Cañizares Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 65/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #11 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Family plastic-surgery practice in the Hato Rey area of San Juan operating out of the Clinica Las Américas medical building, a federally certified ambulatory surgical centre. Two physicians and a gynecologist are named with role.
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 | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 73 |
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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 Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. ABMS Certification Matters: Dr. Orlando Cañizares (the more recently certified of two same-name San Juan matches, consistent with the practice’s current lead surgeon) currently certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, specialty Plastic Surgery, first certified 2016. [abms-profile-jr] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Physicians named with role and tied to the San Juan address. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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: none_found, 18 September 2026 — Re-probed 2026-09-18 (loop pass 1): orcps.salud.pr.gov, the API host orcpsws.salud.pr.gov and the mirror orcps.salud.gov.pr all still fail to complete a TCP handshake from this egress (curl exit 28 / HTTP 000, confirmed again via a live Chrome session for the sibling facility_registry host); salud.pr.gov is likewise unreachable. A register that answers is not closed — this one still does not. Secondary routes checked and excluded: pr.pcshq.com Juntas Examinadoras 'ESPECIALISTAS EN BELLEZA' board licenses non-physician aesthetic staff only, never doctors; NPPES NPI Registry gives a self-reported licence NUMBER at enumeration only, never a status check; no Puerto Rico medical or dermatology society publishes a licence lookup. none_found. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. CMS Provider of Services file: an ambulatory surgical centre certified for plastic surgery (plstc_srgry_sw=Yes) is registered at the same building and street address (“Clinica Las Americas”, 400 Ave Roosevelt) under a different suite number (301 vs. the clinic’s own suite 412) and municipality label (Hato Rey vs. San Juan). [cms-pos] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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. Departamento de Estado corporate register: Cañizares Plastic Surgery, LLC, index 397018-1511, status ACTIVE; resident agent and officer Orlando Cañizares Rosario match the named physicians (Dr. Orlando Cañizares), and the registered address (Clinica Las Americas, San Juan) matches the clinic address exactly. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://drcanizares.com/ — matched by name] [rcp-search] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Page metadata names the American Board of Plastic Surgery and describes the team as “board-certified specialists”; no licence or registration number published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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). Re-scanned home page 2026-09-18: the clinic’s own text about Botox/dermal fillers states an outcome guarantee (bright line). [site] nuestro equipo garantiza resultados precisos y naturales para que te veas y sientas segura de ti misma |
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 One. General post-operative care (“cuidado postoperatorio”) is mentioned as part of the practice’s philosophy; no consent form, itemised risks, revision policy or complaint route found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-02 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://drcanizares.com/ (es, 2026-09-18) states: “nuestro equipo garantiza resultados precisos y naturales para que te veas y sientas segura de ti misma”. 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] |
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| 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. Orlando Cañizares, Jr. [site] [abms-profile-jr] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Orlando Cañizares, Sr. [site] [abms-profile-sr] | Plastic surgeon (founder) | not published |
| Dra. Lisandra Pagán [site] | Gynecologist | not published |
Legal entity: Cañizares Plastic Surgery, LLC · 397018-1511 [rcp-search]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- 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://drcanizares.com/ |
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| Phone | +1 787-753-1999 |
| Address | Clinica Las Américas, 400 Avenida Roosevelt, Suite 412, San Juan, PR 00918 |
| City | San Juan |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drcanizares.com/ | clinic's own site | physicians, address, phone, menu, superlative quotes | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile-jr | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=11021… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Canizares&fname=Orlando&state=PR then practitioner profile (2016 certification) | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile-sr | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=28260… | official register | same search, second San Juan result (1987 certification, consistent with the founder) | 2 September 2026 |
| cms-pos | https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/086e48c4-87a6-4be1-8823-29… | official register | GET data.cms.gov Provider of Services file filtered state_cd=PR, row prvdr_num=40C0001028 fac_name=CENTRO DE CIRUGIA AMBULATORIA LAS AMERICA, plstc_srgry_sw=Yes | 2 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | OIG LEIE bulk CSV filtered STATE=PR, LASTNAME contains CANIZARES/PAGAN: no matching active exclusion | 2 September 2026 |
| rcp-search | https://rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search | official register | POST rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search q=CANIZARES → CAÑIZARES PLASTIC SURGERY, LLC, 397018-1511, ACTIVE | 2 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
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| 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://drcanizares.com/ — matched by name) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 2 (Clinic-site rescan (loop pass 1): the previously-withdrawn quote is gone, but a new outcome-guarantee statement ("garantiza resultados precisos y naturales") was found in the clinic’s own text — bright-line M7=2.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Register re-probed (loop pass 1, v1.2): medical_licence host confirmed still unreachable from this egress; secondary routes searched and exhausted (none_found) — reclassified retry -> registry_closed, leaves the coverage denominator per v1.2.) |
| 2 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 5 (Departamento de Estado RCP match (follow-up pass)) |
| 2 September 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://drcanizares.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 2 September 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.