Francisco Teixeira Barbosa

Francisco Teixeira Barbosa, smiling.

Dentist · Corporate MBA, ESADE Executive Director, Foundation for Oral Rehabilitation

Education strategy that reaches the patient.

I research what clinicians need, set the strategy and build education programmes that scale, from study clubs and university teaching to digital learning. Better-trained clinicians treat patients better.

Dentist since 2004 Basel, Switzerland Taught in 20 countries

See the work How I build a programme

From a first implant to a study club talk.

How I build education that scales.

The same four steps, whether the programme is one lecture, a study club series or an international curriculum.

  1. 01

    Research the need

    I start with the learners and the evidence: what clinicians do today, where they get stuck, which gaps reach the patient, and what the literature supports.

    Who I teach

  2. 02

    Set the strategy

    I decide which programmes to build, for whom, and in which format: live, blended or digital. Then I plan the faculty, the partners and how we will measure success.

    Where I have taught

  3. 03

    Design, implement and follow up

    I break the strategy into initiatives, design each one with its faculty and materials, and run it. Then I measure the outcomes and the impact, follow up with the learners, and start the next round with what we learned.

    See the work

  4. 04

    Measure, then scale

    I measure outcomes, such as knowledge and skills, and impact, such as what changes in practice and for patients. What works, I scale to more countries, partners and formats. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.

    See the ebooks

Where I have led education.

A foundation, two implant companies and my own education platform.

  1. 2025 to now

    Foundation for Oral Rehabilitation Executive Director

    I run the foundation office and work with its councils on education, science, emerging leaders and humanitarian work. I led the launch of FOR Türkiye, the first regional chapter (Board approval, January 2026), and set up the framework of the Humanitarian Council. More regional chapters are in preparation.

  2. 2018 to 2024

    Straumann Group DSO education, Spain and Basel

    I built clinical training for dental service organisations, from a first clinic pilot in Spain to a global role. I organised the first Global DSO Medical Directors Meeting in 2019, and from 2022 to 2024 I was Director, Global DSO Academy & Education.

  3. 2015 to now

    Periospot Co-founder and editor

    A blog, a newsletter, interactive ebooks, 3D atlases and a course on making presentations, carousels and videos with AI. I write the material and build the tools.

  4. 2013 to 2017

    Phibo Clinical innovation and education

    I advised the innovation team on implants and abutments, tested digital workflows with 3Shape TRIOS and lectured for Phibo in Europe and Latin America. From 2016 I was its content manager.

Tested before I taught it

  1. 20123Shape TRIOS intraoral scanners from the first generation, and implant scanning with TRIOS from 2013
  2. 2015TRIOS 3 software, as a 3Shape beta tester
  3. 2017Straumann Smile in a Box: pre-launch market test and first cases, with Createch Medical
  4. 2019The Straumann BLX implant with guided surgery, before its European launch
  5. 2024Smilecloud 3DNA AI smile design, as a beta tester

Selected work.

I made or led everything here, often with AI tools and co-authors, and always with the paper open next to me.

From extraction to regeneration

A 30-second teaching film in six numbered steps: the socket after extraction; the thin facial wall resorbing and the ridge collapsing; an implant placed with its facial threads outside the bone; the bone graft and then the membrane over them; the gum closed on top; and six months later, new bone around the implant.

I made it with an AI workflow: one keyframe per clinical step made with Gemini, motion made with Kling, and a frame-by-frame review of the anatomy. A frame that put the layers in the wrong order was rejected and made again.

The 2026 interactive Guided Bone Regeneration ebook cover: a flat illustration of an implant, graft and membrane.
Cover of the free 2016 ebook Guided Bone Regeneration for Dummies.
2016 ebook 2026

Bone regeneration, then and now

My free ebook Guided Bone Regeneration for Dummies, written with Francisco Carroquino, had more than 11,000 download sign-ups between 2016 and 2019. In 2026 I turned our co-authored Guided Bone Regeneration iBook (2019) into an interactive course: 13 chapters, surgical videos, knowledge checks and completion tracking.

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Anatomy you can take apart

A 3D atlas of the head, neck and mouth with 555 structures you can select one at a time, and a second atlas of jaw bone density by region, with cross sections and twelve published sources. Both run in the browser, with no sign-in.

Open the atlas

3D geometry: BodyParts3D (CC BY 4.0) and Z-Anatomy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Three connective tissue grafts from three palatal donor sites, side by side on white.
3,402 likes · reached 53,476 accounts
Six extraction socket specimens showing healing from clot to mature bone.
1,541 likes · reached 26,444 accounts
Bone graft particles in a ridge defect with blood vessels growing in from the bone walls.
623 likes · @periospot

Teaching images people share

Each carousel starts from one paper and ends with one picture a clinician remembers: donor-site grafts, socket healing after Cardaropoli 2003, the blood supply of a graft.

Immediate Implants interactive ebook cover. Immediate Loading interactive ebook cover. Guided Bone Regeneration interactive ebook cover.

Interactive ebooks

Immediate implants (15 chapters), immediate loading (14) and bone regeneration (13). Surgical videos, animations, chapter quizzes, saved progress and a certificate of completion.

Open on Periospot
A lecture slide: a graft is not the builder, it is the construction site. Blood brings cells, oxygen, signals and immune control.

Slides for other educators

Ready-to-teach slide sets with the reference on every slide, for colleagues who give lectures.

The Dental Content Machine course banner.

The Dental Content Machine

A self-paced course on making presentations, carousels and videos with AI.

A carousel slide on peri-implant mucosa, titled Oral epithelium takes the first hit, with labels for the keratinized oral epithelium, the lamina propria and the implant collar.

Tools I built

Carousel Studio and Video Studio on Periospot Labs. I built them with AI coding agents, and I use them to make my own teaching content.

This carousel on the peri-implant mucosa: 1,686 likes on Instagram (June 2026).

GitHub
Dental Vision Benchmark, 2026: share of 90 dental images each AI model read correctly
  1. Gemini 3.1 Pro72.2%
  2. Claude Opus 4.863.3%
  3. Qwen3.7 Plus61.1%
  4. GPT-5.555.6%
  5. GLM-4.6V34.4%
  6. Llama 4 Maverick27.8%

Top model: 65 of 90 images. Rubrics written by a clinician; answers scored by two independent AI judges.

Testing AI before I teach with it

Before I use an AI model in teaching, I test it. With co-authors, I publish open benchmarks of how language and vision models answer dental questions and read dental images, with the methods and the misses.

Vision benchmark Language benchmark

Where I have taught.

Congresses, universities, study clubs, dental colleges and courses since 2013. Each entry comes from my own posts, slides and correspondence.

Talks and courses listed
122
Countries
20
Teaching since
2013
YearWherePlaceRole
2026Intelligent Dentistry, 2nd Congress on AI in DentistryParedes, PortugalSpeaker
2025University of Geneva, course on AI and coding for dentistryGeneva, SwitzerlandSpeaker
2024SEPA congress, Straumann corporate forum: AI in dentistryBilbao, SpainSpeaker
2022ITI Iberia Study ClubBarcelona, SpainSpeaker
2020ITI Iberia, SEPA and Straumann symposium, SEPA'20OnlineSpeaker
2019Turkish Dental Association International Dental CongressIstanbul, TürkiyeInvited speaker
2018Pikos SymposiumOrlando, USASpeaker
2018EAO Congress, Osstell Scientific SymposiumVienna, AustriaSpeaker
2017ITI Study Club LvivLviv, UkraineSpeaker
2017Jornadas Odontológicas de la AraucaníaTemuco, ChileInvited speaker
2016Aspetar Oral Injuries CongressDoha, QatarSpeaker
2016OMD Congress, Portuguese Dental AssociationPorto, PortugalSpeaker
2015AMIB Congress, Mexican implantology societyMexicoSpeaker
20138th International Congress of Digital Dentistry and CAD/CAMDubai, UAESpeaker
OngoingUEMC postgraduate programmes (listed faculty); ESI and ESIRO Barcelona (2016 to 2021); University of Valencia (2017, 2020); Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2021, 2022)Spain and PortugalFaculty and invited lecturer

Published work.

Two peer-reviewed papers, a congress abstract and two trade-magazine articles. ORCID 0009-0001-1665-3749.

  1. 2025 · Computational Biology and Chemistry · peer-reviewed

    Kolmogorov-Arnold networks for predicting drug-gene associations of HDAC1 inhibitors in periodontitis

    Yadalam PK, Ayyachamy S, Barbosa FT, Natarajan PM. DOI

  2. 2024 · Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry · peer-reviewed

    Graph Neural Networks-Based Prediction of Drug Gene Interactions of RTK-VEGF4 Receptor Family in Periodontal Regeneration

    Yadalam PK, Barbosa FT, Natarajan PM, Ardila CM. DOI

  3. 2019 · Maxillaris, trade magazine

    El bundle bone, el gap y los implantes inmediatos

    Teixeira Barbosa FJ.

  4. 2017 · Maxillaris, trade magazine

    Implantes inmediatos: Socket Shield Tecnhique (title as printed)

    Díaz-Daza A, Mascaró Pons M, San Martín Galindo L, Teixeira Barbosa F.

    I treated the patient in this case. The student first author won the 2017 Maxillaris-UEMC prize for the best student article with it.

  5. 2015 · EuroPerio8 e-poster P1067 · abstract in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology

    A novel approach for a volumetric variation assessment after immediate implants using Socket Shield Technique. A report of a serie of cases (title as printed)

    Teixeira Barbosa F, Carmona D, Fal V, Alsina F, Gluckman H, Salama MA. J Clin Periodontol. 2015;42(Suppl 17):391.

Where people follow the work.

About 148,000 followers across ten accounts, read between 10 June and 23 September 2026. People who follow two accounts are counted twice, so this is reach, not unique people.

148,276 Followers across ten accounts Plus 13,136 newsletter subscribers
Followers by account, largest first
  1. @periospot 30.6K
  2. @tuminha_dds 29.5K
  3. Periospot 25.2K
  4. Implantology Workgroup 24.7K
  5. LinkedIn 14.5K
  6. @Cisco_research 11.6K
  7. YouTube 7.8K
  8. @PerioSpot 2.3K
  9. @periospot 1.5K
  10. Personal page 718

About me.

Portrait of Francisco Teixeira Barbosa.

I am a dentist based in Basel. I qualified at Alfonso X el Sabio University in Madrid in 2004, did my postgraduate training in implantology in Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona, and later a Corporate MBA at ESADE.

I have worked on both sides of dental education, in clinics and universities and in industry. At the Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC) I am on the faculty of postgraduate programmes and collaborate with its DENS-iA research group. In Portugal I have taught in the postgraduate programme in digital dentistry at CESPU.

I teach in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Father of five.

Countries where I have taught
20
Sign-ups for my bone regeneration ebook, 2016 to 2019
11,000+
Followers across ten accounts, Sept 2026
148,000+
YouTube views
786,000+

Questions people ask me.

How do you decide which programmes to build?

I start from the gap between what the evidence supports and what clinicians do in practice. Then I weigh how many patients it affects, the cost, and who can teach it well, and I choose the format that fits the learner: live, blended or digital.

Do you still treat patients?

Less than before. Most of my clinical time today goes to teaching and to humanitarian treatment for patients in need.

Do you use AI to make your teaching material?

Yes, for drafts, images and video. I choose the topic, check every claim against the literature, and approve every slide before it goes out. The tools save hours. They do not make the clinical decisions.

Which languages do you teach in?

Portuguese, Spanish and English. I also speak Galician and Catalan.

Do you help other educators with their lectures?

Yes. I sell ready-to-teach slide sets for lecturers, and I help opinion leaders turn their own cases and papers into slides, illustrations and short videos.

Can I use your illustrations in my own talks?

Some are available as ready-made slide sets on Periospot. For anything else, write to me.

Where can I see you teach next?

I post talks and courses on Instagram at @tuminha_dds.