re: What Happens To The Gold And Silver From Dental Work When Someone Is Cremated?

Richard Pryor imitating a black preacher at a funeral:

" ... and if you think we gonna bury you with all them diamonds and shite, you got another thing comin'."

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I used to work at Roseneath in Shreveport. We would cremate then run a magnet on a stick to extract all the metal like dental work and joint replacements. Most of the gold was previously extracted. I would keep the titanium hip and elbow replacements. I made mobiles out of them and had the pledges clean them while I quizzed them on frat history. The larger bones were ground in a large coffee grinder looking deal. After everything was dust we would place the ashes in a bag like you use for beta fish at the pet store. The bag went into a laminated cardboard box until the family could obtain a modest receptacle.

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I would keep the titanium hip and elbow replacements. I made mobiles out of them and had the pledges clean them while I quizzed them on frat history.

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I really thought you were FOS initially, then realized that gold melts above the temperature of cremation temperature.

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Yeah, too bad that metal isn't magnetic.

Before my grandpa passed he went take all his gold dental work out and melted it into a cross medallion. He gave it to me but I’m to afraid to lose it so I never wear it.

The funeral home gave my mom a bag of all my dads gold caps and teeth and shite, she still has them in a ziplock in her dresser, it’s a scene man

Some unscrupulous Funeral homes pull the gold crowned
teeth and eventually sell it when they collect enough.
Iknow a dentist who had pulled teeth with crowns put them
in a coffee can after a number of years of this he sent to
a refiner and collected 100,000 dollars.this was in the 80s
and 90s when gold prices went to high levels.