Gkotsikas Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 81.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #3 of 16 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic-surgery practice near Agia Sofia square in central Thessaloniki, covering facial, breast and body surgery, reconstructive surgery and non-surgical treatments such as laser, injectables and peels. The surgeon is named with his role on Greek and English fronts, and his plastic-surgery specialty and registered practice address are found in the Thessaloniki Medical Association member register. Procedure pages set out recovery and complication information; the site publishes no registration numbers.
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 by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. Thessaloniki Medical Association register: ΓΚΟΤΣΙΚΑΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ, specialty ΠΛΑΣΤΙΚΟΣ-ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΟΣ, member id 00013665 — matches the plastic surgery advertised on the site. [isth] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Matched by name in the compulsory medical-association register; the practice publishes no registration number of its own. [isth] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Registered practice on the association record: «Π.Π.ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΥ 28 (1 ΟΡΟΦΟΣ), ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ, 54622, τηλ. 2310234565» — street, floor, postcode and phone match the site. [isth] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-30 |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Quote not re-verified on 2026-08-30; previous value 2 withdrawn. |
? | ? | 12 | 2026-08-30 |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Procedure pages publish recovery/aftercare instructions and a complication list; no consent document, revision policy or complaint route was found. [rhino] |
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] [office] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [rhino] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [bio] [en] |
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 Ioannis Gkotsikas [bio] [en] [isth] | Plastic surgeon, practice owner | 00013665 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
What we could not verify
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability
- M7 · Advertising honesty
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://gkotsikas.gr/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +30 2310 234565 |
| Address | Palaion Patron Germanou 28, 1st floor, 546 22 Thessaloniki |
| City | Thessaloniki |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://gkotsikas.gr/ | clinic's own site | practice name, procedure menu, address, phone | 30 August 2026 |
| bio | https://gkotsikas.gr/profil/viografiko/ | clinic's own site | surgeon name, training, 2010 specialist title, HESPRAS membership | 30 August 2026 |
| office | https://gkotsikas.gr/profil/iatreio/ | clinic's own site | practice address and floor, on-site treatment rooms, operating hospital | 30 August 2026 |
| rhino | https://gkotsikas.gr/plastiki-xeirourgiki/prosopo/rinoplastiki/ | clinic's own site | procedure detail, recovery instructions, complication list, advertising wording | 30 August 2026 |
| en | https://gkotsikas.gr/en/profile/the-doctor/ | clinic's own site | English-language profile used for the cross-locale comparison | 30 August 2026 |
| isth | https://isth.gr/wp-json/doctors/search?per_page=20&page=1&query=%CE… | official register | GET https://isth.gr/wp-json/doctors/search?per_page=20&page=1&query=ΓΚΟΤΣΙΚΑΣ&specialty=&office= — Ιατρικός Σύλλογος Θεσσαλονίκης member register, HTTP 200, X-WP-Total 1: {"id":"00013665","name":"ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ","surname":"ΓΚΟΤΣΙΚΑΣ","specialty":"ΠΛΑΣΤΙΚΟΣ-ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΟΣ","office":[{"address":"Π.Π.ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΥ 28 (1 ΟΡΟΦΟΣ)","city":"ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ","postal_code":"54622","phone":"2310234565"}]} — specialty, membership and registered practice address | 30 August 2026 |
| hespras | https://hespras.gr/el/members/item/356-gkotsikas-ioannis | secondary | listed in the member directory of the Hellenic Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (learned society, not a state register) | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://gkotsikas.gr/plastiki-xeirourgiki/prosopo/rinoplastiki/ (fetch failed (node + curl): Command failed: curl -sL -A Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36 beauty-grid-verifier/1.0 --max-time 20 -w ); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.