IPFace — Instituto Português da Face
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 68.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #28 of 32 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Facial medicine institute in Lisbon covering orthognathic and maxillofacial surgery, facial plastic surgery, facial aesthetic medicine and dentistry, with Portuguese, English and French fronts. Every physician is listed with an Ordem dos Médicos number. The responsible physician is matched by number in the board register with stomatology, a specialty adjacent to the facial aesthetic work advertised.
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 | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 1,052 |
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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 4 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 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. Register record for cédula 50888: stomatology, a specialty adjacent to the facial aesthetic and plastic work advertised; status current. [om] |
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 Ordem number and tied to this address; the whole team carries Ordem numbers. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. SRER record 169350: name, address and state Registado match. [ers] |
OFF | 10 | 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 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Ordem dos Médicos numbers published for every physician; establishment registration, licence and company numbers not published. [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. Superlative claims about the results appear across the clinic own home pages; no guarantee or absolute-safety wording found. [site] THE BEST AESTHETIC AND FUNCTIONAL RESULT |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Some facts appear on only one front. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (pt, fr, en) on 2026-09-21: a phone number appears on one front only. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-21 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. A complaint route is published; no informed-consent, risks, aftercare or revision document found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
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] [ers] |
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| David Serrano Faustino Ângelo [site] [om] [ers] | Maxillofacial and facial surgeon, founder and technical director of the establishment | 50888 |
Legal entity: INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DA FACE - IPF, LDA · 514183675 [ers] [vies]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.ipface.pt/ |
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| Phone | +351 214 412 544 |
| Address | Rua João Chagas 12B 1º Int. Esq., 1500-493 Lisboa |
| City | Lisbon |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.ipface.pt/ | clinic's own site | responsible physician, role, address, published identifiers, treatment menu, patient information pages | 30 August 2026 |
| om | https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=50888 | official register | Ordem dos Medicos public register: cedula profissional 50888, certified specialties, current status — GET https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=50888 | 30 August 2026 |
| ers | https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=477232 | official register | ERS SRER establishment record 169350: name, address, state, technical director, operating entity and NIF/NIPC — GET https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=477232 | 30 August 2026 |
| vies | https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/51418… | official register | EU VIES lookup of Portuguese NIPC 514183675 against the Autoridade Tributaria register: registered company name and seat — GET https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/514183675 | 30 August 2026 |
| erssanc | https://www.ers.pt/pt/intervencao-sancionatoria/ | official register | ERS sanctions register, all year and type listings 2011-2026 enumerated via POST https://www.ers.pt/umbraco/surface/Combos/GerarCombos id=<node> page=<n> and searched for the operating entity name | 30 August 2026 |
| erscase | https://www.ers.pt/pt/atividade/intervencao-sancionatoria/seleciona… | official register | ERS sanctions register, decision record for the operating entity including the process state line | 30 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.ipface.pt/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — pt: https://www.ipface.pt/ | fr: https://www.ipface.pt/fr | en: https://www.ipface.pt/en | 21 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
Correction or right of reply
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