Two years of school, a licence, and a job the public still thinks is "cleaning teeth." This is the tote that finally treats it like what it is. GUARDIANS OF THE GUMLINE arches over an engraved heraldic shield, a single tooth held as the charge, cradled in a laurel wreath, with an unfurled ribbon below stating the rule of the order: SCALE · POLISH · PROTECT. No joke anywhere; a coat of arms, drawn properly.
Long shoulder handles and a roomy interior: the everyday carry for lunch and a water bottle to the practice, textbooks and loupes through hygiene school, the groceries, or the weekend market.
The one a family gives a new RDH at graduation, and the one she keeps: no year, no cohort, nothing to date it.
