Clínica Dr. Biguria
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 29.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 17 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-surgeon aesthetic and reconstructive plastic-surgery practice in zona 10 of Guatemala City. The responsible surgeon is named on the site as Dr. Biguria and is listed, under his full name, in the national plastic-surgery association roster, in the FILACP Guatemala chapter list and in the ISAPS Guatemala member list, where he is recorded as ISAPS National Secretary for Guatemala.
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 | 3.8 out of 5 · reviews: 16 |
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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 2 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 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: acpg, 17 September 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 | 2026-09-17 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Surname or initials without a full name; or the name is available to a patient only in the official register, not on the clinic's own surface. The clinic site names the responsible physician only as "Dr. Biguria" - surname without a given name - on every page loaded (/, /dr-biguria/, /procedimientos/, /contactanos/). The full name Rafael Biguria Rodriguez comes from the association sources, not from the clinic. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-17 | |
| 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: acpg, 17 September 2026 — Colegio de Medicos y Cirujanos portal probed unauthenticated on 2026-09-17 (POST /collegiate_portal/collegiate/do-get-list -> {"success":false,"error":"SESSION_EXPIRED"}); secondary route "acpg" then run and returns the member entry with phone and e-mail but no colegiado number and no licence status. The clinic pages publish no number either. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-17 |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-17 |
| 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 on the pages loaded on 2026-09-17 (/, /dr-biguria/, /procedimientos/, /contactanos/) - no razon social, no S.A., no NIT; the footer reads "2017 All Rights Reserve Dr. Biguria". The Guatemalan company registers were run first and are closed (the SAT RTU bearer is minted only behind a reCAPTCHA; the Registro Mercantil E-Consulta at econsultas.registromercantil.gob.gt serves the Apache2 default page and /ServicioTramite is 404; its e-portal is login + CAPTCHA; OpenCorporates answers 403 on the web and 401 on the API), so no entity could be looked up either. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No registration, colegiado, society or facility number is published on any page loaded (/, /dr-biguria/, /procedimientos/, /contactanos/). [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Lexicon scan of /, /dr-biguria/, /procedimientos/ and /contactanos/ on 2026-09-17: one soft superlative, about the recency of the techniques. No guarantee, no 100 %-class statement and no best-in-country claim; the rest of the copy is biographical. [site-dr] combina los procedimientos más recientes con una amplia experiencia |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-17 | |
| 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 | 2026-09-17 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. None of the five document classes (consent, risk disclosure, aftercare instructions, revision policy, complaint route) is published on the pages loaded on 2026-09-17 (/, /dr-biguria/, /procedimientos/, /contactanos/). [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 |
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] [acpg] [isaps] |
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. Rafael Biguria [site] [acpg] [isaps] [filacp] | Plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon | not 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 SECAssociation provenance only, capped at 2 by the registry-map m1Rule: Guatemala has no state specialty register that can be read from outside. The physician is an active member of the Asociacion de Cirujanos Plasticos de Guatemala, is listed in the FILACP Guatemala (ACPERG) chapter list as RAFAEL BIGURIA RODRIGUEZ, and appears in the ISAPS Guatemala member list as ISAPS National Secretary (Guatemala). The ACPG line for him reads "Medico y Cirujano" rather than a plastic-surgery specialty phrase, so the specialty is supported by the two plastic-surgery society listings rather than by the roster line.[acpg] [isaps] [filacp]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — 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://www.doctorbiguria.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +502 2316-5846 |
| Address | 2 Calle 6-24 Zona 10, Edificio Renovati, Nivel 13, Oficina 1302, Guatemala City |
| City | Guatemala City |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.doctorbiguria.com/ | clinic's own site | clinic name, responsible physician, phone, e-mail, procedure menu | 17 September 2026 |
| site-dr | https://www.doctorbiguria.com/dr-biguria/ | clinic's own site | physician page: training, scope of practice, M7 quote | 17 September 2026 |
| site-contacto | https://www.doctorbiguria.com/contactanos/ | clinic's own site | practice address in Edificio Renovati and telephone | 17 September 2026 |
| acpg | https://cirujanosplasticosdeguatemala.com/miembros-activos/ | secondary | association directory listing: Dr. Rafael Biguria R., phone, e-mail | 17 September 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4834 | secondary | ISAPS Guatemala member list: Dr. Rafael Biguria, ISAPS National Secretary (Guatemala), clinic, phone, website, address | 17 September 2026 |
| filacp | https://www.filacp.org/web26/miembros-guatemala/ | secondary | FILACP Guatemala (ACPERG) chapter list: RAFAEL BIGURIA RODRIGUEZ | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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[]) |
| 17 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.1 pass 1). |
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.