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CENTENNIAL SPECIAL ARTICLE Orthodontic material applications over the past century: Evolution of research methods to address clinical queries Theodore Eliades Zurich, Switzerland The advances in the field of materials as they relate to orthodontics can be divided into the actual evolution of materials applied to daily practice and the changes in research methods to study the performance and the bio- logic properties of the materials. Although it is evident that new materials have saturated the market during the past century, the