American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital (AACSH)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 80/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #2 of 30 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
- Foreign-patient ready
Summary
Multi-specialty cosmetic surgery hospital in Dubai Healthcare City with a large listed physician roster. Dr. Abizer Saifuddin Kapadia is named as Consultant Plastic Surgeon among several named plastic surgeons. Runs plastic surgery, hair-loss and bariatric/weight-loss departments alongside dermatology and other specialties.
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 | 4.5 out of 5 · reviews: 791 |
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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, doctors, privacy-policy, terms-and-conditions, cookie-policy and contact-us). 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 Logos without numbers. Homepage shows a JCI accreditation logo; no DHA licence number or trade-licence number with issuer found on pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No lexicon hits confirmed from directly-read pages; the Terms and Conditions page explicitly disclaims outcome guarantees. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (en, ar, x-العربية) on 2026-09-17: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Terms page references pre-procedure consultation/consent and post-procedure instructions; structured risk disclosure, revision policy and complaint route not found. [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. Abizer Saifuddin Kapadia [site] [dha-prof] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | 00211021 |
| Dr. Naser Mozafari [site] | Specialist Plastic Surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Khaled Amer [site] | Cosmetic & Plastic Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified yes →
- Injectables: could not verify
- Medical weight loss: verified yes →
- 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://www.aacsh.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | +971 4 423 7600 |
| Address | Building 73, Umm Hurair 2, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE |
| City | Dubai |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.aacsh.com | 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="American Academy of Cosmetic" then GET facility-details?facilityId=3613596 — facility "American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital (AACSH) FZ-LLC", area Dubai Healthcare City | 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":"COSMESURGE-AACSH",...,"locale":"en"} — "Abizer Saifuddin Kapadia", Physician-Consultant Plastic Surgery, facility "American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital (AACSH) FZ-LLC", dhaUniqueId 00211021 | 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=00211021 — 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 — "American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital (AACSH)" listed as a DXH Group Member facility | 1 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.aacsh.com | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.aacsh.com/ | ar: https://www.aacsh.com/ar/ | x-العربية: https://www.aacsh.com/ar/ | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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)) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 1 September 2026 | Initial collection. |
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