DMD (Porto Dental Medicine Faculty) 1981
Diplome Universitaire d’Implantologie et Réhabilitation Orale (Bordeaux University) 1990
Membre d´honneur (Honorary member) –Société Française de biomatériaux et systemes implantables
Diplome d’honneur (Honorary member owing to his contibution to oral implantology)- Société Belge de Chirurgie et d’Implantologie Orale (Belgian Society of Surgery and Oral Implantology)
Fellow da Pierre Fauchard Academy Member of the International College of Dentists
Founder of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estética Dentária (Portuguese Society of Dental Esthetics)
Founder of the Associação Portuguesa de Implantologia e de Biomateriais (Portuguese Assotiation of Implantology and Biomaterials)
Belongs to Scientific Commitees of the Journal of the American Dental Association (Portuguese Edition) , DentalPro, Dentistry (portuguese edition) and Revista DentalPress de Estética (magazine of the Brazilian Society of Esthetic Odontology)