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re: What Happens To The Gold And Silver From Dental Work When Someone Is Cremated?
Posted on 10/25/22 at 4:00 pm to auwaterfowler
Posted on 10/25/22 at 4:00 pm to auwaterfowler
It's a tip for pushing the body in the furnace
Posted on 10/25/22 at 4:07 pm to auwaterfowler
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'."
" ... and if you think we gonna bury you with all them diamonds and shite, you got another thing comin'."
Posted on 10/25/22 at 4:45 pm to auwaterfowler
Depends on who cremates them...
Posted on 10/25/22 at 5:24 pm to auwaterfowler
A friend of mine had a job that he would go to dentist and funeral homes and recover the gold.
He would only go to funeral homes in poor areas. The funeral homes in better neighborhoods would not deal with him.
He would only go to funeral homes in poor areas. The funeral homes in better neighborhoods would not deal with him.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 5:30 pm to wildeaux
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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.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 5:43 pm to idlewatcher
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I really thought you were FOS initially, then realized that gold melts above the temperature of cremation temperature.
Yeah, too bad that metal isn't magnetic.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:03 pm to cbr900racer22
The magnet just pulls normal dental work. The stainless hoe pulls out the ashes and then we would dig out the replacements. I think they were titanium but I couldn’t swear to it.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:29 pm to auwaterfowler
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.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:35 pm to idlewatcher
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Regardless, you sound weird AF
And wildeaux rockets to the top of the list of likely serial killers on this board.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:45 pm to auwaterfowler
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
Posted on 10/25/22 at 7:37 pm to wildeaux
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The magnet just pulls normal dental work. The stainless hoe pulls out the ashes and then we would dig out the replacements. I think they were titanium but I couldn’t swear to it.
Yes most ortho hardware is Titanium alloy, and, non-magnetic.
Stainless steel was popular in the past and might still be used in some applications I believe. But Ti alloy is the standard in the US for ortho work.
They ought to recycle that shite. It is very expensive.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 7:45 pm to AndyCBR
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.
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.
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