Christell Skin Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 65.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 14 ranked clinics · last checked 17 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Skin and aesthetic-medicine clinic in Bambalapitiya with resident and visiting consultant physicians. A visiting consultant plastic surgeon is matched in the Section 39B specialist register; the resident aesthetic-medicine physician is found only in the Section 29 medical-practitioner register. The clinic's home page states it is Sri Lanka's leading destination for skin, hair, beauty and wellness.
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 | 4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 2,682 |
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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.
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. SLMC Section 39B specialist register, reg_no 11920: BENERAGAMA THUSHAN SUSHIRA — 'SPECIALIST IN PLASTIC SURGERY'. Cited for the visiting consultant plastic surgeon named on the clinic's own site. [slmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Both doctors named with role and tied to the Bambalapitiya address; the plastic surgeon is a visiting rather than resident consultant. [site] |
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). Same reg_no 11920 also returned by the Section 29 medical-practitioner query. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [slmc] |
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, 17 September 2026 — 0 matching rows (Whole PHSRC Registered Institutes table (374 rows, 11 sections) re-fetched and parsed on 2026-09-17 and searched for the clinic name, its brand tokens, its legal entity and the named physicians; no matching row. The register exists but returns no record for this clinic — absence is not evidence that) Register queried, no record found. Whole PHSRC Registered Institutes table (374 rows, 11 sections) re-fetched and parsed on 2026-09-17 and searched for the clinic name, its brand tokens, its legal entity and the named physicians; no matching row. The register exists but returns no record for this clinic — absence is not evidence that it is unregistered. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-17 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. eROC company search: 'CHRISTELL SKIN CLINIC', PV98705. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.christellskin.com/ — matched by name] [eroc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or company registration numbers published on the site. [site] |
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. 'No.1' superlative without a naming issuer, used on the home page. [site] Sri Lanka's No.1 destination for skin, hair, beauty & wellness. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 | 2026-09-17 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Pages loaded on 2026-09-17: home, dermatology consultation, terms and conditions, refund and cancellation policy, contact. The terms are generic website terms and the refund page is an appointment cancellation-fee policy; none of the five document classes (informed consent, risks or contraindications, aftercare, revision policy, complaint route) is published. [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] |
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. Thushan Beneragama [site] [slmc] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon (visiting) | 11920 |
| Dr. Shanika Arsecularatne [site] | Specialist in Aesthetic & Anti-aging Medicine (resident) | not published |
Legal entity: Christell Skin Clinic (Pvt) Ltd. · PV98705 [eroc]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
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.christellskin.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +94 11 233 3944 |
| Address | 47/1, Galle Road, Bambalapitiya, Colombo 04, Sri Lanka |
| City | Colombo |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.christellskin.com/our-specialists/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, address, phone, treatment menu | 31 August 2026 |
| slmc | https://renewal.slmc.gov.lk/practitioner/getData?category=SEC39BMP&… | official register | specialist certification and medical licence — GET category=SEC39BMP®_no=11920 and category=SEC29®_no=11920 | 31 August 2026 |
| eroc | https://erocapiv2.drc.gov.lk/api/v1/eroc/name/search | official register | legal entity — POST {criteria:1, searchtext:"CHRISTELL"} returned {"name":"CHRISTELL SKIN CLINIC","registration_no":"PV98705"} | 31 August 2026 |
| phsrc | https://phsrc.lk/pages_e.php?id=12 | official register | facility registration — GET https://phsrc.lk/pages_e.php?id=12, whole 374-row Registered Institutes table parsed locally on 2026-09-17 | 17 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) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.christellskin.com/ — matched by name) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): a register miss is never a value — M4 = 3 was written for "register exists, no record found"; re-typed not_found with the logged query) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 1 (Re-run the patient-document presence scan on the clinic site (v1.1 pass 1)) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → 3 (Re-run against the PHSRC Registered Institutes register (v1.1 pass 1)) |
| 31 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.