HD Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 65/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #30 of 32 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Dental clinic in Albufeira with an aesthetic-medicine service. The physician responsible for that service is named on both language fronts with his Ordem dos Médicos number, which matches the board register in general surgery. The establishment is recorded in the ERS facility register under the operating company's own name, and that company is matched in VIES. The clinic's English page describes the service in promotional terms; the sentence is quoted on the profile.
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 is adjacent to what is advertised — a closed list: plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, maxillofacial surgery, facial ENT, oculoplastic ophthalmology, general surgery, aesthetic or cosmetic medicine where it is a recognised specialty. Board register: licence 51175, specialty Cirurgia Geral — adjacent to, not the same as, the advertised aesthetic-medicine service; the aesthetic-medicine postgraduate stated on the site is not a board specialty. [om-melo] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Physician named with role and licence number on the clinic's team page for this address. [site-team-en] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by the licence number the clinic itself publishes. The licence number published by the clinic matched by number in the Ordem dos Médicos register. [om-melo] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. SRER registration 112452 found at the same street address and landline; the register carries the operating company's name rather than the trading name used on the site. [ers] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. The physician's licence number is published with the issuer named; facility and company numbers are not. [site-team-en] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty An unconditional absolute about the patient's future safety or the treatment outcome — zero risk, no complications, “100% safe”, “result guaranteed” — in the clinic's own rendered text (bright line; cap 65). The English page uses the word guarantee without naming its object and adds a comfort statement; no absolute safety statement and no named outcome guarantee in the clinic’s own text. The sentence is kept as evidence of the wording. [v1.3 lexicon re-read 2026-09-22: absolute_future → 2; M7-B (without pain)] [site-en] We make this dream possible with maximum confidence and guarantee, without pain and easier than you expect. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 4 language fronts (pt, en, nl, fr) 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 One. Complaint route published (national complaints book); no consent, risk, aftercare or revision document found. [site-en] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/en (en, 2026-09-22) states: “We make this dream possible with maximum confidence and guarantee, without pain and easier than you expect.”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site-en]
Ceilings are applied only from verified-false findings with the exact quote or register entry cited. The clinic has a right of reply; a statement with a source changes the data, a statement without one is shown next to it.
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-en] [ers] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-en] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-am] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-team-en] [site-team-pt] |
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. João Melo [site-team-en] [site-team-pt] [om-melo] | General surgeon and aesthetic medicine | 51175 |
Legal entity: CLÍNICA MÉDICA DENTÁRIA DRA. DINA MARTINS, LDA · 505790793 [ers] [vies]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-en]
- 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
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +351 289 512 636 |
| Address | Rua Miguel Torga, Lote 16-C, Loja J, Areias de São João, 8200-284 Albufeira |
| City | Albufeira |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-en | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/en | clinic's own site | clinic identity, service list, advertising wording, complaints-book link | 30 August 2026 |
| site-team-en | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/en/our-team | clinic's own site | named physician, role and Ordem dos Médicos number | 30 August 2026 |
| site-team-pt | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/pt/our-team | clinic's own site | Portuguese front: same physician, role and number | 30 August 2026 |
| site-am | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/pt/treatment-detail/medicina-esteti… | clinic's own site | aesthetic-medicine menu and address | 30 August 2026 |
| ers | https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=455295 | official register | GET https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=455295 — SRER establishment CLÍNICA MÉDICA DENTÁRIA DRA. DINA MARTINS, registration 112452, state Registado, address Rua Miguel Torga 16 C Lj J, 8200-284 Albufeira, telephone 289512636, entity NIF/NIPC 505790793 | 30 August 2026 |
| om-melo | https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=51175 | official register | GET https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=51175 — João Pedro Melo Neves, district Faro, specialty Cirurgia Geral, inMemoriam false | 30 August 2026 |
| vies | https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/50579… | official register | GET https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/505790793 — isValid true, name CLÍNICA MÉDICA DENTÁRIA DRA. DINA MARTINS, LDA, seat R Miguel Torga Lote 16 loja J, Albufeira | 30 August 2026 |
| ers-sanc | https://www.ers.pt/pt/intervencao-sancionatoria/ | official register | POST https://www.ers.pt/umbraco/surface/Combos/GerarCombos id=<year/type node>&page=<n> for every year 2011–2026 and every sanction type — 694 decisions indexed; no entry names this operating company | 30 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — pt: https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/pt | en: https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/en | nl: https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/nl | fr: https://www.hdclinicalgarve.com/fr | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § B closed lexicon — absolute_future: M7-B (without pain)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → 3 (Operator review under the single fleet reading: the quoted sentence carries no absolute; quote re-verified on the live page) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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.