Al Shunnar Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 79.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #3 of 30 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
- Foreign-patient ready
Summary
Single-site plastic surgery clinic on Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai. Dr. Buthainah Al Shunnar is named as Consultant Plastic Surgeon, alongside three other named physicians. Offers breast surgery, liposuction and injectables among its listed procedures.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: DXB.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.7 out of 5 · reviews: 90 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 2 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Consultant Plastic Surgery matched by name at this exact facility; status current. [dha-prof] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name and facility in the DHA Sheryan register; licence-number cross-check not independently pulled. [dha-lic] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility name and area match the DHA Sheryan register. [dha-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The clinic trades under its brand name only: no legal entity with a legal form and no company registration number is published on the pages read (home, about-us, privacy-policy, contact-us and seven team pages). The Dubai trade-licence register (Invest in Dubai / DET) is not machine-accessible: re-probed 2026-09-20 with a desktop-browser user agent (search page served with a passive hCaptcha, API answers CSRF/INVALID_TOKEN) and with a short tool user agent (Akamai "Access Denied"). OpenCorporates returns HTTP 403 to both agents and its API requires a licence key; the DMCC business directory is a client-rendered Angular shell. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. A Ministry of Health advertising approval code is published sitewide in the footer, naming MOH as issuer; no facility licence number and no physician licence numbers were found on the pages read. [site] MOH : AJB2GO1L-030621 |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. One award claim names its issuer (Dubai Health Authority, 2018) and named credentials (Johns Hopkins training, American Board certification) are specific and checkable; no unattributed lexicon pattern found on pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Some facts appear on only one front. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, x-العربية) on 2026-09-17: physician "Dr. Buthainah Al Shunnar" on en only; physician "Dr. Kamal Sawan" on en only; physician "Dr. Claudia Alves Silva Machado" on en only; physician "Dr. Elmira Gesheva" on en only. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Consent, risk disclosure, aftercare, revision policy and complaint route not found on pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-01 |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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] |
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. Buthainah Al Shunnar [site] [dha-prof] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | 00250831 |
| Dr. Kamal Sawan [site] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Claudia Alves Silva Machado [site] | Specialist Plastic Surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Elmira Gesheva [site] | Dermatologist | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Foreign-patient register (Dubai Health Experience (DXH) — DHA-accredited medical-tourism 'DXH Group Members' facility list + Medical Facilitators register): verified yes [dxh]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae |
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| Phone | +971 4 395 3033 |
| Address | Villa 591, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai, UAE |
| City | Dubai |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae | clinic's own site | physician(s), address, phone, service menu, self-disclosed identifiers | 1 September 2026 |
| dha-fac | https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/wps/portal/home/medical-directo… | official register | facility registration (M4): POST https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/RestService/rest/retrieve/medicaldirectoryfacilitysearch?key=SHARED_KEY string="Al Shunnar" then GET facility-details?facilityId=0046929 — facility "Al Shunnar Plastic Surgery", area UM SUQAIM FIRST | 1 September 2026 |
| dha-prof | https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/RestService/rest/retrieve/medic… | official register | specialist board (M1): POST https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/RestService/rest/retrieve/medicaldirectorysearchdetails?key=SHARED_KEY body {"string":"Al Shunnar",...,"locale":"en"} — "Buthainah Al Shunnar", Physician-Consultant Plastic Surgery, facility "Al Shunnar Plastic Surgery", dhaUniqueId 00250831 | 1 September 2026 |
| dha-lic | https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/wps/portal/home/medical-directo… | official register | medical licence (M3): GET professional-details?dhaUniqueId=00250831 — licence record | 1 September 2026 |
| dxh | https://dxh.ae/en-US/DXH-Group-Members | official register | medical-tourism accreditation (registry.foreignPatient): GET dxh.ae/en-US/DXH-Group-Members?page=1..7 — "Al Shunnar Plastic Surgery" listed as a DXH Group Member facility | 1 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae/ | x-العربية: https://arabic.alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae/ | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M6: null → 3 (Re-run against the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run against the Dubai trade-licence register and the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M6: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://alshunnarplasticsurgery.ae/about-us/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 3 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 1 September 2026 | 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.