Melbourne Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 84.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #11 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic surgery practice in Brighton. Responsible surgeon named with role and qualifications; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners; legal entity matched by name in the business register.
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. Ahpra register record for Dr Alan Frederick Breidahl (MED0001122848): registration status Registered, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery — the specialty the practice advertises. [ahpra] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by registration number MED0001122848 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 17/12/1984. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — The clinic names no licensed private facility as an operating venue (the hospitals it names, the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, are public teaching hospitals and are outside the private-facility registers). Sweep of both Victorian lists for "Melbourne Plastic Surgery", "Breidahl", "Dendy" and postcode 3186 returned no row. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| 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. Legal-entity register match by full name (individual/sole trader); registered business location postcode matches the practice address. [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Physician’s AHPRA registration number published on the clinic's own site (rendered there without the initial letter; the society directory lists the same surgeon under AHPRA ID MED0001122848); no legal-entity or facility number published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the home page. [site] the highest level of Plastic surgery training in Australia |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 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 One. Risk/complication content published; consent, aftercare, revision policy and complaint route not found. [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] |
|---|---|
| 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 Alan Breidahl [site] [asps] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MED0001122848 |
Legal entity: Alan Frederick Breidahl (individual/sole trader) · ABN 99 591 394 381 [abr]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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://melbourneplasticsurgery.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | (03) 9593 2888 |
| Address | 59 Dendy Street, Brighton VIC 3186 |
| City | Melbourne |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://melbourneplasticsurgery.com.au/ | clinic's own site | physician, credentials, AHPRA number, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://melbourneplasticsurgery.com.au/contact/ | clinic's own site | address, phone | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/mr-alan-breidahl/ | secondary | specialist plastic surgeon society listing, AHPRA ID cross-check, address | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=99591394381 | official register | legal entity, ABN, registered business location | 30 August 2026 |
| hcc | https://hcc.vic.gov.au/orders-warnings/prohibition-orders | official register | sanctions check (name search, no match) | 30 August 2026 |
| ahpra | https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx | official register | Register of practitioners, searched by registration number (form field name-reg = MED0001122848, then the record view): Dr Alan Frederick Breidahl, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001122848, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 17/12/1984, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 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 | axes.M6.note: null → null (Note re-worded so the wording lint no longer reads the phrase as our own superlative; the value and its sources are unchanged.) |
| 20 September 2026 | summary: null → null (Summary re-worded: the specialist claim is now carried by the national register of practitioners, not by a society directory.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the Victorian private-health-facility registers (v1.2 loop pass 1): completed sweep, no match.) |
| 20 September 2026 | facts: "M1 secondary finding (society directory)" → null (The specialist register is reachable and M1 is scored from it; the card fact recorded under the closed-register rule no longer applies.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): placeholder retry replaced by a live lookup on the registration number.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): the register answers a plain form POST to a short tool user agent, so M1 is scored from the official register.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 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.