The Cosmetic Surgery Institute
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 68.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
68.8/100
coverage 94% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Dedicated cosmetic and reconstructive plastic-surgery clinic on Bree Street, Cape Town. The responsible surgeon is named with role and matched in the national specialist 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, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Matched by registration number in HPCSA iRegister: ACTIVE, category contains SPECIALIST and PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, matching the advertised segment. [hpcsa-fernandes] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by licence number: ACTIVE "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" row in the same register. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [hpcsa-fernandes] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| 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. CIPC Enterprise Search is login-gated (map closedAttempt) and its hosts do not answer this network; no secondary company route exists for South Africa, so the cell is scored on what the clinic itself publishes. No legal entity with a legal form and no company registration number is published on the pages loaded on 2026-09-20: https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/, https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/institute/, https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/contact-us/, https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/terms-conditions/, https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/privacy-policy/. [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or legal-entity registration numbers published on the site. [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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. Lexicon scan on 2026-09-20 over home, institute, facilities, day-clinic, the-team, your-questions-answered, breast-augmentation, contact-us, terms and privacy: no outcome or safety guarantee in the clinic’s own text; a repeated set of superlatives about the facility and the team, none of them attributed to an issuer. [site-institute] [site-faq] World-class care, in a luxurious environment is what sets the Cosmetic Surgery Institute apart. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Risks/complications and aftercare/recovery guidance published on a patient-FAQ page; no informed-consent process, revision policy or complaints route found. [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
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] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] |
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 Des Fernandes (Desmond Brian Fernandes) [hpcsa-fernandes] [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome] | Specialist Plastic Surgeon and Reconstructive Surgeon | MP 0112992 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [site-contact] [site-rhinoplasty] [site-breast] [site-lipo] [site-botox] [site-faq] [site-welcome]
What we could not verify
- 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://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +27 21 424 2251 |
| Address | 183 Bree Street, 1st Floor, Cape Town, 8001 |
| City | Cape Town |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/the-team/dr-des-fernandes/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role | 31 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/ | clinic's own site | address, phone | 31 August 2026 |
| site-rhinoplasty | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/cosmetic/rhinoplasty/ | clinic's own site | rhinoplasty menu item | 31 August 2026 |
| site-breast | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/cosmetic/breast-augmentation/ | clinic's own site | breast surgery menu items | 31 August 2026 |
| site-lipo | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/cosmetic/liposuction/ | clinic's own site | liposuction menu item | 31 August 2026 |
| site-botox | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/cosmetic/botox/ | clinic's own site | injectables menu item | 31 August 2026 |
| site-faq | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/your-questions-answered/ | clinic's own site | risk disclosure, aftercare guidance | 31 August 2026 |
| site-welcome | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/welcome-to-the-cosmetic-surgery-inst… | clinic's own site | marketing copy | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-fernandes | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/i_reg_form | official register | HPCSA iRegister: POST .../getDataFromRnow regNumber=MP0112992 w_id=27 — Dr Des Fernandes (Desmond Brian Fernandes), matched ACTIVE rows "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE SPECIALIST ... PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY" and "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-sanc-fernandes | https://www.hpcsa.co.za/api/website/find-all-document | official register | HPCSA published Guilty Verdicts 2025/2026 (category Judgements) checked for registration number MP0112992 — no match; cross-read against iRegister Status = ACTIVE (no ERASED/SUSPENDED/TERMINATED row) | 31 August 2026 |
| cohsasa | https://cohsasa.co.za/accredited-facilities/ | secondary | COHSASA accredited-facilities list (46 South-Africa-and-region facilities) checked — this operating location not present (voluntary accreditation register; absence not penalised) | 31 August 2026 |
| aprassa | https://aprassa.co.za/search-result.php?provincesearch=9&town=1&typ… | secondary | APRASSA (Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of Southern Africa) area search, Cape Town — practitioner listed as a member with practice address (association signal only, not used for M1 provenance) | 31 August 2026 |
| site-institute | https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/institute/ | clinic's own site | institute page: the clinic’s own description of its facility | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run of the retry cell with a quote re-taken from the live page (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run of the v1.0 retry cell against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 1): the site names no legal entity, company register closed.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): facility_registry class removed (voluntary accreditation is not a register): axis not applicable) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://cosmetic-surgery.co.za/welcome-to-the-cosmetic-surgery-institute/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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