Institut de chirurgie plastique de Westmount
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 74.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 10 ranked clinics · last checked 29 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Plastic-surgery clinic in Westmount. Responsible surgeon named with role and tied to this address; 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.
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 in the register; the register does not disclose specialty. Québec's CMQ physician directory is captcha-gated and could not be queried; specialty corroborated instead via an independent teaching-hospital source (secondary), per this register map's methodology decision, capping the value at 3. [mcgill-alumni] |
SEC | 26 | 2026-08-29 | |
| 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. Québec's CMQ physician directory requires a Cloudflare Turnstile token and could not be queried. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-29 |
| 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 Legal entity and registration number published and matched in the register. Active federal corporation matched under the treating surgeon's own name in the Corporations Canada register. [corpcan-search] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-29 |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives. 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 Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
| 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]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (CPSBC 'Public notifications' — Disciplinary actions / Non-nominal disciplinary actions / Interim orders tables, College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia; equivalent is the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) 'Tribunal Outcomes' feed (via dialogue.cpso.on.ca) for Ontario): could not verify
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence
- M6 · Self-disclosure of identifiers
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. 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) | 29 August 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 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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