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Inside Nassim Plastic Surgery: Singapore's reconstructive-aesthetic standout
The Best in Bangkok Editorial Desk
July 2026
11 min read
Most plastic surgery clinics in Singapore sell you a version of the same promise — discretion, precision, a nicer version of your face. Nassim Plastic Surgery sells that too, obviously. But what actually separates Dr Janna Joethy from a lot of the Orchard Road circuit is that his practice didn’t start in aesthetics at all. It started in a public hospital burns unit.
That’s not a small distinction. A surgeon whose formative years were spent doing microsurgery and burn reconstruction at Singapore General Hospital approaches a rhinoplasty or a breast augmentation with a different baseline than one who trained straight into cosmetic practice. The technical vocabulary is different. So, often, is the judgment about when not to operate.
Nassim Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics
1 Orchard Boulevard, #11-02 Camden Medical Centre, Singapore 248649 · Mon–Fri 9am–6pm, Sat 10am–3pm · (65) 6517 9890
Led by Dr Janna Joethy — MBBS, MRCS, MMed, MSc (Surgery), FAMS (Plastic Surgery), 20+ years across public and private practice, SGH-trained in reconstructive and burns surgery, Brazil-trained in aesthetic contouring.
Who actually is Dr Janna Joethy
Dr Janna holds MBBS, MRCS, MMed, MSc (Surgery) and FAMS (Plastic Surgery) qualifications, and he’s registered to practise in both Singapore and London. He spent years at SGH working reconstructive and burns cases before a Singhealth scholarship sent him to Brazil, where he trained under Professor Viterbo, head of plastic surgery at São Paulo State University. He’s said this is where a lot of his eye for aesthetic proportion actually got sharpened — Brazilian aesthetic surgery has its own, fairly distinct, visual language, and it clearly left a mark on how he approaches contouring work now.
He returned to SGH and stayed until picking up a long-service award in 2016, by which point he’d published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on reconstructive surgery. He still travels for humanitarian reconstructive work — trips to Myanmar, Indonesia and Bangladesh have been mentioned in clinic materials, treating patients who’d otherwise have no access to this kind of surgery at all. Whatever you make of a clinic putting that in its marketing, the underlying resume — public hospital reconstructive training plus ongoing charity surgical work — isn’t something you can fake or buy.
The thing that actually convinced us
It wasn’t the credentials list, honestly. It was a quote buried in a CNA-sourced piece on the rise in under-30 plastic surgery patients in Singapore, republished by Malay Mail in August 2025. Dr Janna is quoted directly, warning against exactly the kind of demand his own clinic could just as easily be capitalising on: “You want to prevent a younger population from being addicted to plastic surgery.” That’s not a line you’d expect from someone purely chasing volume. In a separate Beauty Insider interview, he goes further, saying plainly that he’s turned down patients when their expectations were unrealistic — a two-way conversation, in his words, where he tells people what an outcome will actually look like alongside the risks and the downtime, rather than just what they want to hear.
Whether that instinct shows up equally in every single consult, we obviously can’t verify from outside. But it’s a documented, on-record position, not a marketing line dreamed up for a landing page — and in a field where the same CNA-linked report notes a rising number of botched procedures tied to under-qualified practitioners, that kind of stated caution counts for something.
Range, without the practice feeling scattered
The clinic covers a genuinely wide spread — breast augmentation and reconstruction, rhinoplasty, liposuction, body contouring including what the clinic markets as “mummy makeovers,” eyelid surgery, buccal fat removal, hair transplants, and non-surgical work like fillers and threads. That’s broad enough to look generic on paper. In practice, the breast reconstruction and burns background gives the aesthetic side a technical foundation that pure cosmetic-only clinics don’t always have, particularly for anything involving scarring or tissue that’s already been operated on before.
Worth noting: Nassim also partnered with local biotech firm RNAscence in 2025 to offer BioRNA Antiscar as a post-surgical recovery option — RNAscence’s own account of the partnership describes Dr Janna approaching them months before the product was even finalised, which, if accurate, suggests a surgeon who’s actively looking for better recovery outcomes rather than just adopting whatever’s trending. It’s a self-reported claim from the biotech partner’s blog, so we’re logging it as such rather than treating it as independently confirmed.
Where we’d push back. The clinic’s own website still carries a 2023 copyright notice in places and reads more functional than polished — not a dealbreaker, but a real gap next to competitors running slicker digital operations. We also could not find a genuine, active Reddit or Quora thread specifically discussing Nassim Plastic Surgery by name; general discussion of Singapore plastic surgery exists on those platforms, but nothing patient-specific and current enough to cite here. And there’s no independently verifiable aggregate review score publicly available for the clinic at the time of writing — its Instagram following sits at a modest 2,235, smaller than some competitors’ review volumes alone. We’re not filling that gap with an invented number.
Woffles Wu
Woffles Wu Aesthetic Surgery
If you ask a random Singaporean to name a plastic surgeon, this is the name that comes up first. Dr Woffles Wu has been operating since the 1980s, first at Singapore General Hospital and then in his own private practice at Camden Medical — the same building, as it happens, where Nassim Plastic Surgery now sits. He’s credited with developing techniques used internationally, and decades of press coverage have made him something close to a household name in the region.
The flip side of that fame is exactly what you’d expect. Wu’s profile is now as much about media appearances and art exhibitions as it is about clinic work, and a name that recognisable tends to carry a premium that doesn’t always track with the actual procedure. Booking a consult is not the fast, low-friction process it is at smaller practices — if you want him specifically rather than an associate, you plan around his calendar, not yours.
Dr W.C. Ong
W.C. Ong Plastic Reconstructive Surgery
One of a genuinely small number of female plastic surgeons practising in Singapore, Dr Ong runs a clinic that treats both adult cosmetic cases and paediatric reconstructive ones — a combination that’s rarer than it should be. For patients who specifically want a female surgeon for a breast or body procedure, this is one of the few established names on the list.
Where the practice falls short is visibility. There’s comparatively little recent press, and patient reviews online are thin on the ground compared to newer, more social-media-forward clinics. That’s not necessarily a reflection of quality — it might just mean an older-style practice that hasn’t leaned into digital marketing — but for someone trying to research from home before a first visit, there’s less to go on.
Dr Andrew Tay
The Plastic Surgery Practice
Dr Tay’s practice covers both cosmetic and reconstructive work along with minimally-invasive procedures, positioning itself as a fairly complete offering under one roof. It’s been around long enough to have built a settled patient base without the churn you sometimes see at newer aesthetic-only clinics.
The practice keeps a lower public profile than some of the bigger names on this list, which cuts both ways. Fewer marketing materials means less to independently verify online, and prospective patients researching before a consult will find themselves relying more on word of mouth than published case studies or press features.
Dr Andrew Cheah
Artisan Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery
Artisan has built a genuinely strong review base — a 5.0 average across 40 verified Trustindex reviews, with patients specifically praising rhinoplasty and lip-lift outcomes and calling out the scarring results as better than expected. For a newer name, that’s a solid signal.
It is, however, a newer name. The practice hasn’t had the multi-decade run that builds a deep bench of complex reconstructive cases — burns, cancer-related reconstruction, trauma — the way a surgeon coming out of a long public-hospital career has. Great for aesthetic refinement; a thinner track record if what you need is reconstructive complexity.
Polaris Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Multiple surgeons, incl. Dr Pek Chong Han
Polaris runs a multi-surgeon model with a strong aggregate review score — 4.8 across 73 Trustindex reviews at last check — and patients consistently mention attentive nursing staff and clear pre-op communication, particularly around ptosis and eyelid work.
Being a multi-surgeon clinic means less of the single-doctor continuity that a boutique practice offers — you may not see the same surgeon at every stage, from consult through to follow-up. A small number of reviews on the same platform mention inconsistency between practitioners, which is a fair trade-off to weigh against the convenience of a larger team.
Dr Matthew Yeo
Picasso Plastic Surgery
Based at Wheelock Place, Picasso has picked up consistently warm reviews, with patients describing Dr Yeo as thorough and genuinely engaged during consultations rather than rushing through them.
The clinic’s mall-based setting is more retail-adjacent than the medical-centre environment patients often expect for surgical procedures, and there’s less publicly available detail about the surgeon’s earlier training or public-hospital track record compared to names with a longer institutional paper trail.
So who's actually the pick
If pure fame is what you’re after, Woffles Wu still wins that category outright — there’s no getting around decades of press and a name half the country recognises. If it’s the tightest review numbers on a single review platform, Polaris and Artisan both post very respectable figures. None of that is nothing.
But for the specific combination this article is actually about — a surgeon whose reconstructive training runs as deep as their aesthetic finesse, who’s on record turning down procedures rather than upselling them, and who’s still doing charity reconstructive work on the side — Nassim Plastic Surgery is the clearer answer. It’s not the flashiest clinic on this list, and it could stand to modernise its own web presence. What it has instead is a paper trail: SGH, Brazil, 20-plus published papers, a direct quote in a national news piece cautioning against exactly the trend it could be feeding off. That’s harder to manufacture than a five-star average.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the best plastic surgeon in Singapore for reconstructive and aesthetic work combined?
Dr Janna Joethy of Nassim Plastic Surgery stands out here specifically because his background runs through both worlds — SGH-trained in microsurgery and burns reconstruction, then Brazil-trained in aesthetic contouring, before setting up private practice at Camden Medical Centre.
Is Nassim Plastic Surgery MOH-accredited?
Yes. Dr Janna is a MOH-accredited Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon holding MBBS, MRCS, MMed, MSc (Surgery) and FAMS (Plastic Surgery), and is also registered to practise in London.
What procedures does Nassim Plastic Surgery specialise in?
Breast augmentation and reconstruction, rhinoplasty, liposuction, body contouring, eyelid surgery, buccal fat removal, hair transplants, and non-surgical treatments including fillers and threads.
Where is the clinic located and what are the hours?
1 Orchard Boulevard, #11-02 Camden Medical Centre, Singapore 248649. Monday to Friday 9am–6pm, Saturday 10am–3pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.
How does Nassim Plastic Surgery compare to bigger names like Woffles Wu?
Woffles Wu has far greater public name recognition after decades in the media spotlight. Nassim Plastic Surgery offers a comparable reconstructive pedigree from public-hospital training, generally more accessible booking, and a documented, cautious approach to patient selection — without the celebrity-clinic premium.
Signals & sources
- Malay Mail / CNA, “Social media driving plastic surgery among Singaporeans under 30 at a cost,” Aug 2025 — read the piece
- Beauty Insider SG, interview with Dr Janna Joethy — read the interview
- RNAscence / BioRNA, partnership announcement with Nassim Plastic Surgery — read the post (self-reported by partner, not independently verified)
- Nassim Plastic Surgery, doctor bio page — read the bio
- No independently verifiable aggregate patient-rating source located for Nassim Plastic Surgery at time of writing; no active Reddit/Quora thread specific to the clinic located.
