Mike95060
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The Mrs. Says you probably could get between $50 and $75. More than I expected. Her office dosn't scrap it so your on your own for that.
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Ever sell yer gold dentalwork for scrap?
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Uh, wut. It all gets melted down and refined by the assayer anyway. All that matters is the percentage of gold, not the alloys that were used. No one takes existing junk gold and just melts it and turns it into new jewelry (no one serious, at least. I used to do it all the time, to highly varying degrees of success.)
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Everything that isn't 24k has alloys in it... It's seems normal that super soft 24k wouldn't be used in your mouth. It would wear rather quickly I think. 16k is the average for dental, and suitable for jewelry. It's just a bit more than 1/2 pure gold or 12k.
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Jeeze... I hate to bring it up (and yet...) but the Nazis did it on a rather large scale.
russ69
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Gold alloy is a good engineering application for molars. I have two and they have never failed. But to tell you the truth, I think cosmetically I'd get a porcelain crown if I did it again. My old dentist, said he had no personal favorite but he did a lot of cosmetic dentistry.
Upon further thought. When Trump sends us to the internment camps, maybe it's better not to have gold teeth. Just spit-balling some ideas.
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Tell its from a famous Western Outlaw. Who had it fashioned by California Gold Miners. Went to a Dentist who was none other than Doc Holiday. It might be worth two bits. 
Could become famous yourself. Where even your used Kleenex fetches thousands.
Could become famous yourself. Where even your used Kleenex fetches thousands.
Hyperborea
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I've got two crowns on wisdom teeth and they are both gold alloy. Porcelain crowns are often porcelain on top of metal and are thicker than the gold alloy crowns. That means they have to shave the tooth down more to fit them and that can lead to sensitive nerves. You can get plain porcelain but those aren't as strong as the gold alloy or porcelain coated gold alloy and for molars / wisdom teeth having them strong is necessary.
If it was a tooth in the front of my mouth I'd probably go some form of porcelain but for a molar/wisdom tooth the alloy seem to be the best choice. Nobody notices it way back there.
Eldritch
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Oh, I have certainly heard of it. People were just talking about it on January 27th.
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Selling blood seems more profitable and more renewable.
Climber
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Thanks for the comic relief! 
I have a gold crown back in my mouth, got it back in 1990 before gold ran up so high. It was less than a porcelain one, it cost about $300 back then.
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Schnellbandit
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+1 Yeah, they do pull that stuff on people. Gold is anything but a biological hazard, they say that to scare the elderly who often have lots of gold crowns. Another scam is to claim the gold crowns need to be replaced and then they put in porcelain. Someone is going to throw the gold away because it was used in a crown? Right.
If they can't steralize the gold (pure BS) then how do they clean all their mirrors and other implements they out in your mouth?
Always demand anything they remove from your mouth made from precious metals.