Dr. Marcelo Ponce — Cirugía Plástica Facial
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 47.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #18 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Facial plastic-surgery practice inside a private-hospital tower in Guayaquil. The responsible surgeon is named with role and tied to this address, and appears in an open professional-society member roll for the Guayas chapter.
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: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — found. SECPRE Capítulo Guayas member roll lists 'PONCE LOPEZ HERNAN MARCELO', matching the surgeon the clinic names (Dr. Marcelo Ponce López). No ISAPS Ecuador entry. Association provenance, carried as a fact. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| 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 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: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — no registration number published on the clinic's own pages, and no society route carries one for this physician (the SECPRE Guayas roll publishes names only; the SECPRE Pichincha directory has no entry for them; ISAPS publishes no numbers). |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration 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: clinic_published_permit, 18 September 2026 — no operating-permit number is published on the clinic's own pages, and the SRI establishment endpoint cannot be entered without a RUC — the clinic publishes none — and would in any case prove only a registered tax establishment, never a health permit. |
? | ? | 10 | 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. A complete scan of the clinic's own pages found no legal entity and no registration number — the practice trades under the surgeon's own name, a trading name without a company form, and no RUC is published anywhere on the site. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://drmarceloponce.com/. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No identifiers, registration numbers or issuer logos are published on the site. [site] |
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. Repeated exact-outcome claims (years of rejuvenation) without an issuer, a systematic pattern. [site] Rejuvenece Tu Rostro de 15 a 20 años |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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. No informed-consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document was found. [site] |
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. Marcelo Ponce López [site] [secpre] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic 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 no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
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 SECFound in the SECPRE Capítulo Guayas open member roll as PONCE LOPEZ HERNAN MARCELO; association provenance caps this cell at 2.[secpre]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECSECPRE Capítulo Guayas (Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Cirugía Plástica Reconstructiva y Estética) publishes 'PONCE LOPEZ HERNAN MARCELO' on its member roll, matching the surgeon named on the clinic site.
[secpre]PONCE LOPEZ HERNAN MARCELO
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
- M4 · Facility registration — 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://drmarceloponce.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +593 96 797 8586 |
| Address | Omnihospital, Torre Médica II, Piso 11, consultorio 88, Av. Juan Tanca Marengo, Guayaquil |
| City | Guayaquil |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drmarceloponce.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, advertising text | 18 September 2026 |
| secpre | https://secpreguayas.com/Miembros/miembros.html | secondary | PONCE LOPEZ HERNAN MARCELO listed among the Guayas chapter's 78 members | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run on the v1.2 M5 ladder (pass 1): a completed scan of the clinic's own pages is a rubric value, not a miss — the clinic names no legal entity (brand only)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS facility register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS licence register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Secondary routes for the closed specialist register re-run (v1.2 pass 1): ISAPS Ecuador, SECPRE Guayas, SECPRE Pichincha) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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