Orlando Monteiro da Silva

Paulo Romão, recognized as one of the best Portuguese designers, boasts a resume and portfolio that speak for themselves.

He is the creative mind behind the logo and image of the Portuguese Association of Liberal Professionals.

He’s taken on a new project that I find extremely interesting and wanted to share with my friends and contacts around the world: The Bird Houses.

All Bird Houses are handmade and unique pieces built to order, taking the best out of the natural beauty of the materials. These are made from different types of wood, Burel (traditional portuguese wool textile), steel and high temperature glazed ceramic.

The unique combination of carefully chosen materials is what makes it an exclusive piece of design. There aren’t two pieces of wood the same. Therefore, there will never be two identical Bird Houses.

I invite you to check out this unique artistic concept on The Bird Houses.

We need collective networks of providers and organizations that collaborate in coopetition to help design the salary and working conditions of dentists in Portugal.

I will start some reflection on the three concepts that give the title to this chronicle, identifying the concrete example of tourism in dentistry. It is a topic of the greatest relevance, multifaceted and with variants that I will address here in a sectoral way, although it may be deepened in a future publication.

First of all, let’s remember the basics, in the current organizational context of Portuguese dentistry, consisting of about 98% of operators working exclusively in the private sector: the fact that it is made available essentially through private sector financing, in direct out-of-pocket payments, including ADSE, including public and private insurances, health plans and conventions, stimulating competition to the detriment of a more virtuous combination with other approaches that would present numerous advantages in a reality of fragmentation of thousands of clinics and dental offices.

You can read the full article, in Portuguese or English, in the Portuguese monthly edition of Dentistry magazine:

Open the English version of the article (pdf).

Open the Portuguese version of the article (pdf).