German Dental & Dermatology Centre (GDDC)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 63.6/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #7 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 17 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Combined dental and dermatology clinic in Doha. The lead dermatologist is named with credentials on the clinic's own site; the trade name is found in Qatar's Ministry of Commerce and Industry register; the specialist-board and medical-licence registers could not be queried headlessly.
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: isaps, 17 September 2026 — The DHP practitioner search was re-probed first (GET and POST, en and ar) and still returns the JS bot interstitial, so the class stays closed. Secondary routes were then run for Dr. med. Susanne Kottysch (query "Kottysch"), plus the AAD Find a Dermatologist route which has no country dimension: ISAPS name queries returned 0 cards and the ISAPS Qatar member list (13 physicians) does not contain them; the ASPS Qatar international-member list (8 names) does not contain them; the Tabeebak Qatar listings (17 plastic surgeons, 23 + 11 dermatology profiles) do not contain them. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-17 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Named dermatologist with credentials, tied to this clinic. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence The register of this class is not machine-accessible or does not cover this class of practitioner; the clinic itself publishes the number. The register is not machine-accessible; the clinic publishes the dermatologist’s own DHP licence number on its team page ("Dr. Med. Susanne Kottysch — License No: P12795"). [site] License No: P12795 |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-17 | |
| 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: data_gov_qa, 17 September 2026 — The MOPH facility service still answers every scripted request with the F5 BIG-IP image CAPTCHA. Of the two secondary routes, the Qatar Open Data Portal carries only aggregate facility counts and the Hukoomi service page only deep-links back to the CAPTCHA page, so no named facility record exists to match this address against. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-17 |
| 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. Trade name "German Dental and Dermatology Center" matched exactly in the MOCI Single Window Registered Trade Name search; the register does not disclose a company registration number for cross-match. [moci] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Every physician on the team page carries a DHP licence number (P12795 for the dermatologist, D276/D327/D766/D8536 for the dental staff); no facility or legal-entity number is published. [site] License No: P12795 |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-17 | |
| 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. Systematic superlative wording across the page title and headings; no outcome guarantee or 100%-class statement found. [site] Best Dermatologist in Doha Qatar |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Some facts appear on only one front. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, ar) on 2026-09-17: physician "Dr. med. Susanne Kottysch, MD" on en only. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risks, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document found on the pages loaded (rubric anchor 1: none of the five classes). Pages loaded: Loaded the home page, /our-team/, /skin-care-with-skinceuticals/ and /contact-us/. None of the five document classes is published: no consent documentation, no risks or complications page, no aftercar [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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. med. Susanne Kottysch, MD [site] | Dermatologist (German board-certified) | not published |
Legal entity: German Dental and Dermatology Center [moci] [site]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Register closed to machine queries
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://gddc.qa |
|---|---|
| Phone | +974 4441 1711 |
| Address | Doha, Qatar (no street address published on the clinic's own site) |
| City | Doha |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://gddc.qa/dermatology | clinic's own site | physician, credentials, menu, advertising claims | 29 August 2026 |
| moci | https://investor.sw.gov.qa/wps/portal/investors/information-center/… | official register | legal entity (trade name) | 29 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://gddc.qa | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://gddc.qa/ | ar: https://gddc.qa/?lang=ar | 17 September 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4134 | secondary | ISAPS Find a Surgeon, Qatar member list — GET https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4134 (14 cards, 13 physicians; page 2 via &page=2) | 17 September 2026 |
| asps | https://find.plasticsurgery.org/?country=Qatar | secondary | ASPS Find a Plastic Surgeon, Qatar international-member list — GET https://find.plasticsurgery.org/?country=Qatar (8 members) | 17 September 2026 |
| tabeebak | https://tabeebak.qa/search-doctors/plastic-surgeon-in-qatar/0/0 | secondary | Tabeebak Qatar doctor directory — GET https://tabeebak.qa/search-doctors/plastic-surgeon-in-qatar/0/0 (17 plastic-surgeon profiles with clinic attachment) | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 1 (Completed clinic-site scan is a rubric anchor, not a register miss (methodology rubric; v1.1 pass 1 correction).) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → null (Re-run against the clinic site (v1.1 pass 1); typed not_found.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M6: 2 → 4 (Team page re-read (v1.1 pass 1): per-physician licence numbers are published.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the MOPH facility register and its secondary routes (v1.1 pass 1); typed registry_closed.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 3 (Re-run against the DHP register (v1.1 pass 1): register not machine-accessible, licence number published by the clinic.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Re-run against the DHP register and its secondary routes (v1.1 pass 1); typed registry_closed.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 3 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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