Dr. José Obando - Cirugía Plástica
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 58.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #8 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Solo-practice plastic and reconstructive surgery clinic in Quito led by Dr. José Obando. Menu covers facial, breast and body procedures. A physician of the same surname and specialty is named in the SECPRE Capítulo Pichincha member directory (association).
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_pichincha, 18 September 2026 — found. SECPRE Capítulo Pichincha publishes a profile for Dr. José Luis Obando with specialty 'Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética', the awarding university (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) and the consulting room 'Edificio Livenza, consultorio 306, Vozandes N39-34 y Juan Diguja, Quito' — the address the clinic itself publishes. 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_pichincha, 18 September 2026 — no number published by the clinic itself. The SECPRE Capítulo Pichincha profile publishes 'Reg. Scyt: 1027-2023-2779864' for Dr. José Luis Obando, but an association directory is secondary provenance and that number is the degree registration, not the ACESS practising registration — recorded as a fact on M1, not as a licence value. |
? | ? | 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://drjoseobando.com, https://drjoseobando.com/cirujano-plastico-dr-jose-obando/, https://drjoseobando.com/cirujano-plastico-servicios/, https://drjoseobando.com/contacto/. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No guarantee, '100%', or unearned superlative language found on the pages reviewed. [site] |
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 consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route content found on the pages reviewed. [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. José Obando [site] [secpre] | Plastic and reconstructive 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 SECNamed ('DR. JOSE LUIS OBANDO') in the SECPRE Capítulo Pichincha member directory (association, secondary provenance); the SENESCYT specialist-board register is CAPTCHA-gated and was not queried.[secpre]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECSECPRE Capítulo Pichincha publishes a member profile for Dr. José Luis Obando with the specialty 'Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética', the awarding university (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) and the consulting room 'Edificio Livenza, consultorio 306, Vozandes N39-34 y Juan Diguja, Quito' — the address published on the clinic's own site.[secpre-perfil]
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://drjoseobando.com |
|---|---|
| Phone | +593 99 255 5325 |
| Address | Vozandes N39-34 y Juan Diguja, Edificio Livenza, consultorio 306, Quito, Ecuador |
| City | Quito |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drjoseobando.com | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu | 18 September 2026 |
| secpre | https://secprepichincha.org/directorio-medico/ | secondary | association member directory entry | 30 August 2026 |
| secpre-perfil | https://secprepichincha.org/directorio-medico/dr-jose-luis-obando/ | secondary | SECPRE Capítulo Pichincha profile of Dr. José Luis Obando — specialty, awarding university, Reg. Scyt 1027-2023-2779864 and the Edificio Livenza consulting-room address | 18 September 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. |
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