title: Orthodontics in 3 millennia. Chapter 10: midcentury retrospect.
abstract: Late in orthodontics' second millennium, we paused to retrace the path that brought us to be practitioners of "the latest and the best" as Angle might have put it. What we thought was state of the art proved to be only a stepping stone along that path. The best was yet to come.
authors.affiliation: normwahl@olypen.com
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wahl
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry / Q000266:history; D003816:Dentists, Women / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D008445:Maxillofacial Development; D017289:Orthodontic Appliances, Functional / Q000266:history; D009970:Orthodontics / Q000266:history*