Volvat Stokkan
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 46.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #18 of 18 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Multi-specialty private surgical clinic in Trondheim (founded 1988 as Klinikk Stokkan, now part of the Volvat chain) offering plastic surgery among other specialties. Its founding plastic surgeon is named in the clinic's own published material.
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 | 4.6 out of 5 · reviews: 93 |
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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 4 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 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, 18 September 2026 — ISAPS find-a-surgeon, Norway: 20 members listed on 2026-09-18; Frode Samdal is among them (clinic field: Volvat Stokkan). Recorded in facts[]; M1 stays unscored while Helsepersonellregisteret is login-gated. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Physician named with role and historical tie to this clinic in the chain's own published article; current day-to-day tie to this specific address is not explicit in the retrieved page. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence 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: clinic_pages, 18 September 2026 — HPR re-probed 2026-09-18 and still refuses an unauthenticated client: https://register.helsedirektoratet.no/hpr answers HTTP 302 to /hpr/Login and the login wall reads «Vennligst logg inn for å bruke tjenesten»; https://api.offentlig.hpr.nhn.no/v1/personer/?hprNummer=100000 answers HTTP 401 with header www-authenticate: Bearer. Secondary routes carry no autorisasjon data (ISAPS and Legelisten are membership and review directories), and no HPR-nummer is published on the clinic’s own pages, so the M3 = 3 anchor is not available. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| 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 (Volvat Medisinske Senter AS) and this branch (underenhet, avd. Stokkan) matched by name and address in Enhetsregisteret. [brreg] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or company registration numbers found published on the site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty An unconditional absolute about the patient's future safety or the treatment outcome — zero risk, no complications, “100% safe”, “result guaranteed” — in the clinic's own rendered text (bright line; cap 65). The procedure pages state in the clinic’s own text that its experience is the patient’s guarantee of a safe treatment without discomfort — an outcome and safety guarantee. Pages loaded: https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/bukplastikk/ and https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/fettsuging/. [site] Vår erfaring er din garanti for en smertefri og trygg behandling. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents Four. Presence scan of the clinic’s own live pages on 2026-09-18: risks and possible complications published per procedure, before/after-operation instructions, a written revision policy (inngrepsgaranti ved brystforstørring), and a patient complaint route (Klageskjema with the klagerett explained); the published consent forms cover release of records and appointment administration, so no informed-consent document for treatment was found. Pages loaded: https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/ ; https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/bukplastikk/ ; https://www.volvat.no/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/brystforstorrelse/garanti-ved-brystforstorring-med-silikon/ ; https://www.volvat.no/kontakt-oss/klage/ ; https://www.volvat.no/kontakt-oss/ ; https://www.volvat.no/personvern/. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/bukplastikk/ (nb, 2026-09-18) states: “Vår erfaring er din garanti for en smertefri og trygg behandling.”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site]
Ceilings are applied only from verified-false findings with the exact quote or register entry cited. The clinic has a right of reply; a statement with a source changes the data, a statement without one is shown next to it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frode Samdal [site] | Plastic surgeon (overlege dr.med.), clinic founder (founded the predecessor Klinikk Stokkan in 1988) | not published |
Legal entity: Volvat Medisinske Senter AS (avd. Stokkan) · 982755999 [brreg]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECISAPS find-a-surgeon lists Frode Samdal among the 20 members it shows for Norway, with the clinic field "Volvat Stokkan". An international society listing, not the Norwegian state register.[isaps]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- 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://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/ |
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| Phone | +47 73 87 39 00 |
| Address | Fjordgata 68, 7010 Trondheim |
| City | Trondheim |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/ | clinic's own site | address, contacts, menu, superlative language | 31 August 2026 |
| site-article | https://www.volvat.no/aktuelt/plastikkirurgen--storre-aksept-og-ape… | clinic's own site | named physician (Frode Samdal) tied to Volvat Stokkan | 31 August 2026 |
| brreg | https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/underenheter/982755999 | official register | branch registration, address, parent legal entity Volvat Medisinske Senter AS | 31 August 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4405 | secondary | ISAPS find-a-surgeon filtered to Norway (locations=4405, pages 1-3, server-rendered): 20 members listed with name and, where given, clinic | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 2 (Re-run against the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 4 (Re-run against the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run against Helsepersonellregisteret and the secondary routes (v1.2 pass 1): the register is login-gated and the clinic publishes no HPR number, so the cell is typed registry_closed) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1.nullReason: "retry" → "registry_closed" (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): specialist register closed for the whole site (closedAttempt on record): the axis leaves the coverage denominator) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.volvat.no/lokasjoner/trondheim/tjenester/plastisk-kirurgi/ (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.