Muscat Dermatology & Laser Center — Salalah
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 62.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #3 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
62.1/100
coverage 100% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Salalah branch of a dermatology and laser group with English and Arabic fronts. A dermatology specialist is named for this branch. The municipal licence guide used for legal-entity checks covers Muscat governorate only, so that axis is unverified here.
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 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. One physician named with a role and tied to the Salalah branch. [site] |
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). |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. No public health-facility register exists in Oman (register map: facility_registry = null). |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity is named; the register of this class is not accessible or does not cover this legal form (sole practitioner, private practice). The operating legal entity is on record under the brand name in the open municipal licence guide — «مركز مسقط للأمراض الجلدية والعلاج بالليزر», licence ب.م/2221/2023, activity code 862001 — but that guide covers Muscat governorate only and the licence it returns is for the Muscat (Al Ghubra) premises. No register reaching Dhofar could be queried: the national commercial register on the Oman Business Platform was re-probed on 2026-09-18 and still renders a server-verified BotDetect CAPTCHA in front of its first step. The Salalah premises itself is therefore not matched. [mcg] [site] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Certification marks (ISO 9001, a 2024 brand award) shown without registration numbers. [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. Lexicon scan of the pages loaded on 2026-09-18 (home, /contact — the branch page for this record — /about, /ar): unissued superlatives run through the whole site («premier», «world-class laser systems», «International standards of clinical excellence»); no guarantee or 100 %-class statement. The quoted line names this branch. [site-home] [site] A premier dermatology and laser center with clinics in Muscat and Salalah — where board-certified specialists, advanced technology, and treatments like Botox, dermal fillers, and bespoke skincare restore confidence to every skin. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, ar) on 2026-09-18: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. An aftercare and follow-up step is described in the treatment-process section; no consent, risks, revision or complaints page found. [site] |
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-contact] |
|---|---|
| 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. Marwa Khalaf [site] | Dermatology specialist, Salalah branch | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
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://muscatdermatology.com/contact |
|---|---|
| Phone | +968 2490 1500 |
| Address | New Salalah, Midan Al Ahtfalat Street, Salalah |
| City | Salalah |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://muscatdermatology.com/ | clinic's own site | named physician for the Salalah branch, treatment menu, advertising wording | 18 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://muscatdermatology.com/contact | clinic's own site | Salalah branch address and phone | 30 August 2026 |
| site-ar | https://muscatdermatology.com/ar | clinic's own site | Arabic front: physician, branch | 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 physician not among them | 30 August 2026 |
| moh-pharm | https://www.moh.gov.om/en/search-pharmacies/ | official register | the only public Ministry of Health facility directory; it lists pharmacies only and carries no practitioner or clinic records | 30 August 2026 |
| site-home | https://muscatdermatology.com/ | clinic's own site | home page of the shared clinic site: branches, advertising wording | 18 September 2026 |
| mcg | https://www.mm.gov.om/mcg.aspx | official register | POST https://www.mm.gov.om/MCGData1.aspx CustomerName=الجلدية then POST https://www.mm.gov.om/MCGData1Details.aspx id=2128260&phone=24527126 — licence ب.م/2221/2023, activity 862001, area الغبرة الشمالية (Muscat premises of the operating entity; the guide does not cover Dhofar) | 18 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://muscatdermatology.com/contact | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://muscatdermatology.com/contact | ar: https://muscatdermatology.com/ar/contact | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M8.attempt: "fetch failed (2026-09-17)" → "site reachable, mechanical check pending" (Clinic site re-loaded (v1.2 pass 1); M8 is scored only by the mechanical crawler.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 1): the site loads again and the lexicon scan completed.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 3 (Re-run against the municipal licence guide and the national register (v1.2 pass 1): entity named in an open register, no register accessible for this governorate.) |
| 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: 5 → null (Mechanical check did not complete (fetch failed: This operation was aborted); re-run scheduled.) |
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://muscatdermatology.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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