Professional Experience
• Owner of private practice Dental clinics (Raquel zita dental Clinic) in Porto , performing Implantology, Surgery and Oral Rehabilitation exclusively, including patients of other referential colleagues. Also collaborating doing advance surgeries and implantology in 0900dentist clinic in Netherlands.

• Personal case series (including the numbers within the scope of the Specialisation Course at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Oporto) (FMDUP) from November 2002 to December 2024: performed implant surgery on several patients totalizing more than 10 070 implants; 8170 tissue and bone regeneration procedures (autologus bone, heterologous bone, plasma rich in growth factors and biomembranes) and other surgical acts such as block graft (inlay and onlay), maxillary sinuses lifting and filling, apicoectomies, cysts removal, excision of soft tissue lesions, frenectomies, impacted canines and wisdom teeth extraction, lateralization/trespass and transposition of inferior alveolar nerve.

Teaching and Consultant Experience

• Between 2002 and 2004- Teaching assistant for the theoretical and clinical subject Preventive Dental Medicine (3rd and 6th grades curriculum) at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Oporto. ).

• Since 2017 invited university Professor on the Master and Specialization Course in Oral Rehabilitation at CESPU University, Portugal

. Since 2023, Faculty Prof. at Master and Specialization in Oral Surgery, Periodontology and oral Implants Rehabilitation at UCAM (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain ) in collaboration with WAGRO University, PgO in Greece

• OMD: Portuguese Dental Medicine Association
• SPEMD: Portuguese Society of Oral and Dental Medicine
• APSO: Portuguese Association of Oral Health
• SPMDEV, Portugal
• APMDH, Portugal
• SOPIO: founder member and belonging to the social organization of the Portuguese Society of implantology and Osteointegration, Portugal
• MINEC (Megagen International Network of Education) Active Member , MINEC knight and ambassador
• BBB Academy: Bone Biomaterials and Beyond- active member, Italy
• GIA (Global Implantology Academy), IEA (International Extraction Academy) -Board member (regent, scientific committee), LA, USA
• DDS (Digital Dental Society)- active member, Germany
• AAOS (American Academy of Oral Surgery), USA: ambassador and active member
. Clean Implant Foundation Ambassador

• Research article published in the Clinical Oral Implants Research (COIR) magazine, under the title: “Evaluation of implant osseointegration with different regeneration techniques in the treatment of bone defects around implants: an experimental study in a rabbit model” Isabel Guerra, Fernando Branco, Mário Vasconcelos, Américo Afonso, Helena Figueiral , Raquel Zita Gomes- Clin. Oral Impl. Res. 22, 2011; 314-322

• Research article published under the title: “Relationship between implant primary stability (torque and ISQ) and bone densitiy assessed by CBCT – clinical trial.” Raquel Zita Gomes, Laura Lopes Silva, João Coimbra, Mário Vasconcelos, André Correia, Ana Cristina Braga in the Proccedings book Biodental Engineering III – Natal Jorge et al (Eds) 2014 Taylor and Francis Group London.

• Research Clinical Study: Alveolar Ridge Reconstruction with Titanium Meshes and Simultaneous Implant Placement: A Retrospective, Multicenter Clinical Study
Raquel Zita Gomes, Andres Paraud Freixas, Chang-Hun Han, Souheil Bechara, and Isaac Tawil
BioMed Research International, Volume 2016, Article ID 5126838, 12 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5126838

• Clinical Study Implant Stability in the Posterior Maxilla: A Controlled Clinical Trial, BioMed Research International Volume 2017, Article ID 6825213, 11 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6825213 Hindawi
Raquel Zita Gomes, Mario Ramalho de Vasconcelos, Isabel Maria Lopes
Guerra, Rute Alexandra Borges de Almeida, Antonio Cabral de Campos Felino
• Palatal approach for the rehabilitation of atrophic maxilla. EDI Journal
(European Journal for Dental Implantologists), Issue 3/20 volume 16, ISSN 1862-2879, Raquel Zita Gomes, September 2020

• Research paper Acellular Mineralized Exoskeleton Shrimp (MES): A Natural Source of Bioactive Factors for Tissue Regeneration—Preliminary Results. Gomes, R.Z., Silva, R.V., Afonso, A., Fernandes, M., Vasconcel

Professional Merits /Honours/Awards

• Award for best scientific research poster in 2000 at the “Mucins in the pathophysiology of inflammatory diseases of the respiratory and digestive tracts” Symposium, under the title: “Mucins MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC and MUC6 expression in gastric carcinoma”.

• Award for best research poster in 2001 at the XII Oporto Dental Medicine Conference .

• Award for best oral research paper in the Portuguese Society of Oral and Dental Medicine Conference (SPEMD) in 2004, under the title: “New advances in guided bone regeneration by biomembranes”.

• Honourable citation for the oral paper presented at the Portuguese Society of Oral and Dental Medicine Conference (SPEMD) in 2007, under the title” Experimental Study of the MES biomembrane biocompatibility in lab rat”.

• Award for best oral research paper in the Portuguese Dental Medicine Association Conference (OMD) in 2012, under the title: ““Evaluation of implant osseointegration in the treatment of peri-implant bone defects in rabbit” Isabel Guerra, Fernando Branco, Mário Vasconcelos, Américo Afonso, Helena Figueiral, Raquel Zita Gomes

• First Prize Award for best poster on the 5th poster competition (out of 45 posters) that occurred during the 12th Megagen Annual Meeting in Moscow, 15-17 April 2016, under the title:” Three ways of predicting implant primary stability- torque, ISQ and bone density accessed by CBCT. Results of Randomized Controlled Trial”

• First Prize Award for best Scientific research poster at the 6th competition (out of 75 posters) that occurred during the 13th Megagen Annual Meeting in Tokyo, 2017, under the title: “Implant stability in the posterior maxilla RCT”

• Rectory of the University of Oporto- Best finalist student award

• Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation 98/99 and 99/00

• Prof. Machado Capelas/ Labmed 98/99, 99/00, 00/01 and 01/02

• Barbosa and Almeida Enterprise (SONAE Group) in every suniversity years

• Engº António de Almeida Foundation 2002

13, 14 February 2023, AAEDC 2023: lecture at the main stage and meeting of the Leading ladies in dentistry, Dubai

17 April 2023: lecture as Invited faculty Prof. at Postgraduation in Implantology, perio and oral surgery from PgO UCAM collaboration with WAGRO division Greece, Athens, Greece

2,3,4 June 2023 (3 full days with surgery in patients )2023 Tutor/Proctor at Dental XP Practical Program at University of Sarajevo, Bosnia

8,9,10 June 2023 AIO FDI Sardinia: Workshop about Snus lift and filling, Cagliari, Sardinia , Italy

13, 14 June 2023, IDDC 2023 (DDS with IDA ): speaker at main stage about Digital Occlusion, ISQ and CBCT software, Mumbai, India

7, 8 October 2023: keynote speaker at Sofia dental meeting , Sofia, Bulgaria

14 October 2023: keynote lecure at Trofa Saude Group Conference , Trofa, Portugal

10, 11, 12 February 2024, AEEDC 2024: lecture at the main stage at Ritter Forum, Dubai

4 April 2024 : Dental XP platform webinar for more than 500 attendees, USA

30, 31 May 2024: Mentorship program at 0900 Implant Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands

5, 6 and 7 of June 2024 : Course of Advanced Oral Surgery with practice in patients ,Mollaris Education, Leiria, Portugal

8, 9, 10 of June:2024, IDDC 2024, Keynote speaker and moderator , Mumbai , India

22 and 23 of June 2024 WOW Congress: scientific and motivational lectures in Istambul, Aydin University, Turkey

27, 28, 29 of June 2024: DDS (Digital Dentistry Show) 2024: 2 lectures and 2 workshops at the main program and also the internal meeting of the leading ladies in Dentistry in Berlin , Germany

Already 2 keynote lectures in international congresses in 2025 (IDENT and AMSPR) in Romenia and Sinus lift and filling workshop at AIO in Sardinia, Italy