty, breast augmentation and liposuction; and 5–7 days for eyelid surgery, labiaplasty, otoplasty, orchiectomy on its own or a tracheal shave on its own. Healing is individual, and only the treating team can clear you for the flight home, so keep your return date flexible.

Send the basics with your first request, and add procedure-specific material when the clinic asks for it. Share photos and medical records only through our request form or WhatsApp. Good photos are taken in soft daylight in front of a plain wall, unfiltered, and for facial procedures without make-up.

For every request

• Your age, country and the dates you could travel
• The procedure or concern, what you hope to change, and whether you want Dr. Sutin specifically
• Medical history: long-term conditions, previous operations (especially on the same area), allergies, all medicines and supplements you use, and your tobacco or e-cigarette use
• Height and weight for breast, body and genital surgery

Vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty or orchiectomy

• Your hormone history: which hormones, what dose if you know it, and since when
• Copies of any letters from a mental health or medical professional who has assessed or referred you
• Where you stand with genital hair removal: the method, and roughly how many sessions you have had, if you have started
• For revision: the name of your first surgeon or hospital, the date and technique, your operation notes, and a description of the problem (depth, narrowing or closure) and your dilation routine

Facial feminization, jaw and chin work, tracheal shave

• Five face views (straight on, left and right profile, and left and right three-quarter), taken with your hair tied back so the forehead and hairline show
• A side view of the neck with the chin level, if you are asking about a tracheal shave
• Any CT scans or facial imaging you already have, and details of earlier facial surgery or implants

Top surgery

• Front and side chest photos, standing with arms at your sides
• Any assessment letter you already have and details of hormone therapy, if you take it

Nose, eyelids and face

• Rhinoplasty: front, side and base (from below) views, plus any previous nose surgery, injury or breathing problems
• Eyelid surgery: close-ups with eyes open, closed and looking up, and a note of any eye problem (dry eye, glaucoma, thyroid-related eye disease, poor eyesight)
• Facelift, neck lift or brow lift: front, profile and three-quarter views with a relaxed expression

Breast and male chest

• Front and side photos of the chest
• For implant revision: your implant card (brand, size, type and lot numbers), the date and place of the first operation, what has changed since, and any recent scans
• For gynecomastia: any tests or medical advice you have already had about the cause, and the medicines or supplements you take

Body contouring and labiaplasty

• Photos of the areas you want treated, from the front, sides and back
• Whether your weight has been stable, and for a tummy tuck whether you plan further pregnancies
• For labiaplasty, a short description of the symptoms or concerns; photos only if the clinic asks for them

If you are unsure what to include, send the basics; we will find out which extra items PAI or W Plastic Surgery Hospital wants and let you know.