Symplastike — Dr. Andrés Tapia Herrera
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 67.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #16 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery practice at Avenida Escazú, with a nutrition service alongside. The responsible surgeon is named with his role and tied to this address, and his specialist certification is matched in the CMC register.
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. CMC register: Activo, Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (fs=2614). [cmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Licence MED7810 matched, status Activo. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [cmc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| 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. 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://www.drandrestapiah.com/, https://www.drandrestapiah.com/about, https://www.drandrestapiah.com/contact, https://www.drandrestapiah.com/cookie-policy). 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 No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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. Scan of 18 pages in Spanish (home, about, contact, cookie policy and the eight treatment pages). Superlatives recur through the catalogue — the quoted sentence on the home page, and the phrase "tecnologia de punta" repeated on every treatment page. The word "garantiza" appears only in the sense of making sure a treatment plan matches the patient's goals, and the one statement about side effects is qualified, so no guarantee from the bright line is published. [site] Su dedicación a la vanguardia científica en nutrición asegura que nuestros pacientes reciban la mejor orientación nutricional. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (es, en) on 2026-09-20: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
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. Andrés Tapia Herrera [site] [cmc] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | MED7810 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.drandrestapiah.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +506 6447-7774 |
| Address | Avenida Escazú, San Rafael de Escazú, Costa Rica |
| City | Escazú |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drandrestapiah.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu, advertising claim | 31 August 2026 |
| cmc | https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/search?fs=2614&sort=last_name_asc… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence, status | 31 August 2026 |
| cmc-sanctions | https://medicos.cr/web2/registro-de-infractores/ | official register | no active sanction for MED7810 | 31 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.drandrestapiah.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — es: https://www.drandrestapiah.com/ | en: https://www.drandrestapiah.com/en | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | summary: "Single-surgeon plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery practice at Avenida Escazú. Responsible surgeon named with role and tied to this address; specialist certification matched in the CMC register; the clinic's own site states a guaranteed-successful-surgery claim (quoted on the profile)." → "Single-surgeon plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery practice at Avenida Escazú, with a nutrition service alongside. The responsible surgeon is named with his role and tied to this address, and his specialist certification is matched in the CMC register." (Summary rewritten as neutral patient-facing facts (build wording lint; v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Lexicon scan of the clinic site (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Clinic-site scan for a legal entity, then the Hacienda taxpayer register (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.drandrestapiah.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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