SYM Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 29 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Non-surgical aesthetic-medicine clinic on the Chiang Mai-Lampang Super Highway offering thread lifting and injectable treatments. The founder is named with her full legal name and role. She is found in the Thai Medical Council register as a licensed physician; the register does not show a recognised Thai specialty-board certification.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found in the register; the register does not disclose specialty. TMC checkmd: พญ. อัญธิกา ทิพรักษ์ AUNTIKA THIPPHARAK, M.D. (licensed since 2011): "สถานะความรู้ความชำนาญเฉพาะทางที่แพทยสภารับรอง ยังไม่มี (None)" — no TMC-recognised specialty board (e.g. dermatology) on file; the site lists course/workshop certificates rather than a board certification. [tmc-auntika] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Named with full legal name, nickname and role (founder/medical director), tied to this clinic. [site-about] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name. Matched by name in TMC checkmd; no licence number published by the clinic to check by number. [tmc-auntika] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-29 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. Brand name only ('SYM Clinic' / 'SYM Aesthetic Medical Clinic'); no juristic-person name or registration number published. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. Publishes an advertising permit number ('Advertising Permit No. KSP.CM.085/2568') without stating the issuing office; no physician-licence or facility number published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives. One soft superlative in the founder's own bio, describing facial-structure analysis “for the best aesthetic results”; no outcome guarantee or absolute-percentage safety statement in the clinic's own copy. A phrase combining “100%” with “safe” appears only inside a quoted customer testimonial, not the clinic's own marketing text, and reviews are out of scope for this axis. [site-about] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Only the English-language front (/en/) was surveyed; no separate Thai front comparison performed. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No informed-consent, risk/contraindication, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route page found on the surveyed pages. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site-about] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-about] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Auntika Thippharak [site-about] [tmc-auntika] | Founder and medical director | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (Thai Medical Council — suspended / revoked licence status (surfaced in the checkmd lookup since 2026-03-03)): no entry found [tmc-auntika]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://symclinic.com/en/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +66 65 352 4296 |
| Address | 8/38 Moo 3, Super Highway Road (Chiang Mai-Lampang), Chang Phueak, Mueang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand |
| City | Chiang Mai |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://symclinic.com/en/ | clinic's own site | menu, address, phone, advertising permit number | 2026-08-29 |
| site-about | https://symclinic.com/en/about-us/ | clinic's own site | physician full legal name and role | 2026-08-29 |
| tmc-auntika | https://checkmd.tmc.or.th/v2 | official register | physician verification, medical licence, disciplinary status — POST https://checkmd.tmc.or.th/v3/search nm_en=AUNTIKA lp_en=THIPPHARAK checkCode=2 (browser UA) | 2026-08-29 |
| hansbiomed | https://www.hansbiomedthailand.com/Dr.%20Auntika%20Thippharak%20Dr.… | secondary | physician identification (independent listing) | 2026-08-29 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-29 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.