Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute (PPSI)

Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute (PPSI), in Thai สถาบันศัลยกรรมตกแต่งความงามภูเก็ต, is a plastic and cosmetic surgery centre in Phuket, Thailand, with its own team of five plastic surgeons. It is not a stand-alone hospital. The institute says it runs under the administration of Bangkok Hospital Siriroj, part of the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) group, and its published address is inside that hospital on Chalermprakiat Rama 9 Road in Mueang Phuket district. Its director is Dr. Sanguan Kunaporn, a plastic surgeon whose documented work is breast surgery and male-to-female gender-affirming surgery.

PPSI gives its founding date as 21 March 2016 and marked its tenth anniversary in 2026. It was created by merging two older Phuket units: the Phuket International Aesthetic Center (PIAC), based at the hospital now called Bangkok Hospital Siriroj (earlier Siriroj International Hospital, and before that Phuket International Hospital), and the Bangkok Phuket Institute of Cosmetic Surgery (BPICS) at Bangkok Hospital Phuket. That history explains two things patients sometimes notice. A few surgeon biographies list PPSI roles that begin before 2016, which appear to describe the predecessor centres. And older descriptions place PPSI at both Bangkok hospitals on the island, whereas the institute's current contact page lists only the Siriroj address.

The institute's services menu has four filters, Body, Breast, Face and Sex Change, and its pages cover breast surgery, facial surgery, body contouring, female genital aesthetic surgery and male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. The surgeon profiles add hair restoration and male breast reduction. On facilities, PPSI states that its operating rooms use positive-pressure systems and that patients receive one-to-one care from an anaesthesiologist. Its about page mentions that the host hospital has operating theatres and an intensive care unit, but it does not publish bed, theatre or ICU numbers, so we do not show any.

If you are considering surgery here, our patient team can pass a request to PPSI for you, either for a named surgeon or for a procedure you describe: request a consultation at PPSI. There is no charge for sending it, and a date only becomes a booking once the institute confirms it.

PPSI's services page sorts its treatments under Body, Breast, Face and Sex Change, the last being the institute's label for male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (the service page itself is titled 'Gender Change'). This is what the official pages document, grouped the way patients usually search:

• Breast surgery: breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction, breast implant removal and fat transfer to the breasts. A page titled 'Mommy Makeover Thailand' combines breast augmentation with abdominoplasty. Implant revision and male breast reduction (gynecomastia correction) appear in the surgeons' listed expertise, and the service list also names nipple reduction and areola reduction.
• Facial surgery: rhinoplasty (including septorhinoplasty), eyelid surgery, brow and forehead lift, facelift, chin augmentation, ear surgery (otoplasty), and lipofilling, which PPSI places under its Face menu.
• Body contouring: liposuction, VASER liposuction, abdominoplasty, belt lipectomy (lower body lift), arm lift (brachioplasty), thigh lift and buttock implants. High-definition VASER liposuction appears on Dr. Pongsatorn Sanguanchua's profile.
• Female genital aesthetic surgery: a labial reduction page, and a vaginal rejuvenation page that covers vaginal tightening, perineoplasty and clitoral hood reduction.
• Male-to-female gender-affirming surgery: vaginoplasty by penile skin inversion combined with an immediate full-thickness skin graft, with colon transposition for patients who need more depth.
• Hair restoration: FUT and FUE hair transplantation, documented through Dr. Piyapas Pichaichanarong's profile.

The institute presents two techniques as its own. It describes a breast lift with 'auto-augmentation', which uses the patient's own glandular tissue to shape the breast without an implant, as a technique of Dr. Sanguan Kunaporn. For male-to-female surgery it describes a 'GRS Phuket Technique': a neovaginoplasty using a free graft of small intestine (jejunum), which it attributes to Dr. Sanguan and Dr. Singto Siriwiroj. Neither technique has its own guide on our site; the nearest general guides are breast lift and vaginoplasty. If either interests you, ask at consultation who is a suitable candidate, how often the team performs it and what the alternatives are.

The service list also includes gastrectomy (stomach surgery), which falls outside the cosmetic and gender-affirming procedures we cover. For planning, PPSI offers video tele-consultations with a plastic surgeon and Crisalix 3D simulation, which produces an image of possible results from your photos. A simulation is useful for talking through goals; it is not a forecast of your own result.

PPSI's doctor directory lists five plastic surgeons. Each holds Thai board certification in plastic surgery, and each has an entry in the member directory of the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand (ThPRS). The institute also says that every one of its plastic surgeons belongs to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). When we searched the ISAPS directory on 27 September 2026, Dr. Sanguan, Dr. Piyapas, Dr. Veerawat and Dr. Pongsatorn were listed; Dr. Singto was not. The order below follows documented focus and is not a ranking.

[Dr. Sanguan Kunaporn](/doctor/sanguan-kunaporn/) (นพ.สงวน คุณาพร) is the institute's director. His profile names two areas: male-to-female gender-affirming surgery, and breast aesthetic surgery covering augmentation, lift, reduction and revision. His medical degree (1984) and his plastic surgery training are both from Chulalongkorn University, and he received the Thai Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery certificate in 1991. Former roles include vice president of ThPRS and, from 2010 to 2016, ISAPS National Secretary for Thailand. His Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile lists Thai as his language, so if you want to consult in English, ask whether a coordinator or interpreter will join the appointment. Request a consultation with Dr. Sanguan.

[Dr. Singto Siriwiroj](/doctor/singto-siriwiroj/) (นพ.สิงโต ศิริวิโรจน์) did all his training at Khon Kaen University: medical degree in 2013, board certification in surgery in 2018 and in plastic surgery in 2022. His listed expertise is upper and lower eyelid surgery; breast augmentation, lift and revision; gynecomastia correction; male-to-female gender-affirming surgery; female genital aesthetic surgery; skin cancer surgery; and maxillofacial injury and wound care. The institute credits its jejunal-graft vaginoplasty to him and Dr. Sanguan jointly. Separately, Bangkok Hospital Phuket lists him as a plastic surgeon in its Emergency & Trauma Center. English and Thai are the languages on his Bangkok Hospital Siriroj profile. Request a consultation with Dr. Singto.

[Dr. Piyapas Pichaichanarong](/doctor/piyapas-pichaichanarong/) (นพ.ปิยะพาสน์ พิชัยชาญณรงค์) has been a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at PPSI since 2016. He is the team's documented hair-restoration surgeon, using FUT and FUE, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (certified 2019 and shown as verified in that board's directory). His profile also covers facial cosmetic surgery (rhinoplasty for Asian and Caucasian patients, eyelid surgery, face and neck lifts), body contouring (tummy tuck, liposuction, fat transfer), breast augmentation, lift and reduction, and reconstructive surgery. He earned his medical degree from Chulalongkorn University in 1995, trained in plastic surgery at Mahidol University and was board-certified in 2002. Outside PPSI, his PPSI profile lists Mission Hospital, Phuket, and his ABHRS, ISAPS and ThPRS entries give Jungceylon Plastic Surgery Clinic in Kathu as his practice. English and Thai are the languages recorded for him. Request a consultation with Dr. Piyapas.

[Dr. Veerawat Tirananmongkol](/doctor/veerawat-tirananmongkol/) (นพ.วีรวัฒน์ ติรนันท์มงคล), known as Dr. V, lists breast surgery, facial surgery, body contouring and buttock enhancement. Across his hospital profiles he names breast augmentation with round and teardrop implants, breast lift, reduction and revision of earlier breast surgery, face and neck lifts, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, ear surgery, tummy tuck, buttock augmentation and labiaplasty. His PPSI profile dates his role there from 2015, a year before the stated founding date, and he has been vice chairman of the institute's risk management committee since 2018; he was also a founding surgeon of PIAC. His medical degree is from Chulalongkorn University (1994); his general surgery training followed at Prince of Songkla University and his plastic surgery training in Bangkok at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital; he was board-certified in plastic surgery in 2000, and later took courses in buttock implants (2005) and rhinoplasty (2006). He also practises in Bangkok, at Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital and Phyathai 2 Hospital, so confirm which city your consultation will be in. His Samitivej profile lists English and Thai. Request a consultation with Dr. Veerawat.

[Dr. Pongsatorn Sanguanchua](/doctor/pongsatorn-sanguanchua/) (นพ.พงศธร สงวนเชื้อ), known as Dr. Jib, lists facial rejuvenation, aesthetic breast surgery and body contouring: eyelid surgery, facelift, thread lifting and endoscopic facial surgery; breast augmentation with round or teardrop implants, breast lift and reduction; VASER and high-definition VASER liposuction, lipofilling, and fat transfer to the breasts and buttocks. He studied medicine at Prince of Songkla University, trained in plastic surgery at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, and was board-certified in 2000; he completed hands-on VASER training in Istanbul in 2015. He taught plastic surgery at Prince of Songkla University from 2000 to 2009, and was deputy director of the Bangkok-Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute (2011 to 2014) and of PPSI (2015 to 2017). Bangkok Hospital Siriroj lists English and Thai for him. Request a consultation with Dr. Pongsatorn.

Four of the five surgeons have a Medical Council of Thailand licence number published on an official profile or society listing; no number is published for Dr. Singto. 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 register is open to the public, and our patient team can give you the published number for the surgeon you choose so that you can look it up.

The procedure list on this page is built from two kinds of official PPSI source: the institute's service pages and the expertise its surgeons list on their profiles. Below, each area is matched to the surgeons who document it, alongside general points from our procedure guides. Treat those general points as prompts for questions; the plan a surgeon gives you after examining you is the one that applies.

Breast surgery. This is the only area on all five surgeons' profiles: breast augmentation and breast lift appear on every one, and breast reduction on every one except Dr. Singto's. For earlier surgery that needs attention, Dr. Sanguan and Dr. Veerawat document breast implant revision, Dr. Singto lists revision breast surgery, and the institute has a service page for breast implant removal. Dr. Pongsatorn's profile covers fat transfer breast augmentation, and Dr. Singto's covers gynecomastia surgery. As our guides explain, an implant or a fat transfer adds volume but does not raise a low-sitting nipple, which is why a surgeon may suggest pairing augmentation with a lift. Implants may need replacing or removing at some point, so ask how that would be arranged once you are back home, far from Phuket. Our augmentation guide suggests planning roughly 7 to 10 days in Thailand. PPSI's combined breast and tummy operation corresponds to our mommy makeover guide, which suggests two to three weeks in Thailand, because the abdominoplasty part sets the pace of recovery.

Male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. PPSI documents vaginoplasty by penile inversion with an immediate full-thickness skin graft, colon vaginoplasty (colon transposition) for patients who need more depth, and its jejunal-graft 'GRS Phuket Technique'. Dr. Sanguan and Dr. Singto are the surgeons documented for this work. Before surgery the institute asks for a health check-up within the three months before the operation, a letter of recommendation from a GP or psychologist for foreign patients, and for hormone treatment to be stopped beforehand; it does not publish how far ahead, so ask what applies to your regimen. Our vaginoplasty guide treats this as major surgery: commonly about a week as an inpatient, three to four weeks in Thailand in total, and a dilation routine that continues for the long term once you are home. Hair on the skin that will form the canal lining is a further planning point. Many surgeons want it permanently removed first, and electrolysis or laser can take several months, so raise it with PPSI early.

Facial surgery. For rhinoplasty, the documented surgeons are Dr. Piyapas, whose profile mentions rhinoplasty for both Asian and Caucasian patients, and Dr. Veerawat. Say clearly whether you want the nose built up or made smaller: adding height to a low bridge or more projection to the tip, usually called Asian rhinoplasty, is planned differently from a reduction, and septorhinoplasty adds work on the septum when breathing is part of the problem. Eyelid surgery, meaning blepharoplasty of the upper or lower lids, is on the profiles of Dr. Singto, Dr. Piyapas, Dr. Veerawat and Dr. Pongsatorn. Face and neck lifts are listed by Dr. Piyapas and Dr. Veerawat, and facelift also by Dr. Pongsatorn. Otoplasty is on Dr. Veerawat's profile. The institute's service pages add brow lift, chin augmentation and lipofilling (fat grafting to the face). For trip planning, our guides give typical stays of 7 to 10 days after rhinoplasty (the external splint usually comes off in that window), 5 to 7 days after eyelid surgery (when stitches are removed) and 10 to 14 days after a facelift.

Body contouring. Dr. Pongsatorn documents liposuction, VASER liposuction and HD liposuction; Dr. Piyapas lists liposuction and tummy tuck; Dr. Veerawat lists tummy tuck and buttock augmentation, and buttock implants has its own PPSI service page. The service pages also cover body lift (belt lipectomy), arm lift and thigh lift. An extended tummy tuck appears only in PPSI's tenth-anniversary package, a promotion that ran until 31 May 2026, so ask whether it is still offered. Our liposuction guide describes it as contouring rather than a way to lose weight, with a typical stay of 7 to 10 days. A tummy tuck usually means about 12 to 14 days in Thailand, and our tummy tuck guide flags clot risk as a specific issue for this operation, so ask your surgeon what prevention is planned around the long flight home.

Female genital aesthetic surgery. The institute's pages cover labiaplasty (its labial reduction page), vaginal tightening, perineoplasty and clitoral hood reduction. Dr. Singto lists female genital aesthetic surgery as an area, and Dr. Veerawat's Samitivej profile in Bangkok lists labiaplasty.

Hair restoration. Hair transplant by FUT and FUE hair transplant are documented through Dr. Piyapas, the team's hair-restoration surgeon.

Two cautions when you compare surgeons. Several of Dr. Veerawat's listed procedures, among them neck lift, tummy tuck and labiaplasty, come from his Bangkok hospital profiles rather than his PPSI page, so confirm he performs them in Phuket. Details such as hours of surgery or nights in hospital are best confirmed with the hospital directly. Do not plan around those figures; ask the institute to confirm operating time, hospital nights and time in Phuket for your procedure in writing.

PPSI is not listed as a separately accredited organisation; the accreditation belongs to its host hospital. When we searched Joint Commission International's (JCI) directory on 27 September 2026, Bangkok Hospital Siriroj appeared under the Hospital Program with the status Accredited (IHCO ID 60000192), an effective date of 15 December 2012 and no expiry date displayed. PPSI's website describes the institute as JCI accredited on the basis of that hospital listing.

Thailand's own accreditor, HA Thailand (the Healthcare Accreditation Institute), tells a different story for the same hospital. Its record for Siriroj Hospital (โรงพยาบาลสิริโรจน์) in Phuket contains only a Step 1 entry valid from 1 November 2006 to 31 October 2007, long expired, and we found no current HA accreditation. Bangkok Hospital Phuket, the former home of BPICS, has its own JCI listing and HA accreditation, but it is a separate hospital and is not the address PPSI currently publishes.

Keep in mind what a hospital accreditation measures: an outside survey of how the organisation runs, including infection control and patient-safety procedures, at a particular point in time. It does not grade individual surgeons and cannot guarantee how any operation turns out.

Other quality statements come from the institute itself and have not been independently audited by us:

• PPSI says its operating rooms use positive-pressure systems and that patients receive one-to-one care from anaesthesiologists.
• Its published surgical promise says that complications or dissatisfaction reported within 12 months are reviewed by the operating surgeon and, in complex cases, by a Surgical Review and Risk Management Committee of at least two senior plastic surgeons and a hospital risk-management doctor, which decides responsibility for any revision case by case. Revision is therefore not automatic, and the promise does not say which costs it covers; read the conditions before you pay.
• Society membership is checked per surgeon rather than per institute: ThPRS lists all five, and the ISAPS directory showed four, as the surgeons section explains.

What PPSI says it provides

• Coordinators and languages: a multilingual coordination team for international patients working in English, Chinese and French. The website is also published in Simplified Chinese, Russian and Thai, but a translated website does not by itself mean a coordinator speaks that language, so ask if you need Russian.
• Remote first steps: a video tele-consultation with a plastic surgeon, followed by a surgical recommendation and a price quote, plus Crisalix 3D simulation from your photos.
• Notice: consultation appointments usually need at least one week's notice.
• Transport: airport pick-up and hotel-to-hospital transfers in PPSI's own vehicles with its own drivers, free for overseas or agency patients above a stated procedure value and otherwise charged. The FAQ pages disagree on that threshold (two answers say 100,000 baht, another says 10,000 baht), so confirm it before relying on a free transfer.
• Hotels: staff will recommend hotels.
• Payment: cash, credit card, Australian bank deposit or overseas bank deposit, with payment in full before admission for surgery.
• Garments: compression garments and support bras are not supplied; the institute helps patients source them.
• Follow-up: checks at one, three, six and twelve months after the procedure, and an online consultation arranged through your coordinator if a complication arises after you return home.
• Surgical promise: the 12-month complication review described in the accreditation section.

How our patient team fits in

We run ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com as an independent booking and coordination service; PPSI does not own or run it. We forward your request to the institute, chase a reply, let you know which photos, records or test results the surgeon wants, and report back with what PPSI can offer, for example an online or in-person consultation and possible dates. PPSI sets its own prices, deposit and payment terms, and only the institute can confirm a booking. You pay us nothing for this.

Before you book flights, get two answers in writing: how the one-, three-, six- and twelve-month follow-ups will happen once you are home (a video call or a return visit), and whether you will leave with operation notes in English, plus an implant card after implant surgery, to hand to your own doctor.

PPSI's published address is Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute, Bangkok Hospital Siriroj, 44 Chalermprakiat Rama 9 Road, Phuket 83000, Thailand. The hospital is in Wichit subdistrict of Mueang Phuket, the province's capital district; Bangkok Hospital Siriroj's official page gives its coordinates as about 7.8980° N, 98.3681° E. The institute works inside the hospital building, and its about page refers to the hospital's operating theatres and intensive care unit.

The contact page gives the hospital number 076 361 888 (from abroad +66 76 361 888) with PPSI extensions 5497 and 5499, and the official website is phuketpsi.com. If you prefer one point of contact for dates, documents and questions, our patient team can handle the correspondence.

There are two Bangkok-branded hospitals in Phuket, which causes some confusion. Bangkok Hospital Phuket is a separate BDMS hospital and was home to BPICS, one of PPSI's predecessor units. Some profiles still link PPSI surgeons to it, and Dr. Singto is currently listed there in its Emergency & Trauma Center. If your written plan names a hospital, check that it is the one you expect.

For getting there, PPSI's drivers offer airport pick-up and runs between your hotel and the hospital, under the transfer conditions described above. We do not have a published travel time from Phuket airport to the hospital, so ask PPSI or our team when you plan your arrival. Our Phuket guide covers the island more broadly and lists other providers there. Choose accommodation for recovery rather than sightseeing. Typical stays in our procedure guides are 5 to 7 days for eyelid surgery; 7 to 10 days for breast augmentation, rhinoplasty or liposuction; 10 to 14 days for a facelift or breast lift; 12 to 14 days for a tummy tuck; and three to four weeks for vaginoplasty. Your surgeon makes the final call on when you can fly.

You can request an appointment at Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute through our patient team. Nothing is instant: PPSI confirms every date itself.

1. Choose a surgeon or a procedure. If you already know whom you want to see, use that surgeon's link: Dr. Sanguan Kunaporn, Dr. Singto Siriwiroj, Dr. Piyapas Pichaichanarong, Dr. Veerawat Tirananmongkol or Dr. Pongsatorn Sanguanchua. If not, send a request to PPSI naming the procedure, and we ask the institute which surgeon handles it.
2. Pick the format. Ask for a video consultation from home, an in-person consultation once you are in Phuket, or a treatment plan with possible surgery dates. For an in-person appointment, allow at least a week, which is the notice PPSI usually needs.
3. We contact PPSI. Our team relays your request, checks which surgeons are available, and lets you know what the institute asks you to provide: typically photos and a medical history, and for gender-affirming surgery the pre-operative documents it lists.
4. You decide, then PPSI confirms. We send you the options the institute offers. If you go ahead, the booking exists only once PPSI confirms it; the institute requires payment in full before surgery, and its terms apply.

The facts on this page come from PPSI's official website, the Bangkok Hospital Siriroj site, the surgeons' official hospital profiles, the JCI and HA Thailand databases and the ThPRS, ISAPS and ABHRS directories, and were last reviewed on 27 September 2026. Our provider research methodology describes how providers are verified and which kinds of claim we leave out.

A complete first message saves several rounds of emails before a PPSI surgeon can sketch a plan. Whatever is suggested from photos remains an outline until the surgeon has examined you in Phuket.

For every request: your age, height and weight; any health conditions; the medicines and supplements you take; allergies; smoking or nicotine use; earlier operations, particularly in the same area; the procedure you have in mind; a preferred surgeon, if you have one; and the dates you could travel.

Breast surgery: front, side and angled photos of the chest in plain light; your current bra size and the change you hope for. For implant revision or removal, include your implant card or the implant brand, size and type, the date and place of the earlier operation, any operation notes, and recent breast imaging. For gynecomastia, mention any recent weight change.

Facial surgery: for rhinoplasty, photos from the front, both sides and underneath the nose in even daylight, plus any injury, breathing problem or previous nose surgery. For eyelid surgery, close-ups with your eyes open and shut, and whether you have dry-eye symptoms, glaucoma, thyroid-related eye problems or reduced vision. For a face or neck lift, front and profile photos with your hair tied back.

Body contouring: photos of each area from the front, side and back, any recent weight change, and for a tummy tuck whether you may want more children, since surgeons usually advise waiting.

Female genital aesthetic surgery: describe your concerns and goals in writing first. Our team will tell you whether the surgeon wants photographs and how to send them privately.

Hair restoration: photos of the hairline, top, crown and sides of the scalp, how long your hair loss has been progressing, and any treatment you already use.

Male-to-female gender-affirming surgery: PPSI asks foreign patients for a letter of recommendation from a GP or psychologist, a health check-up done within the three months before surgery, and hormone treatment to be stopped before the operation. Send your hormone history and current regimen, the letter or the name of the professional who will write it, any electrolysis or laser treatment already done in the genital area, and whether you have a preference between the institute's techniques. Plan for three to four weeks in Thailand when you look at dates.

If you would like a Crisalix 3D simulation, PPSI creates it from your photos, so good, evenly lit images help. Treat the result as an example for discussion, not a promise.