Maria Inês Correia graduated at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde do Norte, in Portugal, where she obtain her DDS degree, in 2008. From the beginning orthodontics has been her favorite area of dentistry.

In 2008 she begin her pos-graduation studies, strarting with pediatrics dentistry for better knowledge of craniofacial growth. In 2009, she did her first pos-graduation in orthodontics at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde do Norte. Later, in 2011, she applied for the oldest full-time pos-graduation program of orthdontics in Portugal, at Faculty of Dental Medicine University of Porto, which lasted three years. In 2014 she had her first contact with clear aligners and, in 2015,  flew to Madrid to do her first certification in a brand of clear aligners. Recently, in 2018, she did a funcional occlusion pos-graduation at Advance Face/Roth-Williams Center.

She was invited to teach about clear aligners at Orthodontic Service from Faculty of Dental Medicine University of Porto during 2018 and 2019, and worked as associate editor, for the second and third edition, of the clinical magazine from Sociedade Portuguesa de Ortopedia Dento-Facial.

Since the last few years she actively participates in nacional and internacional congresses and courses, as lecture or congressist.

Her  cliniacal practice is exclusive in orthodontics.