Amai
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 #6 of 11 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 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 home page carries a satisfaction-guarantee statement.
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 by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. 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. 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. The Licenced Establishments register lists licence holders and premises for eight medical clinics only and has no aesthetic-medicine category; no entry for this address was found and no conclusion is drawn from that. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-30 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. No operating company is named on the site. Companies carrying the clinic's former trading name appear in the Malta Business Registry publications feed, but nothing on the site ties them to this clinic, so the cell is left unverified. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-30 |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Guarantee or ‘100%’-class statement (bright line; cap candidate). The home page carries a satisfaction-guarantee statement, rendered next to a counter whose target value in the page source is 100 per cent. [site] Satisfaction Guaranteed! |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Single English-language front; no second language front to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://www.amai.com.mt/ (en, 2026-08-30) states: “Satisfaction Guaranteed!”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site]
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 [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 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [about]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. 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 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.