The Nova Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #16 of 30 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
75.5/100
coverage 100% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Aesthetic clinic with several Dubai locations, including Al Wasl Road in Jumeirah and Palm Jumeirah. Dr. Timm Wolter is named as a consultant plastic surgeon. The published menu covers surgical and non-surgical aesthetics, injectable treatments, body contouring and wellness programmes.
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 by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. Dr. Timm Wolter, named on the clinic’s own team section, is on the DHA Sheryan register as Physician-Consultant Plastic Surgery (dhaUniqueId 00195150), entered there with his middle name; the registered specialty matches the surgery the clinic advertises and licence 00195150-010 is Active at this clinic’s branch facility to 21 December 2026. Every specialty block on the record was read; no limitation or disciplinary note appears on it. [dha-prof] Timm Philipp Wolter Germany Specialities Consultant Plastic Surgery Active |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The physician responsible for the aesthetic service is named on the clinic’s own pages with a role and tied to this address. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by licence number. Matched by licence number on the official per-professional detail page and confirmed Active: licence 00195150-010, Consultant Plastic Surgery, at Nova Plastic Surgery Clinic LLC (Branch), 21 December 2022 to 21 December 2026. Four further Active licences at other Dubai facilities are on the same record. [dha-prof] Consultant Plastic Surgery Active License NOVA PLASTIC SURGERY CLINIC LLC (BRANCH) License: 00195150-010 21 December 2022 - 21 December 2026 (3 years) Present |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility found in the DHA Sheryan facility register: name and area match the address the clinic publishes (facilityId 0001898, "Nova Plastic Surgery Clinic LLC"). [dha-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. 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 and about-us/our-team). The Dubai trade-licence register (Invest in Dubai / DET) is not machine-accessible — re-probed 2026-09-20 with a desktop-browser user agent (passive hCaptcha on the search page, CSRF/INVALID_TOKEN from the API) and with a short tool user agent (Akamai block). [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. A Ministry of Health approval code is published in the sitewide footer, naming MOH as the issuer; no facility licence number, no physician licence numbers and no company registration number were found on the pages read. [site] MOH: UX0D4LOP-010725 |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives without guarantees. Unattributed superlatives run through the clinic’s own copy on the home page — the page title, the story section and the team section. No absolute, no percentage claim and no outcome or safety guarantee was found. [site] Expertise, Precision, and Unmatched Care |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Some facts appear on only one front. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, ar) on 2026-09-20: physician "Dr. Timm Wolter" on en only; a phone number appears on one front only. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Pages loaded 2026-09-20: home and about-us/our-team (the contact-us path answers HTTP 404). Informed consent, a structured risk disclosure, aftercare instructions, a revision policy and a complaint route were not found on them. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
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. Timm Wolter [site] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Saima Anwar [site] | General Practitioner - Aesthetics | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
- Foreign-patient register (Dubai Health Experience (DXH) — DHA-accredited medical-tourism 'DXH Group Members' facility list + Medical Facilitators register): could not verify
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://thenovaclinic.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | +971 4 526 3900 |
| Address | Al Wasl Road, Al Manara, Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE (further Dubai branches on Palm Jumeirah and in Umm Suqeim) |
| City | Dubai |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://thenovaclinic.com | clinic's own site | physician(s), address, phone, service menu, self-disclosed identifiers | 20 September 2026 |
| dha-prof | https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/wps/portal/home/medical-directo… | official register | specialist registration and licence number with status (M1, M3) for the physician the clinic names as responsible for its aesthetic service. The Sheryan professional search resolved the surname Wolter to dhaUniqueId 00195150; this server-rendered detail page was then read with a plain GET and lists every licence the physician holds with its specialty, status, facility and validity range. | 20 September 2026 |
| dha-fac | https://services.dha.gov.ae/sheryan/wps/portal/home/medical-directo… | official register | facility registration (M4): the Sheryan facility search was run for the clinic name and returned "Nova Plastic Surgery Clinic LLC", facilityId 0001898; the server-rendered facility detail page was then read with a plain GET. | 20 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://thenovaclinic.com | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://thenovaclinic.com/ | ar: https://thenovaclinic.com/ar/ | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 3 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 2). |
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.