Clinica Jóia
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
Cosmetic clinic in Sliema running both a non-surgical menu (injectables, thread lifts, laser and skin treatments, liposculpture) and a plastic-surgery list covering face and neck lift, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, breast surgery, abdominoplasty, liposuction and bariatric procedures. Nine doctors are named with roles on the site; three of them are entered in the Medical Council's Specialist Accreditation Register under plastic surgery and one under ophthalmology. The operating company is matched by name in the Malta Business Registry publications feed.
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 | 4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 97 |
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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.
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: 4064 Dr. Stavrou Demetris, 8331 Dr. Cricri Gabriele, 8341 Dr. Marzetti Andrea — matching the plastic-surgery services advertised. Kovacova Adriana appears in the OPHTHALMOLOGY list, matching the oculoplastic role stated. [board] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Nine doctors named with roles on the home page and the specialists page, tied to the single Sliema address. [site] [specialists] |
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: 4064 Stavrou Demetris, 8331 Cricri Gabriele, 8341 Marzetti Andrea, 8152 Kovacova Adriana, 4693 Bugeja Kristian. Two entries share the name of the clinical director, so no registration number is published for him here. 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 Joia, Clinica, Sliema / Tas-Sliema, Sir Adrian Dingli Street / Triq Sir Adrian Dingli; 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. C 98127 CLINICA JOIA LIMITED is present in the Malta Business Registry publications feed (Annual Accounts published 2026-03-16), matching the clinic's trading name. The site itself does not name the operating company or publish a registration number. [company] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Superlative claims run through the clinic's own home page; no outcome or safety guarantee found. [site] Your first choice for aesthetic & medical procedures |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Procedure pages publish an itemised risks-and-side-effects section and a recovery section, and list questions to ask at consultation; no consent document, revision policy or complaint route found. [rhino] |
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] [specialists] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [rhino] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [rhino] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [specialists] |
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 David Grech [site] [specialists] | Clinical Director and Lead Aesthetic Physician | not published |
| Dr Demetris Stavrou [site] [board] [council] | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | 4064 |
| Dr Gabriele Cricri [site] [board] [council] | Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon | 8331 |
| Dr Andrea Marzetti [site] [board] [council] | ENT and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon | 8341 |
| Dr Adriana Kovacova [site] [board] [council] | Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon | 8152 |
| Dr Kristian Bugeja [site] [council] | Senior Aesthetic Physician | 4693 |
Legal entity: Clinica Joia Limited · C 98127 [company]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [rhino]
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://clinicajoia.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +356 2131 7641 |
| Address | 66, Sir Adrian Dingli Street, Sliema |
| City | Sliema |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://clinicajoia.com/ | clinic's own site | named doctors with roles, surgical and non-surgical menus, address, superlative quote | 30 August 2026 |
| specialists | https://clinicajoia.com/our-specialists/ | clinic's own site | specialist profiles and roles | 30 August 2026 |
| rhino | https://clinicajoia.com/plastic-surgeries/rhinoplasty/ | clinic's own site | surgical procedure detail, risks and side effects, recovery | 30 August 2026 |
| privacy | https://clinicajoia.com/privacy-policy/ | clinic's own site | absence of company identifiers | 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, sections PLASTIC SURGERY and OPHTHALMOLOGY | 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 |
| 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":"2026-03-16"}} Origin: https://baros.mbr.mt, row 'C 98127 | CLINICA JOIA LIMITED | Annual Accounts' | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.