Institut de chirurgie plastique de Westmount
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 78/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 22 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic-surgery clinic in Westmount. Responsible surgeon named with role and tied to this address, and listed in the national specialist register with a current certification in plastic surgery; the facility is found in the provincial register of authorized specialized medical centres with a scope covering breast, body-contouring and facial procedures; a federal corporation under the surgeon's own name was matched in the Corporations Canada register.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: QC.
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. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada directory: Papanastasiou, Vasilios W., Montréal, QC, category Fellow, designation FRCSC, certification Plastic Surgery (Primary, Certification by Examination, 1985-11-26). The certification year matches the year the clinic states; status current. [rcpsc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Attempt not completed. Last attempt: medical_licence, 20 September 2026 — http 400 {"url":"/api/directory","statusCode":400,"message":"Error"} — the endpoint rejects a request without a Cloudflare Turnstile token; the bottin page itself serves only a client-rendered shell. The clinic publishes no permit number of its own. Quebec's licence register could not be queried; re-runs in the next pass. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-20 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Facility matched in Québec's register of authorized specialized medical centres at this exact address, with an authorized scope including breast augmentation, rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty. [msss-cms] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| 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. Active federal corporation matched under the treating surgeon's own name in the Corporations Canada register. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)] [corpcan-search] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. The surgeon's certification and society memberships are stated as text with their issuers named; no licence, facility or company registration number is published on the clinic's own pages. [site-doctor] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the surgeon's biography page. [site] His goal as a plastic surgeon has always been simple and straight forward: to deliver the best possible results with the smallest scars and the least amount of discomfort to the patient. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (en, fr, x-français) on 2026-09-17: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. The clinic's FAQ page addresses recovery time off after surgery, but no consent form, itemized risk disclosure or complaint-handling route was found on the reviewed pages. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
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. V.W. Papanastasiou [site] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: V.W. Papanastasiou Medical Services Inc. (Services Médicaux V.W. Papanastasiou Inc.) · 783378-4 [corpcan-search]
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.
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability SECCompany register entry found for V.W. Papanastasiou Medical Services Inc. (Services Médicaux V.W. Papanastasiou Inc.) (783378-4); the clinic's own surface names neither the entity nor the number.[corpcan-search]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Attempt not completed
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://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 514-933-3009 |
| Address | 4131 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Westmount, QC H3Z 1B7 |
| City | Westmount (Montréal) |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, FAQ | 29 August 2026 |
| mcgill-alumni | https://www.mcgill.ca/plasticsurgery/education/residency-program/pl… | secondary | independent teaching-hospital corroboration of plastic-surgery specialty training ('V. William Papanastasiou, M.D.', 1985 graduate of the McGill Plastic Surgery residency program) | 29 August 2026 |
| msss-cms | https://cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/adm/org/sante-quebec/Perm… | official register | facility registration (centre médical spécialisé, authorization 71010039) | 20 September 2026 |
| corpcan-search | https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpSrch.html | official register | POST corpName=Papanastasiou — 1 result: V.W. PAPANASTASIOU MEDICAL SERVICES INC., status Active, corporation number 783378-4 | 29 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/ | fr: https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/fr/ | x-français: https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/fr/ | 20 September 2026 |
| rcpsc | https://www.royalcollege.ca/en/directory/search.html | official register | Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada — public directory of Fellows, Maintenance of Certification participants, Diplomates and Resident Affiliates (national specialist-certification register). Machine query as the directory page itself issues it: GET https://prod-rcdirectory-srch.search.windows.net/indexes/prod-rcd-en-index/docs?api-version=2020-06-30&search=*&$count=true&$filter=last_name eq 'Papanastasiou' with the api-key published in the page component configuration at https://www.royalcollege.ca/content/rcpsc-site-v2/ca/en/directory/search/jcr:content/root/container/columncontrol/path1/directorysearch.model.json — returned row: "last_name":"Papanastasiou","first_name":"Vasilios W.","city":"Montréal","stateprov":"QC","country":"Canada","category":"Fellow","designation":"FRCSC","fellow_date":"1986-02-13","certifications":[{"discipline":"Plastic Surgery","certification_date":"1985-11-26","type":"Primary","category":"Certification by Examination"}] | 20 September 2026 |
| site-doctor | https://plasticsurgery-montreal.com/the-doctor/ | clinic's own site | surgeon biography, stated specialist certification year and society memberships | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | sources.rcpsc.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — society route "rcpsc" is secondary provenance) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 20 September 2026 | sources.msss-cms.url: "https://cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/adm/org/sante-quebec/Permis-autorisations-sante-quebec_autorisation-centre-medical-specialise/Liste_des_centres_medicaux_specialises_ayant_recu_une_autorisation_03.08.2026.pdf" → "https://cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/adm/org/sante-quebec/Permis-autorisations-sante-quebec_autorisation-centre-medical-specialise/Liste_des_centres_medicaux_specialises_ayant_recu_une_autorisation_2026-09-01.pdf" (The cited edition of the Quebec list of authorized specialized medical centres was withdrawn (http 404); repointed to the edition dated 2026-09-01 linked from the Quebec.ca page, which still carries this facility.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M6: null → 2 (Re-run: identifier scan of the clinic's own pages (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run: the CMQ endpoint refuses a request without a Turnstile token; logged with the response (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: 3 → 5 (Re-run against the national specialist register (Royal College directory), which is open and machine-queryable; the earlier value rested on a teaching-hospital page because the provincial register is captcha-gated (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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