diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/renderNav.tsx b/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/renderNav.tsx
index 0e7231d90cbb77..ce54e9ceee61d5 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/renderNav.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/renderNav.tsx
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 /** @jsx createElement */
 
 import { createElement } from '@fluentui/react-jsx-runtime';
-import { getSlotsNext } from '@fluentui/react-utilities';
+import { assertSlots } from '@fluentui/react-utilities';
 import type { NavState, NavSlots } from './Nav.types';
 
 /**
  * Render the final JSX of Nav
  */
 export const renderNav_unstable = (state: NavState) => {
-  const { slots, slotProps } = getSlotsNext<NavSlots>(state);
+  assertSlots<NavSlots>(state);
 
   // TODO Add additional slots in the appropriate place
-  return <slots.root {...slotProps.root} />;
+  return <state.root />;
 };
diff --git a/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/useNav.ts b/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/useNav.ts
index 3d2015de51f068..ef2eb8bd50afa9 100644
--- a/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/useNav.ts
+++ b/packages/react-components/react-nav-preview/src/components/Nav/useNav.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { getNativeElementProps } from '@fluentui/react-utilities';
+import { getNativeElementProps, slot } from '@fluentui/react-utilities';
 import type { NavProps, NavState } from './Nav.types';
 
 /**
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ export const useNav_unstable = (props: NavProps, ref: React.Ref<HTMLElement>): N
     },
     // TODO add appropriate slots, for example:
     // mySlot: resolveShorthand(props.mySlot),
-    root: getNativeElementProps('div', {
-      ref,
-      ...props,
-    }),
+    root: slot.always(
+      getNativeElementProps('div', {
+        ref,
+        ...props,
+      }),
+      { elementType: 'div' },
+    ),
   };
 };