Esthetical Surgery Center
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 41.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-physician plastic and reconstructive surgery practice in Ponce. Physician named with role; the ABMS board register shows a Plastic Surgery certification that is no longer current.
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 | 3.9 out of 5 · reviews: 58 |
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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 Only a secondary source (society, association, directory) supports the certification, while the official register of this class is open in the jurisdiction. ABMS Certification Matters: a Plastic Surgery certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (first certified 2003) is on file but is no longer current. [abms-profile] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Sole physician named with role and tied to the Ponce 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 | 2026-09-19 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 19 September 2026 — No row carries the practice name, the physician surname or the street address. The only ambulatory surgical centre on Ave Tito Castro is 40C0001110 at number 921, a different building and operator. The file lists Medicare-certified facilities only; an office-based practice outside it is not a finding. SARAFS (the Puerto Rico facility licence) timed out from both egresses again on 2026-09-19. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-19 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: legal_entity, 18 September 2026 — "ESTHETICAL": 0 results. "PEREZ NIEVES": 1 result, PÉREZ NIEVES GILBERTO INC. (518132-121, non-profit, ACTIVE) — first name Gilberto, not this clinic's Dr. Roberto Pérez Nieves; not a match. "ROBERTO PEREZ NIEVES": 0 results. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-19 |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No certification, licence or registration number published on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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. The clinic’s own home page carries a “100%”-class satisfaction claim. [v1.3 lexicon re-read 2026-09-22: satisfaction → 3; M7-D] [site] Pacientes 100% Satisfechos |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 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 | 2026-09-19 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint content found on the pages checked; the rates page lists what a package includes, not a documented policy. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-02 |
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] |
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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. Roberto Pérez Nieves [site] [abms-profile] | Plastic and reconstructive surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified no
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability — Queried, no match
- 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://estheticalsurgerycenter.com/ |
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| Phone | +1 787-207-7777 |
| Address | 909 Ave. Tito Castro, Suite 805, Ponce, PR 00716 |
| City | Ponce |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://estheticalsurgerycenter.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, superlative quote | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=76265… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Perez%20Nieves&fname=Roberto&state=PR then practitioner profile (“No Longer Certified”) | 2 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | OIG LEIE bulk CSV filtered STATE=PR, LASTNAME contains PEREZ-NIEVES: no matching active exclusion | 2 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → 3 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § B closed lexicon — satisfaction: M7-D) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CMS Provider of Services file from the second egress (v1.2 pass 1 retry): queried, no match.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → null (Departamento de Estado RCP re-searched (loop pass 1): only a different-first-name non-profit exists under this surname — confirmed not a match, reclassified retry -> not_found.) |
| 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 | 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.