Make Me [a] Smile, Justin Time

Hello future. You're Justin Time! Just in Time to continue delivering smiles to the world. Just in Time to help fill the void when many of us retire. What would we ever have done without you?

To recap: Justin came to America from France.* In the mid-1980s "he" announced, at the annual meeting of the Dental Laboratory Association of New York, his intention to debut what he hoped would be the industry's first CAD/CAM system. His visit created a stir: it was a vision of what our future might look like. After traveling around our country for a number of years, looking for a permanent home, Justin went back to the drawing board in Europe. In 1997, Procera, from Sweden-based Nobel Biocare, became the first usable Just-in-Time system in the U.S., just a couple of years before other "Just-in-Time technologies" arrived.
"Justin," of course, is a personification of all "automated milling and printing technologies." So again I ask: where would we be heading now if Justin hadn't arrived...