Coupure Centrum voor Plastische Chirurgie (Tonnard & Verpaele)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Facial plastic-surgery practice in Ghent run by Dr. Patrick Tonnard and Dr. Alexis Verpaele, with a second surgical facility in Sint-Martens-Latem. Both physicians are found in the federal specialist-board register under plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, and the operating legal entity is matched in the company register.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: VL.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 3.8 out of 5 · reviews: 30 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 2 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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 found in HealthPro (FPS Public Health) with specialities MBS45 (plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery), status current. [healthpro-tonnard] [healthpro-verpaele] |
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). Matched by NIHDI number: Tonnard 14513178, Verpaele 14534063; federal visa dated 1990-01-30 and 1992-08-28 respectively. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [healthpro-tonnard] [healthpro-verpaele] |
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 — recordsTotal 0 on every leg. The register covers the whole of Flanders, where this treatment address lies, and the positive control Name=Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent returned recordsTotal 2 in the same session. Belgian law recognises hospitals, not private clinics, so the absence of a row is the expected state and is not a finding about this clinic. Queried in the Flemish care-facility register (CoBRHA Viewer) by enterprise number and by name; no row returned. Belgian law recognises hospitals, not private clinics, so this axis carries no value for a private practice. |
? | ? | 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 COUPURE CENTRUM VOOR PLASTISCHE CHIRURGIE matched in KBO/BCE by enterprise number, address and named directors (Tonnard, Verpaele). [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://tonnardverpaele.com/ — matched by name] [kbo] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or company registration numbers published on the clinic's own site. [site-en] [site-contact] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 superlatives on the clinic's English page (e.g. 'world authority', 'masters of facial aesthetic surgery') without an outcome guarantee. [site-en] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (nl, fr, en) on 2026-09-17: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Two of the five classes are published: risks and complications (a complications section on the MACS-lift and nanofat pages) and aftercare (an aftercare section on the same treatment pages). The general terms describe the treatment contract as an obligation of means under which a particular outcome cannot be demanded, and they close with a choice-of-court clause rather than a complaint route. No informed-consent document or revision policy was found. Pages loaded on 2026-09-20: /, /nl/over-ons, /nl/behandelingen, /nl/signature-behandelingen, /nl/behandelingen/macs-lift, /nl/behandelingen/nanofat, /nl/contact, /nl/algemene-voorwaarden, /nl/privacy-policy and /nl/cookie-policy. [site-en] |
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-en] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-en] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-en] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-en] [riziv] |
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. Patrick Tonnard [site-en] [healthpro-tonnard] [riziv] | Plastic surgeon | 14513178 |
| Dr. Alexis Verpaele [site-en] [healthpro-verpaele] [riziv] | Plastic surgeon | 14534063 |
Legal entity: Coupure Centrum voor Plastische Chirurgie · 0867376077 [kbo]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-en]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: could not verify
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
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://tonnardverpaele.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +32 (0)9 269 94 94 |
| Address | Coupure Rechts 164 C/D, 9000 Gent |
| City | Ghent |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-en | https://tonnardverpaele.com/en | clinic's own site | physician names, roles, treatments, advertising text | 31 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://tonnardverpaele.com/nl/contact | clinic's own site | addresses, contact details, language versions | 31 August 2026 |
| healthpro-tonnard | https://apps.health.belgium.be/healthpro-search-engine/api/professi… | official register | specialist certification MBS45, federal visa, NIHDI number for Patrick Tonnard | 31 August 2026 |
| healthpro-verpaele | https://apps.health.belgium.be/healthpro-search-engine/api/professi… | official register | specialist certification MBS45, federal visa, NIHDI number for Alexis Verpaele | 31 August 2026 |
| riziv | https://webappsa.riziv-inami.fgov.be/silverpages/Home/SearchHcw/?Fo… | secondary | corroboration of competence code 210 and Coupure Centrum practice address for Tonnard and Verpaele | 31 August 2026 |
| kbo | https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?lang=… | official register | legal entity, registration number, seat address, directors | 31 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://tonnardverpaele.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — nl: https://tonnardverpaele.com/ | fr: https://tonnardverpaele.com/fr | en: https://tonnardverpaele.com/en | 17 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://tonnardverpaele.com/ — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 3 (Completed presence check of the five patient-document classes on the clinic pages (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CoBRHA Viewer of the Flemish Departement Zorg (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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