Dentists

Sell Dental Gold to Dental Gold Buyers

Dentists Need Precious Metal Refiners Too!

Old Dental crowns, bridges and fillings may have some value.

You may be surprised but there is certainly a market for scrap dental work. Many people have old crowns and bridges tucked away in a box somewhere. You can assume that the metal these items had been made from has some value. After all, why else would your dentist have given them to you? But besides the metal, they have absolutely no other value at all (except possibly sentimental?). So because the cost of gold and other precious metals has risen so significantly lately, why not go ahead and sell them?
Just how much gold content is there in a dental crown?

Its impossible for a patient to know, unless their dentist has told them, what the precious metal content of their dental work is. For example, there are a number of various gold alloys utilized in dentistry, all of which have a characteristic yellow coloration. Those alloys that can be utilized to make dental crowns can have a karat value ranging anywhere from around 10 to 22. At 10 karats, a piece of metal is 40% gold. At 20 karats the gold content is 80%.

Dentists also use silver-colored alloys to make crown and bridges and some of these can have a high precious metal content. These alloys, recognized in dentistry as “precious” alloys, are composed of over 60% noble metal (gold, platinum, and/or palladium) of which at least 40% is gold. These alloys can be utilized to make “white gold” all-metal crowns or employed as the metal substructure onto which porcelain is bonded. Confusingly, on the other hand, and at the other extreme, there is certainly another class of “white” alloys utilised in dentistry that has no real precious metal content or scrap value.

So just how much gold is there within your old crown or dental bridge? Like we said, it is impossible for you to know unless, not surprisingly, your dentist told you. Our point becoming, for those who have old dental restorations you will not be in a position to ascertain their value. So send any and all you have to the refiner. Let them assay them. Items you assumed had been worthless may really have some value.
What type of cash may be involved?

To provide you with an idea about the value of scrap dental restorations, let’s take the case of a dental crown. An average full “gold” crown could possibly weigh on the order of two to 3 grams. This is on the short side of about one-tenth of an ounce. In recent history the cost of gold topped out at over $1000 per ounce. So let’s do some calculations based on these figures. A gold dental crown.

If the crown’s gold alloy is 10 karat, the precious metal value of the crown is about $30.

If the crown’s gold alloy is 22 karat, the precious metal value of the crown is about $65.