Klíníkin Ármúla
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 77.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 9 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-specialty private clinic with a plastic and cosmetic surgery department alongside orthopaedic, digestive, women's-health and pain-management services. Three named physicians on the plastic-surgery team hold the state specialist licence in plastic surgery.
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. Starfsleyfaskrá: three named plastic-surgery-team physicians hold the sérfræðileyfi Lýtaskurðlækningar. [board] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Currently valid Læknir licence on file, no expiry date. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [board] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility registered as operator of healthcare service under the named physicians (RA20-5281, RA17-4273, RA15-4026), cross-confirmed via each physician's Starfsleyfaskrá detail record. [facility] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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. Klíníkin Ármúla ehf., registered 12.11.2014. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.klinikin.is/ — matched by name] [rsk] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence or registration numbers published on the clinic's own site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the home page (unsupported claim of best-available treatment). [site] bestu meðferð sem völ er á |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 4 language fronts (is, en, pl, da) on 2026-09-25: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-25 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Scan of klinikin.is (home, lytalaekningar): dedicated complaint-route class present (footer link "Ábending um það sem betur má fara" plus the app.medalia.is/klinikin/care patient-experience feedback platform); no consent, risk/contraindication, aftercare or revision-policy text found on the loaded pages for the plastic-surgery service line. [m9scan] |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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-lyta] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Helena Sveinsdóttir [site-lyta] [board] | Plastic surgeon (sérfræðingur í lýtalækningum) | RA20-5281 |
| Kári Knútsson [site-lyta] [board] | Plastic surgeon | RA17-4273 |
| Jóhannes Árnason [site-lyta] [board] | Plastic surgeon | RA15-4026 |
Legal entity: Klíníkin Ármúla ehf. · 6811140920 [rsk]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.klinikin.is/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +354 519 7000 |
| Address | Ármúla 9, 108 Reykjavík |
| City | Reykjavík |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.klinikin.is/ | clinic's own site | address, phone, service categories | 31 August 2026 |
| site-lyta | https://www.klinikin.is/lytalaekningar | clinic's own site | named plastic-surgery-team physicians, procedure menu | 31 August 2026 |
| board | https://vefkerfi.landlaeknir.is/apex/f?p=2600:5:0::NO::P5_NAFN:J%C3… | official register | Starfsleyfaskrá — Sérgrein(ar) and valid-licence status per named physician; takmarkað starfsleyfi flag checked, none present | 31 August 2026 |
| facility | https://vefkerfi.landlaeknir.is/apex/f?p=2600:7:0::NO::P7_ADSETUR:K… | official register | Rekstraraðilaskrá CSV export — facility operators at Klíníkin/Klínikin Ármúla, Ármúla 9 | 31 August 2026 |
| rsk | https://www.skatturinn.is/fyrirtaekjaskra/leit/kennitala/6811140920 | official register | legal entity, registration date, ÍSAT code | 31 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.klinikin.is/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — is: https://www.klinikin.is/ | en: https://www.klinikin.is/en/ | pl: https://www.klinikin.is/pl/ | da: https://www.klinikin.is/da/ | 25 September 2026 |
| m9scan | https://www.klinikin.is/lytalaekningar | clinic's own site | M9 patient-document scan: footer complaint-feedback link and Medallia patient-experience platform | 18 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) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.klinikin.is/ — matched by name) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 2 (Re-run against clinic site (v1.2 pass 1): scanned home and plastic-surgery pages, found complaint-route class only.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 4 (Re-run against clinic site (v1.2 pass 1): new soft-superlative quote found and verified on the current home page.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.klinikin.is/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 31 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.