Aesthetic-medicine & plastic-surgery clinics: structural verification register

For every clinic we check who the responsible physician is, whether the official registers confirm the specialist certification and licence, whether the facility and the legal entity can be traced, whether the clinic publishes its own identifiers, and whether its advertising stays honest. We do not assess treatment outcomes, skill or complications, and nothing here is medical advice.

How the score is built → · Registers we check against

21 ranked of 23 listed · data last refreshed 30 August 2026

#	Clinic	Score/100	Cov.	M4	M5	M8	M9
1	Bisson Plastic Surgery · Wellington Specialist-led	93.4	95%			?
2	Wellington Plastic Surgery Institute · Wellington Specialist-led	91.6	95%			?
3	Cutting Edge Plastic Surgery · Auckland Specialist-led	90	90%			?	?
4	Emily Yassaie Plastic Surgery · Wellington Specialist-led	88.3	90%			?	?
5	Auckland Plastic Surgery Group · Auckland Specialist-led	87.9	95%			?
6	Skin Institute Wellington · Wellington Specialist-led	84.8	85%	?		?
6	Dr Meredith Simcock — Plastic Surgeon · Auckland Specialist-led	84.8	82%		?	?	?
8	Alessandra Canal, Plastic Surgeon · Auckland Specialist-led	83.9	90%			?	?
9	Davidson Surgical · Christchurch Specialist-led	82.1	95%			?
9	KM Surgical & Dermatology Associates · Christchurch Specialist-led	82.1	95%			?
11	Facial Surgery — Dr Jonathan Wheeler · Auckland Specialist-led	81.3	87%		?	?
12	St Marks Breast Centre · Auckland Specialist-led	78.8	80%	?		?	?
13	Face, Breast & Body · Christchurch Specialist-led	77.9	95%			?
14	Vital Face & Vein · Wellington	75.4	85%	?		?
15	The James Clinic · Christchurch Specialist-led	73.2	95%			?
16	Nautilus Plastic Surgery · Christchurch Specialist-led	72.6	95%			?
17	Zachary Moaveni Plastic Surgery · Auckland Specialist-led	71.8	77%	?	?	?
18	Satini Cosmetic Clinic · Christchurch	68.6	85%	?		?
19	Face Doctors · Auckland	59.9	80%	?		?	?
20	FaceWorks · Auckland	56.8	80%	?		?	?
21	Face Value · Christchurch	55.1▼	85%	?		?

Score = weighted average of the axes that hold a value, on a 0–100 scale, per the open methodology. A score is published only when at least 75% of the axis weight is sourced. Axis cells show the 1–5 rubric value.

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

Listed, not ranked

These clinics pass the inclusion policy but have no published score: either coverage is below the threshold (verification pending), the responsible physician is not named (verification unavailable), or the profile is held. None of this is a finding against the clinic.

#	Clinic	Status	Cov.	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	M7	M8	M9
—	Doctor Stephen Mills — Plastic Surgeon · Auckland	verification pending	72%				?	?			?	?
—	Ashley Aesthetics · Wellington	verification pending	73%				?			?	?

By procedure

Each slice lists the clinics whose own menu names the procedure, ranked by the same score. The slice does not assess results.

Rhinoplasty (7 ranked)
Breast surgery (13 ranked)
Liposuction & body contouring (9 ranked)
Hair transplant (0 ranked)
Injectables (11 ranked)
Medical weight loss (0 ranked)

Registers we check against

Country map for New Zealand, compiled 29 August 2026. Where a register class does not exist publicly, the corresponding axis is not applicable and is dropped from the normalisation — we never simulate a register.

Specialist board register	Medical Council of New Zealand / Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa — Register of Doctors: the statutory register kept under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, showing each doctor's VOCATIONAL SCOPE of practice (the NZ equivalent of specialist certification, e.g. 'Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery', 'Dermatology') with the date the scope was awarded, plus Notes and Conditions (open, machine-readable)
Medical licence register	Medical Council of New Zealand / Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa — Register of Doctors: the same statutory register, used here for the licence facet — whether the doctor is registered at all, the registration Status (Practising / Not Practising / Inactive / Suspended), the current annual practising certificate (APC) dates, and any Conditions on practice (open, machine-readable)
Facility register	HealthCERT (Ministry of Health / Manatū Hauora) — certification of health care services under the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001; queried through the official bulk export 'Certified Private hospital providers' (the certified NGO-hospital premises list, which is where NZ day-stay and overnight surgical facilities, incl. the private hospitals used for cosmetic surgery, appear) (open, machine-readable)
Company register	New Zealand Companies Register (Companies Office, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) — the statutory register of companies incorporated or registered in New Zealand, carrying company number, NZBN, status, entity type, incorporation date, registered office / address for service, directors, ultimate holding company and annual-return filing history (open, machine-readable)
Sanctions / discipline register	Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal / Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiaki Hauora (HPDT) — the statutory tribunal constituted under s 84 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 that hears disciplinary charges against registered health practitioners; its public decision database publishes file number, decision date, profession, scope of practice, practitioner name, established charge characteristics, penalties, suppression and appeal orders, and the full decision PDFs (open, machine-readable)
Foreign-patient register	no public register of this class in this country

What this register does not do

We do not measure treatment outcomes, surgical skill or complication rates.
We do not see clinics without a public web presence.
Register classes this country does not publish are named as unavailable; we never simulate a register.
We take no money from clinics, we do not book, and we do not refer.
Fame, review volume, domain age and social-media following are not scored anywhere.