Smile Studios Medical Center
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 67.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #13 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-specialty medical centre in Umm Al Hassam, Manama, with a second branch in Janabiyah, combining dental, dermatology and plastic surgery services. A consultant plastic surgeon and a specialist dermatologist are named with their roles on their own pages of the site, and both are matched by licence number in the national practitioners register at this facility. The centre is on the NHRA licensed-facility register with status Active, first licensed in 2016, with dermatology and plastic surgery among its licensed specialties.
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. Both named physicians are found in the September 2026 practitioners register at SMILE STUDIOS BAHRAIN W.L.L: Category Consultant, Specialty Plastic Surgery, and Category Specialist, Specialty Dermatology; each specialty matches the role the site gives that physician. [nhra-med] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Each physician has a page of his own naming the role and the qualifications, reached from the team section of the home page and tied to this address. [site-salil] [site-walid] [site-home] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by licence number for both physicians: 11007683 and 11011023. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [nhra-med] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility register entry found: building, road and block match the address published by the clinic, licence status Active, first licensed 2016-06-30, Dermatology and Plastic Surgery among the licensed specialties. [nhra-fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. The clinic publishes a trading name only: no legal form and no commercial registration number appear on any page loaded (https://smilestudios.co/ , /who-we-are/ , /our-values/ , /insurance/ , /contact/ and the two physician pages). Re-probed 2026-09-20 with both user agents: POST https://api.sijilat.bh/api/CRdetails/AdvanceSearchCR_Paging without an Authorization header returns HTTP 401 {"Message":"Authorization has been denied for this request."}, and the public ASPX pages render no company rows server-side. Secondary routes searched and none found. [site-home] [site-contact] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, registration, accreditation or VAT number is published on any page loaded; the physicians’ society memberships are listed without numbers. [site-home] [site-contact] [site-salil] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. Lexicon scan over the home, who-we-are, values, insurance, contact, gallery and physician pages. No outcome or safety guarantee and no absolute-percentage claim was found. Unattributed superlative wording recurs across the site, including in the page title of every page and as a closing line on each physician page, with no issuer named. [site-salil] [site-walid] [site-home] One of the best plastic surgeons in Bahrain. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 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 None. Presence check over the home, who-we-are, values, insurance, contact, gallery and physician pages: none of the five document classes (informed consent, risks, aftercare, revision policy, complaint route) is published; the site carries no legal or patient-document section at all. [site-home] [site-contact] [site-insurance] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
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-home] [nhra-fac] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-home] [site-contact] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-home] [site-salil] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-salil] [site-walid] |
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. Salil Bharadwaj [site-salil] [nhra-med] | Consultant Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeon | 11007683 |
| Dr. Walid Abdel Malak [site-walid] [nhra-med] | Specialist Dermatologist and Cosmetologist | 11011023 |
Legal entity: SMILE STUDIOS BAHRAIN W.L.L · 92896 [nhra-fac]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-home]
What we could not verify
- 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://smilestudios.co/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +973 1741 0100 |
| Address | Building 789, Road 3315, Block 333, Umm Al Hassam, Manama |
| City | Manama |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-home | https://smilestudios.co/ | clinic's own site | clinic name, service menu, team section, branches, marketing wording | 20 September 2026 |
| site-salil | https://smilestudios.co/dr-salil-bharadwaj/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, qualifications, procedure list, society memberships, marketing wording | 20 September 2026 |
| site-walid | https://smilestudios.co/dr-walid-abdulmalak/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, qualifications, marketing wording | 20 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://smilestudios.co/who-we-are/ | clinic's own site | history of the centre and the scope of its services | 20 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://smilestudios.co/contact/ | clinic's own site | addresses and phones of both branches, absence of legal-entity and identifier disclosure | 20 September 2026 |
| site-insurance | https://smilestudios.co/insurance/ | clinic's own site | absence of patient-document classes on the only administrative page of the site | 20 September 2026 |
| nhra-med | https://www.nhra.bh/MediaHandler/GenericHandler/documents/departmen… | official register | GET the September 2026 'List of Licensed Medical Practitioners' workbook — rows 'Salil Bharadwaj', License NO. 11007683, Category Consultant, Specialty Plastic Surgery, and 'Walid Abdelmalak', License NO. 11011023, Category Specialist, Specialty Dermatology, both at Facility SMILE STUDIOS BAHRAIN W.L.L | 20 September 2026 |
| nhra-fac | https://www.nhra.bh/OpenData/Licensed%20Facilities/MediaHandler/Gen… | official register | facilitiesData entry Facility_Name_En 'SMILE STUDIOS BAHRAIN W.L.L', License_No 150103-0087, cr_number 92896, License_Status 'Active', First_license_date 2016-06-30, Specialites 'Dermatology,Plastic Surgery,Endodontics,General Dental Practice,Oral Surgery,Maxillofacial Surgery,Orthodontic,Pediatric Dentistry,Periodontics', Building 789 Road 3315 Block 333 MANAMA / UMM ALHASSAM | 20 September 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4136 | secondary | ISAPS member card for this physician and clinic (Bahrain node 4136), status Active | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 loop pass 1); candidate from ISAPS find-a-surgeon for Bahrain, confirmed in both NHRA registers. |
Correction or right of reply
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