Dr. Marilia Sly is an Associate Professor at the UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry (UTSD), Restorative Dentistry & Prosthodontics Department. She directs the Laboratorial Biomaterials and the Indirect Single Unit preclinical courses. Dr. Sly earned her DDS in 1995 and a Master of Science in Dental Biomaterials from Indiana University in 2006. She has been a UTHealth fellow in Health Educations since 2019. She has received the Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching and Application from UTSD and has been invited for local, state, national, and international presentations. Dr. Sly is a member of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society, Mu Mu Chapter. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring new places and entertaining friends at home with her family.