Dr. Leonardo Canossa — Cirugía Plástica
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 80.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #1 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic surgery practice focused on breast surgery, abdominoplasty, mastopexy, blepharoplasty and otoplasty, with a patient blog on pre- and post-operative care. The surgeon publishes his CMC code on the site.
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 by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. Dr. Luis Leonardo Canossa Montes De Oca is listed in the CMC Buscador de Medicos with licence status Activo and the recognised specialty Cirugía General, Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva (cod. MED4883). [cmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. The surgeon is named on the home page with his field and his CMC code, but the site gives no street address, so the physician is not tied to a location. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by licence number. The site publishes the physician code 4883; the CMC register returns the card "Luis Leonardo Canossa Montes De Oca | Médico y Cirujano | cod. MED4883 | Activo", so the published number and the register agree. [site] [cmc] Código médico: 4883 |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. The clinic trades under a brand name only: no company name with a legal form and no cedula juridica is published on any of its pages (https://leonardocanossa.com/, https://www.leonardocanossa.com/blog). The Hacienda taxpayer register answers on an identification number, so there is nothing to look up. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. The home page publishes the surgeon's physician code (Código médico: 4883), which matches his CMC licence number. No facility permit number and no cedula juridica is published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. Scan of 12 pages in Spanish (home, blog index and the ten blog articles on procedures and post-operative care). No superlative, guarantee or outcome promise from the lexicon appears in the clinic's own copy. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Pages loaded: home, blog index and the blog articles on mastopexy, implant replacement, drains and post-operative massage, healing time, what to do and avoid before surgery, and medical instructions for surgical patients. Of the five document classes only aftercare appears, in the post-operative articles; no consent form, risk disclosure, revision policy or complaint route is published. [site-blog] |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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. Luis Leonardo Canossa Montes de Oca [site] [cmc] | Plastic surgeon, practice owner | MED4883 |
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
- Sanctions / discipline register (Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica — Registro de Infractores (physicians under a firm suspension)): no entry found [cmc-sanctions]
What we could not verify
- 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://leonardocanossa.com/ |
|---|---|
| Address | San José, Costa Rica |
| City | San José |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://leonardocanossa.com/ | clinic's own site | practice name, responsible surgeon, published physician code, procedure list | 20 September 2026 |
| site-blog | https://www.leonardocanossa.com/blog | clinic's own site | patient articles on pre- and post-operative care | 20 September 2026 |
| cmc | https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/search?k=Canossa&sort=last_name_asc | official register | GET https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/search?k=Canossa&sort=last_name_asc — card "Luis Leonardo Canossa Montes De Oca | Médico y Cirujano | cod. MED4883 | Activo | Cirugía General, Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva" | 20 September 2026 |
| cmc-sanctions | https://medicos.cr/web2/registro-de-infractores/ | official register | CMC Registro de Infractores — the 15 physicians currently serving a firm suspension; this physician is not among them | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 1). |
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