Centro Frontera Vaca
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 66.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #3 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-physician plastic, reconstructive and dermatological surgery centre in the Nueva Córdoba neighbourhood of Córdoba. Responsible surgeon named with role, a self-published licence number and address; found in both the SACPER and the provincial plastic-surgery society member directories as a titular member. The operating facility is matched by name and address in the national facility register. The state specialist and licence registers are form-gated and could not be queried.
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: sacper, 30 August 2026 — secondary source names the physician (former M1 = 2); shown on the profile as a fact — M1 is not scored while the country's specialist register is closed |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Licence claimed without a number. Clinic publishes M.P. 21.591/8 and M.E. 8724 for the responsible physician; the state licence register (REFEPS) is form-gated and could not be queried to match the number. [v1.3 2026-09-22: number not found on the clinic pages → claimed without a number] [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. REFES facility register: name and address match exactly (Centro de Cirugía Plástica Frontera Vaca, Santiago Temple 45, Córdoba capital). [refes] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Brand only: the clinic names no legal entity — no company name with a legal form (S.A. / S.R.L. / S.A.S.) and no CUIT — on any page loaded on 2026-09-18: the home page, /dr-julio-frontera-vaca/, /centro-frontera-vaca-el-centro/, /contacto/ and /especialistas/. [site] [site-dr-julio] [site-el-centro] [site-contacto] [site-especialistas] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Responsible physician's own licence numbers (M.P./M.E.) published; no facility or legal-entity numbers published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Systematic soft superlatives across the home page (excellence and 'reference space' claims); no outcome guarantee or '100%'-class language found. [site] consolidándose como un espacio de referencia en cirugía plástica en Córdoba |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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 Two or three. FAQ section discusses general procedure safety and publishes per-procedure recovery-timeline guidance; no dedicated informed-consent document, revision policy or complaint route found. [site] |
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] |
| 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. Julio César Frontera Vaca [site] [sacper] [cirplastcba] | Cirujano plástico, médico responsable | M.P. 21.591/8, M.E. 8724 (self-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 SECSACPER buscador and the Sociedad de Cirugía Plástica de Córdoba member list both show Miembro Titular, Especialista en Cirugía Estética y Reparadora. Both are professional associations, not state registers; the state specialist register (REFEPS) is form-gated and could not be queried.[sacper] [cirplastcba]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — 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://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +54 351 469-0131 |
| Address | Santiago Temple 45, B° Nueva Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina |
| City | Córdoba |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/ | clinic's own site | physician, licence numbers, address, phone, menu, FAQ, marketing text | 30 August 2026 |
| sacper | https://www.sacper.org.ar/miembros/user/347 | secondary | SACPER membership category and specialty declaration | 30 August 2026 |
| cirplastcba | https://www.cirugiaplasticacba.com.ar/nuestros-miembros/ | secondary | Sociedad de Cirugía Plástica de Córdoba member list: 'FRONTERA VACA, JULIO CÉSAR — MIEMBRO TITULAR' | 30 August 2026 |
| refes | https://datos.salud.gob.ar/dataset/336cf4d9-447a-44c4-8e34-0ba1fc29… | official register | REFES bulk export (Ministerio de Salud), row establecimiento_id=50140142331427 'CENTRO DE CIRUGIA PLASTICA FRONTERA VACA', Santiago Temple 45, Córdoba capital (local search of the downloaded CSV) | 30 August 2026 |
| site-dr-julio | https://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/dr-julio-frontera-vaca/ | clinic's own site | responsible physician and licence numbers | 18 September 2026 |
| site-el-centro | https://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/centro-frontera-vaca-el-centro/ | clinic's own site | clinic profile | 18 September 2026 |
| site-contacto | https://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/contacto/ | clinic's own site | contact details | 18 September 2026 |
| site-especialistas | https://centrofronteravaca.com.ar/especialistas/ | clinic's own site | staff physicians and licence numbers | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 3 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 6 — the licence number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); licence claimed without a number) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run from the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 pass 1): the M5 ladder is scored on what the clinic itself publishes; no legal entity is named, so the cell is brand only) |
| 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[]) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.