Aster Royal Al Raffah Hospital Muscat — Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 45.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #17 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Plastic surgery and cosmetology departments inside a private multi-speciality hospital at Al Ghubra, Muscat. Six physicians are named across the two departments, three of them with surgical roles. No registration numbers are published and the Muscat municipal licence guide returned no entry matching the brand.
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 Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: ods, 18 September 2026 — No match on either secondary route: the international society directory holds only two Oman-located members (Dr. Sheikhan Al Hashmi, Dr. Gopal Malhotra) and the society roster names none of this record’s physicians. Absence carries no information about certification — both lists are small and skewed. The country’s own specialist register (hakeem.omsb.gov.om) is login-gated (closedAttempt on record), so M1 is not scored anywhere on this site (methodology v1.2 § 7). |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-08-30 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Physicians named with roles and qualifications on the department pages and on individual profile pages tied to this hospital. [site] [site-cosmetology] [site-doctor-shaqsi] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Not applicable: this country has no Medical licence register. No public practitioner register exists in Oman (register map: medical_licence = null). |
— | — | — | 2026-08-30 |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. No public health-facility register exists in Oman (register map: facility_registry = null). |
— | — | — | 2026-08-30 |
| 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. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, registration or physician numbers published on the department, hospital or physician pages. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Ranking claims without a named issuer appear in the page titles and descriptions of the department, hospital and physician pages. [site] [site-cosmetology] Best Plastic Surgery Hospital in Oman | Best Plastic Surgeon |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risks, aftercare, revision or complaints page found in the site navigation or footer. [site-hospital] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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-hospital] |
|---|---|
| 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] [site-cosmetology] |
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. Sultan Al Shaqsi [site-doctor-shaqsi] [site] | Visiting consultant — craniofacial and plastic surgeon (MBChB, MRCS, FRCS Canada, PhD) | not published |
| Dr. Fahed Al Hamlawi [site-doctor-hamlawi] [site] | Specialist, plastic surgery | not published |
| Dr. Rehab Abdel Azeem Gomaa [site-cosmetology] | Specialist, cosmetology and dermatology | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.aster.om/specialities/plastic-surgery/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +968 22496000 |
| Address | 133 Al Ghubrah Street, Muscat 133 |
| City | Muscat |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.aster.om/specialities/plastic-surgery/ | clinic's own site | department menu, named surgeons, page title wording | 30 August 2026 |
| site-cosmetology | https://www.aster.om/specialities/cosmetology/ | clinic's own site | cosmetology menu and named physicians | 30 August 2026 |
| site-hospital | https://www.aster.om/hospitals-clinics/aster-royal-al-raffah-hospit… | clinic's own site | branch name, address, phone | 30 August 2026 |
| site-doctor-shaqsi | https://www.aster.om/doctors/dr-sultan-al-shaqsi/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, qualifications | 30 August 2026 |
| site-doctor-hamlawi | https://www.aster.om/doctors/dr-fahed-hamlawi/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, speciality | 30 August 2026 |
| site-bariatric | https://www.aster.om/specialities/bariatric-surgery/ | clinic's own site | weight-loss surgery on the menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-ar | https://www.aster.om/arabic/ | clinic's own site | Arabic front: department and physician coverage | 30 August 2026 |
| mcg | https://www.mm.gov.om/mcg.aspx | official register | POST https://www.mm.gov.om/MCGData1.aspx CustomerName=الرفعة, CustomerName=الرفعه and CustomerName=أستر — no medical entry matching the brand | 30 August 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4571 | secondary | GET https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4571 — Oman member list (two entries); named physicians not among them | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1.attempt: "isaps (2026-08-30)" → "ods (2026-09-18)" (Secondary routes for the closed specialist register re-run (v1.2 pass 1): ISAPS Oman node and the Oman Dermatology Society roster.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1.nullReason: "retry" → "registry_closed" (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): specialist register closed for the whole site (closedAttempt on record): the axis leaves the coverage denominator) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: 3 → null (Mechanical check found a single language front (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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