Bangkok · Non-surgical
Melasma is treated in Bangkok by hospitals and clinics with lasers, light and tranexamic acid injections, usually as a course of sessions.
Prices in Bangkok are per session or by the course of three to ten sessions. Ask for the total for the course the doctor advises.
Starting price · Bangkok · per session
฿2,700
Pricing is indicative and never a quote.
Melasma is a darkening of the skin from pigment lying deep in the skin. One Bangkok hospital describes it as large dark or brown patches on the forehead, cheeks, nose and above the lip, often linked to hormones, such as pregnancy or the contraceptive pill.
Bangkok hospitals and clinics treat it with lasers, light, and injections of tranexamic acid, usually as a course of sessions.
Read the guide: Melasma treatment Bangkok: melasma treatment price for laser and injections
The same procedure name covers different operations. These are the approaches a clinic will offer, and what separates them.
Laser toning sold by two hospitals for melasma, freckles and dark spots, by the session or as a course of five.
Picosecond lasers such as PicoWay and Discovery Pico, sold by one hospital and one clinic, often in packages that also cover acne scars and freckles.
One hospital sells a melasma injection of 5 ml of tranexamic acid (Transamin).
One clinic sells a light treatment (VIPL) and a Z-Smooth laser for melasma, freckles and dark marks.
These come up at consultation. Knowing them beforehand makes the conversation shorter and the plan clearer.
Ask the doctor which suits your melasma, and whether they advise combining them.
One clinic says melasma usually needs about three to five sessions or more. Ask for the course price and how far apart the sessions are.
One hospital says its Q-switched laser is not suitable with inflamed acne. Another asks you to tell the doctor about any medicine that makes the skin sensitive to light.
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Clinics vary, and your clinician’s plan overrides anything on this page. The shape is consistent.
Melasma is treated over a course of sessions, so one trip covers only part of it. One hospital advises avoiding the sun for one to two weeks before.
A doctor examines the skin and decides the method and the number of sessions.
One clinic says it usually applies numbing cream before pico laser.
Slight redness, which one clinic says improves over one to two days.
One hospital advises sunscreen and no strong sun for one to two weeks, no scrubs or acids until the doctor allows, and no sauna or hard exercise for two to three days.
Keep using sunscreen. Ask the doctor what to do to keep the melasma from coming back.
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.
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No. It is a starting price for one session. The total depends on the course the doctor advises.
One clinic says melasma usually needs about three to five sessions or more.
Little. One clinic says slight redness improves over one to two days.
One hospital's packages are for Thai citizens and foreigners living in Thailand only. Another hospital's laser price is open to foreign patients.
One hospital says its Q-switched laser is not suitable with inflamed acne.