Dr. Carlos Roberto Mejía Flores

Dr. Carlos Roberto Mejía Flores is a senior plastic and aesthetic surgeon at Hospital de Diagnóstico in San Salvador, one of El Salvador's leading private medical institutions. With 16 years of surgical experience and training in Mexico and Brazil, he offers a comprehensive range of reconstructive and aesthetic procedures to Salvadoran patients and to medical tourists — particularly from the Central American region and from the Salvadoran diaspora in the United States. El Salvador has become an emerging medical tourism destination for aesthetic surgery given its qualified surgeons, modern private hospital facilities, and cost advantages relative to the United States. Dr. Mejía Flores is a member of both regional (SOPACPA) and international (ISAPS) plastic surgery societies, maintaining international standards in his practice. He is known for his meticulous surgical technique and for his thorough pre-operative consultations that ensure patients have realistic expectations.

Dr. Mejía Flores obtained his MD from the Universidad de El Salvador, the country's national university. He then trained as a specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City — Latin America's most prestigious training ground for plastic surgeons. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in Aesthetic Surgery in Brazil, refining techniques in body contouring, facial rejuvenation, and breast surgery at a high-volume aesthetic surgery centre in São Paulo. He holds certification from the Sociedad Salvadoreña de Cirugía Plástica (SOSOCIP) and maintains his professional standards through ISAPS educational programmes and attendance at the SOPACPA annual congress.

Dr. Mejía Flores performs both reconstructive and aesthetic surgical procedures. His reconstructive work includes post-traumatic scar revision, burn reconstruction, cleft lip repair, and congenital anomaly correction. In aesthetic surgery, he performs rhinoplasty, facelifts, eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty), breast augmentation and reduction, abdominoplasty, and liposuction. Post-bariatric body contouring — panniculectomy and body lift procedures following major weight loss — is an area of particular expertise. He also performs non-surgical aesthetic treatments including botulinum toxin injection and dermal fillers. All surgical procedures are performed at accredited private hospitals with full anaesthesia and monitoring support.

Dr. Mejía Flores actively serves international patients, particularly from the Salvadoran community in the United States and from other Central American countries. He consults in Spanish and English and offers video consultations for initial assessment and post-operative follow-up, which is especially practical for international patients who have returned home. His international patient process includes a pre-consultation video call, photographic assessment, personalised surgical plan, cost estimate, and coordination of hospital admission and recovery accommodation. He advises patients to plan for a minimum 10–14 day stay for most surgical procedures to allow adequate post-operative monitoring.

Dr. Mejía Flores is certified by the Sociedad Salvadoreña de Cirugía Plástica (SOSOCIP) and is a member of the Sociedad de Cirujanos Plásticos de América Central y Panamá (SOPACPA) and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). He has presented at the SOPACPA annual congress and at the Salvadoran Medical Association's annual scientific meeting. He contributes to the training of surgical residents in El Salvador and participates in humanitarian surgical campaigns providing free reconstructive procedures to patients who cannot afford private care, particularly cleft repairs and burn scar corrections.