Dr. Erick Santos — Cirugía Plástica y Estética
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 57.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 16 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic-surgery practice at The Panamá Clinic Town Center offering facial and body surgery, with consultations also given at Hospital Paitilla. The surgeon is named with his role and training, and is listed in the national plastic-surgery association directory and in the ISAPS Panama member list; the state registers were not machine-accessible.
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: apcper, 18 September 2026 — Match: listed as a certified member of the association and among the 15 ISAPS members registered in Panama, where the entry gives "Panama Clinic, Town Center, Pacfica Salud" and the practice website; neither source carries a state registration number. Finding recorded in facts[]. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The surgeon is named with his role in the site header, on the About page and on the contact page, tied to the Town Center location. [site] [site-about] [site-contact] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 — MINSA / Consejo Técnico de Salud — Consulta de Profesionales Idóneos probed 2026-09-18: GET https://idoneidad.minsa.gob.pa/ and GET https://wsidoneidad.minsa.gob.pa/api/Profesions with a browser User-Agent, both HTTP 000 — no TCP connection after 21 s. Secondary routes for this class: none_found (registry-map secondarySearchLog). Clinic pages loaded 2026-09-18 (https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/, https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/sobre-mi/, https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/contacto/, https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/cirugias-y-procedimientos-corporales/, https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/cirugias-y-procedimientos-faciales/): no idoneidad or professional registration number published. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Pages loaded 2026-09-18 (home, /sobre-mi/, /contacto/, both procedure pages) carry the practice name only — no company name with a legal form and no RUC. The DGI electronic-invoicing register was queried on "ERICK SANTOS" and "PLASTIC SURGERY" and returned no row for this practice; the register covers taxpayers affiliated to electronic invoicing only, so absence there is not a finding. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Membership of the national plastic-surgery association is stated without a membership number, and no certificate or registration number is published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Lexicon scan of https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/, /sobre-mi/, /contacto/ and both procedure pages on 2026-09-18: two soft superlatives, one quoted (the About page also describes the surgeon’s training as "de primera clase"); no outcome or safety assurance in the practice’s own text. [site-about] Queremos orientarte, cuidar tu salud y darte el mejor resultado posible. |
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 None. Pages loaded 2026-09-18 (home, /sobre-mi/, /contacto/, /cirugias-y-procedimientos-corporales/, /cirugias-y-procedimientos-faciales/): none of the five document classes — informed consent, risks or contraindications, aftercare, revision policy, complaint route — is published. [site] |
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] |
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. Erick Samuel Santos De Mello [site] [site-about] [apcper] [isaps] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [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 SECListed in the APCPER member directory (national plastic-surgery association, not the state board) and in the ISAPS Panama member list; the state idoneidad-de-especialista register was not reachable, so state provenance is unavailable.[apcper] [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://cirujanoplasticopty.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +507 6243-9489 |
| Address | The Panamá Clinic — Town Center, Ciudad de Panamá |
| City | Panama City |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, location, phone, procedure menu, self-description | 18 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/sobre-mi/ | clinic's own site | physician training, association membership, self-description | 18 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/contacto/ | clinic's own site | consultation locations, phones | 18 September 2026 |
| site-body | https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/cirugias-y-procedimientos-corporales/ | clinic's own site | body procedure menu (lipoaspiration, lipoabdominoplasty, breast implants) | 18 September 2026 |
| site-face | https://cirujanoplasticopty.com/cirugias-y-procedimientos-faciales/ | clinic's own site | facial procedure menu (rhinoplasty, botulinum toxin) | 18 September 2026 |
| apcper | https://www.asociacionpanamenadecirugiaplastica.com/doctor-erick-sa… | secondary | certified-member entry in the national plastic-surgery association directory | 18 September 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4812&page=2 | secondary | membership entry in the ISAPS Panama member list (job title, clinic, phone, website) | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 1). |
Correction or right of reply
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