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 and Workshops. 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”. Honorable 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, Mario Vasconcelos, Americo Afonso, Helena Figueiral, Raquel Zita Gomes. First Prize in the Award for best poster on the 5th poster competition that occurred during the 12th Megagen Annual Meeting in Moscow, 15-17 April 2016, under the tittle : “”Three ways of predicting implant primary stability- torque, ISQ and bone density accessed by CBCT. Results of Randomized Controlled Trial”