Bangkok · Weight loss
Gastric balloon is performed in Bangkok by hospitals with bariatric departments. It is major surgery with permanent effects, and every reputable programme includes assessment and long-term follow-up rather than the operation alone.
The price differences between clinics usually reflect what is wrapped around the surgery — pre-operative assessment, dietetic support, and follow-up over the following year — more than the operation itself.
Starting price · Bangkok
฿159,000
What a starting price means. It is the published figure for the simplest configuration of this procedure — the standard implant, technique or materials. Yours may cost more depending on what you need. Thai hospitals quote a fixed package that states the hospital stay it includes.
Matched on procedure, budget, language and availability. They come back to you with real quotes. You decide who — if anyone — you talk to.
A gastric balloon is a soft silicone balloon placed in the stomach and filled, reducing the space available for food. It is temporary and removed after a set period.
It is not surgery. Placement is endoscopic and usually done under sedation as a day case, which makes it much easier to fit into a trip than bariatric surgery.
The same procedure name covers different operations. These are the approaches a clinic will offer, and what separates them.
These come up at consultation. Knowing them beforehand makes the conversation shorter and the plan clearer.
Ask when, where and at what cost. If it is removed at home, arrange that before placement.
It is temporary. The programme around it — diet and support — is what determines whether the result holds.
Nausea in the first days is common. Plan the trip so you are not travelling through it.
About 5 days
Clinics vary, and your clinician’s plan overrides anything on this page. The shape is consistent.
Where the treatment happens.
Where you recover.
Where you spend the rest of the trip.
Video slot. Once a video is registered here it is checked automatically and we are alerted if it disappears.
In writing, in English, before money moves.
A clinic name is not a clinician. Ask for the individual, their registration, and how often they do this procedure.
Facility fees, anaesthesia, materials, medication, follow-up appointments and take-home items are often quoted separately.
Including if the clinic reschedules, or if the in-person assessment changes the plan.
Ask for the policy in writing: who pays, within what window, and whether it covers a return trip.
A name, a channel, and an expected response time. Aftercare that ends at the airport is not aftercare.
Everything worth settling before you book, before you fly, while you are in Bangkok, and once you are home — including how this goes wrong and how to avoid it. Tick it here, or take it with you.
All of this is settled on paper, before money moves.
Avoidable problems, mostly caused by booking in the wrong order.
On the ground in Bangkok.
General patterns in medical travel. Read once, and check yourself against each.
The part that decides the result.
Surgical and aesthetic clinics in Bangkok, listed because they work in this field. Open a profile for the address, the services listed and the contact details.
No. It is a starting price. Assessment may change what is recommended, or whether surgery is recommended at all.
Sometimes, and for varying periods. Ask exactly what is covered and for how long.
Around 5 days, covering assessment, surgery, several nights in hospital and clearance to fly.
You need ongoing medical and dietetic follow-up. Arrange it before you travel.
That is decided by assessment, not by a form. A programme that confirms you before examining you is telling you something.
Matched on procedure, budget, language and availability. They come back to you with real quotes. You decide who — if anyone — you talk to.