Body Essentials Surgical Skin Center
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 55.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 13 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Dermatology and cosmetic skin practice with rooms in Kingston and Mandeville, offering chemical peels, botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, thread lifts, microneedling, body contouring and office-based skin surgery. The responsible physician is named with her qualifications on the clinic’s own about page and matched by name in the Medical Council of Jamaica’s public register.
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.
| 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.
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. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-19 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Physician named with role and qualifications on the clinic’s own about page, tied to the two practice addresses published in the site-wide footer. [site-about] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Medical Council of Jamaica register: Allison Young-Chin, registered 2024, parish Manchester (record 6036); the clinic publishes the name as Allison Young and, in its payment and testimonial blocks, as Young-Chin. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit short_number) — matched by name] [mcj] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 19 September 2026 — No match in either edition of the list of institutional health facilities registered under the Nursing Homes Registration Act; an office-based practice is not covered by this register. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-19 |
| 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. Scan of the home, about, cosmetic-services, privacy-policy and terms-of-service pages found no legal entity named; the footer copyright line carries the brand only. [site] [site-terms] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Physician qualifications published (Dermatologist, CWS, MD; US medical programme, postgraduate training in cosmetic dermatology, diploma in wound care); no licence, facility or company registration numbers published. [site-about] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-19 | |
| 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. Superlatives recur in the clinic’s own copy on the home and cosmetic-services pages; no outcome guarantee and no absolute safety or success statement found on the pages scanned. [site] [site-cosmetic] Jamaica's premier destination for Cosmetic Medical and Surgical Procedures. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 19 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-19 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Pages loaded: home, About, Cosmetic Services, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. None of the five classes published — the privacy policy and terms cover website use, payments and refunds only; no informed-consent document, risk disclosure, aftercare instructions, revision policy or complaint route. [site-terms] [site-privacy] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-19 |
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-about] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-cosmetic] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-about] [site-cosmetic] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-about] [mcj] |
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. Allison Young [site-about] [mcj] | Dermatologist | 6036 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-cosmetic]
What we could not verify
- 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://www.bodyessentialsja.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 876-755-5555 |
| Address | 40 Shortwood Road, Unit 2B, Shortwood Professional Business Centre, Kingston, St Andrew, Jamaica |
| City | Kingston |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.bodyessentialsja.com/ | clinic's own site | practice name, service list, addresses, phone | 19 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.bodyessentialsja.com/about-1 | clinic's own site | physician name, qualifications and training, practice history | 19 September 2026 |
| site-cosmetic | https://www.bodyessentialsja.com/cosmeticskincare | clinic's own site | cosmetic service menu | 19 September 2026 |
| site-privacy | https://www.bodyessentialsja.com/privacy-policy | clinic's own site | website privacy policy and medical disclaimer | 19 September 2026 |
| site-terms | https://www.bodyessentialsja.com/termsofservice | clinic's own site | terms of service, payments and refunds | 19 September 2026 |
| mcj | https://medicalcouncilja.com/find-a-doctor/?jsf=jet-data-table&meta… | official register | GET https://medicalcouncilja.com/find-a-doctor/?jsf=jet-data-table&meta=last_name|search:Young-Chin — medical licence register match, data-item-object 6036 (Allison Young-Chin, 2024, Manchester) | 19 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 short_number) — matched by name) |
| 19 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.2 pass 2). |
Correction or right of reply
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