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

I read that they have to take out anything with a battery, like a pacemaker, because it will explode.

They get "lost."

It's in my will to pull any gold teeth before burial and to not bury me in any jewelry including my wedding band. Put that stuff in the safe.

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Watching “The Pacific” this week and that thought entered my mind as I watched them extract gold teeth from the Japanese killed/wounded-in-actio

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Wait till you hear about what the Nazis did to the Jews

That’s how the tooth fairy makes her money.

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.

Think of them as tips for the poor frickers who had to load the corpse into the oven & scrape the ashes out.

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

Regardless, you sound weird AF

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I read that they have to take out anything with a battery, like a pacemaker, because it will explode.

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Would not want to hurt a corpse. Good thinking!