Helios Dermatology Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 47.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Dermatology and aesthetic-medicine clinic operating as part of Al Ansari Medical Center in Salmiya. A single physician is named as founder and director with qualifications and role, tied to this address. Certification and equipment claims are described in narrative form without registration numbers; the chamber register was searched by the clinic and parent-centre names and returned no matching entry.
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 | 4.5 out of 5 · reviews: 30 |
|---|---|
| Opening hours as published on the listing |
|
| 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 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 Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The founding physician is named with role and qualifications in the clinic's About section, tied to this Salmiya address. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: asps_international, 18 September 2026 — Run for Dr. Helen Azaryan, dermatologist-venereologist and founder: not in the ISAPS Kuwait member list (13 members) and not in the ASPS Kuwait international-member list (5 members); both routes are plastic-surgery bodies and hold no dermatology roster for Kuwait. Neither route publishes a Kuwaiti licence number, a licence status or an expiry date, so the licence datum cannot be obtained from any reachable source. The Ministry of Health Health Licensing Department search is not reachable by any scripted request from outside Kuwait: DNS resolves but no TCP session is established, re-proved on 2026-09-18 from two independent egresses (see registry-map closedAttempt). No claim either way. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: none_found, 18 September 2026 — No secondary route to a Kuwaiti facility register exists: the search of 2026-09-18 recorded in registry-map facility_registry.secondarySearchLog returned nothing of this class. The clinic publishes no facility licence number of its own on the pages re-read on 2026-09-18, so the clinic-published anchor does not apply. The Ministry of Health facility search runs on the same host as the licence search and is not reachable by any scripted request from outside Kuwait (re-proved 2026-09-18). No claim either way. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| 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. |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, certification or facility numbers published; qualifications are described narratively only. [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. Unattributed superlatives recur across the clinic’s own single-front English copy (home, about and services sections); no outcome or safety guarantee found — the one appearance of "100%" is the clinic’s own statement that permanent hair removal is not guaranteed for everyone. Page loaded 2026-09-18: https://www.heliosclinickw.com/. [site] establishing itself as one of the leading dermatology clinics in Kuwait | a well-known professional dermatologist |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Contraindications are published for two treatments (mesotherapy, hydrafacial) in the clinic's own service copy; no consent, aftercare, revision or complaint material published. [site] |
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] [waze] |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Helen Azaryan [site] | Dermatologist-venereologist, physician-cosmetologist; Founder & CEO, Helios Dermatology Clinic | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Register closed to machine queries
- 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.heliosclinickw.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +965 2565 1898 |
| Address | Al Ansari Medical Center, Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari Street 22, Block 12, 4th Ring Road, Salmiya, Kuwait |
| City | Salmiya |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.heliosclinickw.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, services menu, treatment contraindications | 30 August 2026 |
| waze | https://www.waze.com/live-map/directions/kw/hawalli-governorate/sal… | secondary | independent map listing: name (Al Ansari Medical Clinic - Helios Dermatology), Salmiya address | 30 August 2026 |
| kcci | https://www.kuwaitchamber.org.kw/echamber/website/ws_searching.jsp?… | secondary | GET ws_searching.jsp searchIn=1 S001_F000=<هيليوس in windows-1256> S001_F999=on, and the same request with S001_F000=<الانصاري> and <مركز الانصاري الطبي>, after GET /echamber/website/index.jsp for the JSESSIONID -- legal-entity register queried, no matching medical entity retrieved | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run against the clinic’s own live pages (v1.1 pass 1); two verifiable quotes were taken from the page served on 2026-09-18.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-typed after re-probing the Ministry of Health facility search from two egresses (v1.2 pass 1): the class is closed to scripted queries and no secondary route of this class exists.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-typed after re-probing the Ministry of Health licence search from two egresses (v1.2 pass 1): the class is closed to scripted queries, and the two secondary routes on the map were run for this record.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.heliosclinickw.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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.