The Aesthetic Institute
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 59.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #10 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Cosmetic and aesthetic plastic surgery clinic in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, based at the Northbrook Clinic. Consultations and non-surgical treatments take place at that address and surgery is carried out on the clinic’s theatre lists at a private hospital; the site names a consultant plastic surgeon as the responsible physician.
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 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: plasticsurgery_ie, 18 September 2026 — IAPS member list names Colin Riordan; the association’s own statement about the Specialist Register is a secondary source, so the finding is carried in facts[] and M1 is not scored while the Medical Council’s Specialist Division search is reCAPTCHA-gated. ISAPS find-a-surgeon for Ireland answers HTTP 200 with a client-rendered shell and is left to the operator’s browser pass. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The clinic names its consultant plastic surgeon with his qualifications and his role, and ties him to this address and phone number on its own pages. [site-surgeons] [site-clinics] Colin Riordan is listed on the Irish Medical Council Specialist Register of Plastic Surgeons and is a member of the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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: ftp_notices, 18 September 2026 — No publication notice names this physician, so the one openly readable source of an Irish registration number returns nothing for him, and the clinic publishes no IMC number of its own. The register search was re-probed on 2026-09-18 and still renders “You must answer the reCAPTCHA” with zero rows. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. The address at which the clinic consults and treats is itself a centre on HIQA’s register: Northbrook Clinic, Centre ID 6220, centre type Healthcare, County Dublin, address 15a Northbrook Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 — the same premises the clinic publishes as its own. [hiqa] [site-clinics] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. Scan of the clinic’s own pages (home, about-us, plastic surgeons, our clinics, treatments, FAQ, contact) finds no legal entity named: the footer carries the trading name only and the site publishes no company name with a legal form and no CRO number. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. Scan of the clinic’s own pages: registration is described in words only, with no registration, licence or company numbers and no issuing bodies named against a number. [site-surgeons] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives without guarantees. Superlative claims recur in the clinic’s own text (“World class Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery”, “top quality implants and medicines”, “the only cosmetic surgery clinic in Ireland where…”); no guarantee of an outcome. Pages loaded: home page, about-us, plastic surgeons, our clinics, expertise, FAQ, how-it-works, consultation, treatments, body, breast. [site] World class Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery |
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 Two or three. Two of the five classes are published on the clinic’s own pages: risks and complications, and post-operative aftercare. No revision policy and no complaint route were found. Pages loaded: home page, about-us, FAQ, how-it-works, consultation, treatments, body, breast. [site-faq] As with all surgery there are certain risks, and it’s important for patients to be aware of these in advance of a procedure |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
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] [site-clinics] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-faq] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-surgeons] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-surgeons] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Colin Riordan [site-surgeons] [iaps] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon (FRCSI (Plast), EUR.DIP HAND SURG (FESSH)) | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (Fitness to Practise Inquiry Notifications — Medical Council of Ireland (published sanctions and High Court notices)): no entry found [ftp]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons lists Mr Colin Riordan in its published member list.
[iaps]Colin Riordan FRCSI (Plast) EBOPRAS
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — 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.aestheticinstitute.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 1 491 5738 |
| Address | Aesthetic Institute, Northbrook Clinic, 15A Northbrook Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 CH04 |
| City | Dublin |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.aestheticinstitute.ie/ | clinic's own site | Identifiability, address, phone, treatment menu, the clinic’s own marketing text. | 18 September 2026 |
| site-surgeons | https://www.aestheticinstitute.ie/about-us/plastic-surgeons/ | clinic's own site | The clinic’s own surgeons page: the responsible physician, his qualifications and his stated registrations. | 18 September 2026 |
| site-clinics | https://www.aestheticinstitute.ie/about-us/our-clinics/ | clinic's own site | The clinic’s own locations page: the treatment address and opening hours. | 18 September 2026 |
| site-faq | https://www.aestheticinstitute.ie/about-us/faq/ | clinic's own site | The clinic’s own FAQ: risks and complications, post-operative visits, where procedures are performed, non-surgical treatments offered. | 18 September 2026 |
| iaps | https://www.plasticsurgery.ie/find-a-surgeon/ | secondary | Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons member list (read in full on 2026-09-18): Colin Riordan appears in the membership. | 18 September 2026 |
| hiqa | https://www.hiqa.ie/areas-we-work/find-a-centre/northbrook-clinic | official register | HIQA Find a Centre, GET https://www.hiqa.ie/find-a-centre?field_centre_type_target_id=All&field_county_value=All&keywords=Northbrook then the detail page: Centre ID 6220, centre type Healthcare, County Dublin, address 15a Northbrook Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6. | 18 September 2026 |
| ftp | https://www.medicalcouncil.ie/complaints/past-inquiries/ | official register | Fitness to Practise Inquiry Notifications index and all 19 year pages (2008–2026), 139 notices indexed by name: no notice names Colin Riordan. | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 1). |
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.