Vía Bellezza — Dr. Mario Alvarenga
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 72.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #8 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic surgery practice at Momentum Pinares offering breast augmentation and reduction, rhinoplasty, buccal fat removal, submental liposuction, gluteal augmentation and facial rejuvenation, with a physiotherapy service for recovery.
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. Mario Alvarenga Barragán is listed in the CMC Buscador de Medicos with licence status Activo and the recognised specialty Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (cod. MED6871). [cmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The surgeon is named in the practice name and throughout the site, and the home page gives the floor and building where the practice sits. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name. Matched by name in the CMC colegiatura register: Médico y Cirujano, cod. MED6871, status Activo. The clinic publishes no CMC code of its own, so the match is on the name. [cmc] |
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://elescultordecuerpos.com/, https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/rinoplastia/, https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/aumento-mamario/, https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/rejuvenecimiento-facial/). 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. Pages loaded: home and the ten procedure pages. No licence number, membership number, facility permit or cedula juridica is published anywhere on the site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives. Scan of 12 pages in Spanish (home and the procedure pages). One soft superlative in the clinic's own copy, quoted here; the other two superlatives on the site sit inside quoted patient comments. No guarantee from the bright line is published. [site-facial] primero se debe hacer una valoración para determinar cuál es la mejor técnica |
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 Two or three. Pages loaded: home and the breast augmentation, breast reduction, rhinoplasty, buccal fat removal, submental liposuction, gluteal augmentation, abdominoplasty and facial-rejuvenation pages. Two of the five document classes appear: risks, side effects and complications on the breast, rhinoplasty and submental liposuction pages, and post-operative care on the buccal-fat, rhinoplasty and breast-reduction pages. No consent form, revision policy or complaint route is published. [site-breast] [site-rhino] |
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. Mario Alvarenga Barragán [site] [cmc] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | MED6871 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- 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://elescultordecuerpos.com/ |
|---|---|
| Address | Torre Médica, piso 4, Momentum Pinares, 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://elescultordecuerpos.com/ | clinic's own site | practice name, responsible surgeon, location, service list, opening hours | 20 September 2026 |
| site-breast | https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/aumento-mamario/ | clinic's own site | breast augmentation procedure page with risks and complications | 20 September 2026 |
| site-rhino | https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/rinoplastia/ | clinic's own site | rhinoplasty procedure page with complications and post-operative care | 20 September 2026 |
| site-facial | https://www.elescultordecuerpos.com/rejuvenecimiento-facial/ | clinic's own site | facial rejuvenation page; the quoted sentence | 20 September 2026 |
| cmc | https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/search?k=Alvarenga&sort=last_name… | official register | GET https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/search?k=Alvarenga&sort=last_name_asc — card "Mario Alvarenga Barragán | Médico y Cirujano | cod. MED6871 | Activo | Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética | Via Bellezza by Dr. Mario Alvarenga Escultor de Cuerpos" | 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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