Zi Institute of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 63.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #1 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Combined plastic-surgery and dermatology clinic in Diliman, Quezon City, run by two named physicians. The dermatologist's entry in the Philippine Dermatological Society member directory names this clinic and repeats its phone number; the plastic surgeon's name is in the PAPRAS Fellows directory. Both rosters are professional societies rather than state registers.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.7 out of 5 · reviews: 40 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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 Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Both physicians are named with their roles on the home page, and the society directory ties the dermatologist to this clinic name, address and phone number. [site] [pds-caparas] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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: philhealth-physicians, 18 September 2026 — 2 rows returned for the two named physicians — row 11255 'CAPARAS | LUTGARDO JR. | CASTRO | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA' and row 11253 'CAPARAS | MARIA CYNTHIA | SUMULONG | DERMATOLOGY AND CUTANEOUS MEDICINE | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA' The national licence register refuses scripted queries behind a reCAPTCHA, so no licence check can be executed. The open PhilHealth list of accredited physicians was run instead as the secondary route. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 18 September 2026 — 0 rows; the whole file was recovered (273 numbered rows, matching the tally PhilHealth publishes) and every search term returned no match for this facility The current PhilHealth list of accredited ambulatory surgical clinics was downloaded and searched in full; it holds no row for this facility. Accreditation is voluntary and covers surgical facilities only, so nothing follows from the absence of a row. |
? | ? | 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. The site publishes a brand name only, with no operating company or registration number; the SEC company search answers scripted requests with a challenge page, so no register match was possible either. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Accreditation and board-certification wording is published without any registration, licence or accreditation number and without a register reference. [site] [site-services] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. Lexicon scan of the home page and the about page on 2026-09-21: no guarantee, 100%-class, best-without-issuer or unlimited-grafts pattern in the clinic’s own copy. The superlatives on the home page sit inside embedded patient reviews, which are out of scope. The services page answered HTTP 403 and was not scanned. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-21 | |
| 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 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No informed-consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document is published on the public pages. [site] [site-services] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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] [site-services] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-services] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [pds-caparas] |
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. Lutgardo "Jun" Caparas Jr. [site] [papras] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
| Dr. Maria Cynthia Sumulong Caparas [site] [pds-caparas] | Dermatologist | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-services]
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 SECThe dermatologist's member page in the Philippine Dermatological Society directory carries the fellowship line and names this clinic; the plastic surgeon's name appears in the PAPRAS Fellows directory. Both are professional societies, not state registers, so this axis is capped at 2 in this country.[pds-caparas] [papras]
- M3 · Basic medical licence SECBoth named physicians appear in the open PhilHealth list of accredited physicians of 31 August 2026: 'CAPARAS | LUTGARDO JR. | CASTRO | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA' and 'CAPARAS | MARIA CYNTHIA | SUMULONG | DERMATOLOGY AND CUTANEOUS MEDICINE | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA'. PhilHealth accreditation presupposes a current Professional Regulation Commission registration; it is voluntary and carries no licence number, so it is shown here rather than scored.[philhealth-physicians]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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://ziinstitute.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +63 917 879 9667 |
| Address | 3rd Floor, Scout Center Building, 38 Sct. Limbaga cor. 55 Sct. Tobias St., Diliman, Quezon City 1103 |
| City | Manila |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://ziinstitute.com/ | clinic's own site | clinic name, Quezon City address, phone, both named physicians and their roles, accreditation wording | 21 September 2026 |
| site-services | https://ziinstitute.com/services/ | clinic's own site | procedure menu used for focus and segments | 30 August 2026 |
| pds-caparas | https://pds.org.ph/member/?profile=cynthia_caparas%40yahoo.com&sour… | secondary | GET https://pds.org.ph/search-doctor/?search_query=Caparas then GET the member page — "Maria Cynthia Sumulong Caparas", fellowship line, Clinic 1 "Zi Institute of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery", phone +63(917)879-96-67 | 30 August 2026 |
| papras | https://www.papras.ph/doctors | secondary | GET https://www.papras.ph/doctors — PAPRAS Fellows directory, 125 cards returned; card "Dr. Lutgardo Caparas Jr." | 30 August 2026 |
| prc-sanctions | https://www.prc.gov.ph/list-professionals-suspended-or-revoked-lice… | official register | GET the index page, then GET all 13 linked batch PDFs; nine yielded text and were searched for MEDICINE rows (only Aster M. Reganit, licence 16232, and Ronaldo R. Unidad, licence 92939, appear) | 30 August 2026 |
| philhealth-physicians | https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/professional/accre… | secondary | pdf https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/professional/accredited/Physicians_08-2026.pdf rows 11255 and 11253 — "CAPARAS | LUTGARDO JR. | CASTRO | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA", "CAPARAS | MARIA CYNTHIA | SUMULONG | DERMATOLOGY AND CUTANEOUS MEDICINE | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA" | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 21 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 5 (Retry cell re-read: the home page and the about page load with curl (the host refuses Node’s fetch by client fingerprint).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Value withdrawn in the same pass: the lexicon scan ran on the live pages, but the host answers the citation verifier's HTTP client with 403 (curl with the identical User-Agent gets 200), so the quote cannot be re-proved from this network.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 4 (Re-run as a lexicon scan of the clinic's own live pages (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the open PhilHealth list of accredited ambulatory surgical clinics (v1.2 pass 1): the query completed and returned no row, so the cell is typed not_found.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run against the PRC licence verification service and its secondary route (v1.2 pass 1): the register was re-probed and refuses every scripted query, so the cell is typed registry_closed.) |
| 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 not published; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://ziinstitute.com/ (http 403); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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