Amai
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 73.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Med-aesthetic clinic in Naxxar, trading under the Estetika name until it was rebranded, offering laser hair removal, injectables, skin and body treatments, beauty services and a plastic-surgery list covering breast, body and face procedures performed by visiting surgeons. Three doctors are named with roles on the team page; the plastic surgeon named is entered in the Medical Council's Specialist Accreditation Register under plastic surgery. The operating company is named in the clinic's privacy policy and matched by name in the Malta Business Registry, without a registration 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 matches what this physician advertises. Specialist Accreditation Register, PLASTIC SURGERY list: 4822 Dr. Liapakis Ioannis, matching the plastic-surgery services advertised. Micallef Adrian appears in the FAMILY MEDICINE list; the third named doctor was not found in that register. [board] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
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). Matched by name in the Medical Practitioners Principal List: 4822 Liapakis Ioannis, 1922 Micallef Adrian. The third named doctor was not matched under the spelling published on the site, and no conclusion is drawn from that. The clinic does not publish practitioner registration numbers. [council] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — 0 rows across all 748 register rows for the terms Amai, Naxxar / In-Naxxar, St Paul Street, Markiz Scicluna Street; the server-side search leg returned total_results 0 on Clinic_Medical and on Private_Hospitals for the same terms. Register answered HTTP 200 (two tables needed a retry after a transient Cloudflare managed challenge). Every table of the Licenced Establishments register was downloaded in full and searched on the establishment name, the street and the locality in both the Maltese and the English spelling; no row for this clinic or this address was returned. The register carries no aesthetic-medicine category, and no conclusion about the facility is drawn from the absence. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| 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. The clinic’s privacy policy names Pentamer LTD at the clinic’s own address; C 36252 PENTAMER LIMITED is present in the Malta Business Registry publications feed (Annual Return published 2025-11-11). Matched by name; the clinic does not publish the registration number. [privacy] [company] This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Pentamer LTD, St. Paul Street c/w Markiz Scicluna Street, Naxxar. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
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. The home page carries a satisfaction-guarantee statement, rendered next to a counter whose target value in the page source is 100 per cent. [v1.3 lexicon re-read 2026-09-22: satisfaction → 3; M7-D] [site] Satisfaction Guaranteed! |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. |
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 [contact] [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [breast] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [breast] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [team] |
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 Ioannis Liapakis [team] [board] [council] | Plastic surgeon | 4822 |
| Dr Adrian Micallef [team] [council] [board] | Aesthetic doctor | 1922 |
| Dr Elena Gauci [team] | Aesthetic doctor | not published |
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [about]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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.amai.com.mt/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +356 21340503 |
| Address | Amai, St Paul Street c/w Markiz Scicluna Street, Naxxar NXR 4012 |
| City | Naxxar |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.amai.com.mt/ | clinic's own site | brand, treatment menu, guarantee quote | 30 August 2026 |
| team | https://www.amai.com.mt/our-team/ | clinic's own site | named doctors with roles | 30 August 2026 |
| about | https://www.amai.com.mt/about-us/ | clinic's own site | clinic history, rebrand from Estetika, addition of plastic surgery | 30 August 2026 |
| contact | https://www.amai.com.mt/contact/ | clinic's own site | address, phone, email | 30 August 2026 |
| breast | https://www.amai.com.mt/plastic-surgery/breast/ | clinic's own site | breast surgery menu, recovery text | 30 August 2026 |
| body | https://www.amai.com.mt/plastic-surgery/body/ | clinic's own site | body surgery menu, complications and recovery text | 30 August 2026 |
| board | https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mcsac24.11… | official register | Medical Council Specialist Accreditation Register; GET https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mcsac24.11.2025.pdf then pdftotext -layout, section PLASTIC SURGERY | 30 August 2026 |
| council | https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/mcdocsfull… | official register | Medical Register, Medical Practitioners Principal List; GET https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/mcdocsfull-1.pdf then pdftotext -layout, rows matched by surname | 30 August 2026 |
| privacy | https://www.amai.com.mt/privacy-policy/ | clinic's own site | operating company named in the clinic’s own privacy policy | 20 September 2026 |
| company | https://api.baros.mbr.mt/api/queries/public/trigger/get_publications | official register | Malta Business Registry publications feed; POST https://api.baros.mbr.mt/api/queries/public/trigger/get_publications body {"data":{"publication_date":"2025-11-11"}} Origin: https://baros.mbr.mt, row “C 36252 | PENTAMER LIMITED | Annual Return” | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → 3 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § B closed lexicon — satisfaction: M7-D) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 4 (Re-read the clinic’s privacy policy and re-run the Malta Business Registry publications feed (v1.1 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the Licenced Establishments register; placeholder retry replaced with a logged not_found (v1.1 pass 1).) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.