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Morbid question?? Gold teeth.
tccox
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I have a lot of gold in my mouth. Bridges and crowns etc. I understand that a thousnd bucks the dentist charges to put them in is no where near the cost of the gold. Anyway, would it be out of line to ask the funeral home to yank them out and give them to my NOK? I really hate to see all that gold go back into the ground. Tom
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no it wouldtn be morbid
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
however, my step mother had one fall off when i was a teenager, she give it to me to take to a jeweler for scrap, it was worth 5 bucks, i think gold was around 300 an oz back then
Gold approaching 1k/oz, a few teeth will help get the person buried.
Wheew! Thought I might be some sort of kook. I have heard that gold/diamond rings disappear in funeral homes. Just didn't know about teeth. I personally have never seen anyone check for gold teeth in the coffin. I just hate the thought of money being stuck back in the ground. Tom
You are.
quote:Originally posted by tccox
Wheew! Thought I might be some sort of kook. I have heard that gold/diamond rings disappear in funeral homes. Just didn't know about teeth. I personally have never seen anyone check for gold teeth in the coffin. I just hate the thought of money being stuck back in the ground. Tom
You are.
But don't think we hold it against you....
Worth worrying about?
Too old to live...too young to die...
I believe it was in Georgia that the operator of supposed Crematorium disposed of bodies about anyway he wished, bet he didn't leave the gold intact before he did so. If I recall correctly he gave someone some cement for ashes which was later scattered in the ocean
The only thing between the Undertaker, leaving or taking the gold is his integrity, unless the family has made it clear to him they want it or tell him to leave it intact keep your damn hands off.
I'm glad to find out gold teeth aren't very valuable since I turned down two of them.
When I got my retirement dental examination the dentist wanted to cap (crown) two of my teeth. He filled my mouth up with concrete and let it set up. I knew we had a problem as soon as he said "UH-OH".
He tried for about fifteen or twenty minutes to dislodge my lower jaw and finally figured out he couldn't do it by himself. He went for help. It took two dentists with crowbars about another half hour to get my mouth open.
When he finally got all the Quikrete out of my mouth he asked if I still wanted him to cap my teeth. I told him since he had already showed me what the Inquisition was like, he might as well.
He said "Oh, no. That one was destroyed. I'll have to do it again."
I told him in that case, I wouldn't say no, I'd just say HELL NO!
He said if I'd let him cap them he would give me two gold teeth. I told him to stick his gold teeth up his *.
That was my retirement dental exam. [:D]
.999.99 is 24 carat
.888.00 is 22 carat European
.750.00 is 18 carat
.666.00 is .14 carat European
10 carat is less than 50 percent and 8 is around 28 percent or so..
When you take away the alloy what you have is 999.99 gold and that is where the value is..
Most dental gold is 18-20 carat, meaning it is around 75 percent gold and 25 percent alloy, depending on the alloy used depends on the hardness.. 99.99 % or 24 carat is currently over 800 per ounce.. Assayers are paying as much for dental gold and bridges as they are for gold jewelry..
That was my retirement dental exam. [:D]A military dentist?
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
That was my retirement dental exam. [:D]A military dentist?
Yeah, a lieutenant (O-3).
I wouldn't expect dental gold to be more than 75%. Gold is a fairly soft metal and teeth take a beating.
I only have one bridge and 3 caps. I was military and the tax payers put them in for me.
I believe that there is a new program in the works where the value of that gold will be deducted from your pension! My brother in law did a crown and a bridge for me about 11 years ago, both in gold, and both now worth far more today than back in 1997. High quality gold dental work will last a lifetime so in the long run you come out way ahead using gold.
Too old to live...too young to die...
Gold is gold, Carat depends on how much alloy is mixed to harden it.
.999.99 is 24 carat
.888.00 is 22 carat European
.750.00 is 18 carat
.666.00 is .14 carat European
10 carat is less than 50 percent and 8 is around 28 percent or so..
When you take away the alloy what you have is 999.99 gold and that is where the value is..
Most dental gold is 18-20 carat, meaning it is around 75 percent gold and 25 percent alloy, depending on the alloy used depends on the hardness.. 99.99 % or 24 carat is currently over 800 per ounce.. Assayers are paying as much for dental gold and bridges as they are for gold jewelry..
Detal gold is usually 16 carat, but may be as low as 8 carat in some uses.
Had a girlfriend who worked in the dental clinic on base and she told me the trick to getting decent work there. If there's a Reserve component, always go on the weekend when they're running the place.
These folks were used to working on paying customers and the difference was like night and day in all respects.
I bought some dental gold in a cookie tin at an estate sale,I bought the tin not knowing what was inside it for 2 bucks as it was rusted shut. it tested out from 18 to 22 carat depending on what part of the dental prothesis it was from.. Again. refine the alloy out and you still got good gold.. At 8 carat ya just nee more of it to add up.
Porcelain crowns use platinum as a base. That's the good stuff!
went to have a molar removed, I thought of the gold and asked the dr. the same thing. he said by law he had to dispose of them as medical waste.
Sounds like your dentist could have been a mortician. [:D]
I once worked on a crew removing cemeteries from an area about to be flooded by a dam. The skull in one grave I took up contained a row of four gold teeth, and judging by the weight, I would say that the two middle teeth were solid and the two outer were crowns. A cousin of the deceased was there to witness the disinterment and take the remains away to a private burial. As far as I know, the family buried the gold teeth again along with the bones. I thought that was a waste--but then again, maybe the cousin had the good sense to take out the screws I had fastened the lid with and pocket the gold. I'll never know.
"Nope" said the Dr. "It is all mixed in, and it is Medical Waste".
Supposedly, the findings are accounted for, and when they are sent to a refiner, there is an assay on the amounts of Gold, Platinum, and Silver by weight.