When we think of dental fillings, many of us immediately picture the silver fillings that have been widely used by dentists for more than a century. While typically referred to as silver due to their colour, these are actually an amalgam of metals such as mercury, silver, copper, and tin. Other materials have been used for dental work as well, including porcelain, stainless steel, and gold. Gold and silver have been used not only in fillings, but in crowns, or to cover the visible portion of a tooth completely.
If you have dental scrap from old dental work that has since been replaced with other materials, you may be wondering if it has any value. Is dental gold, for example, worth as much as gold from jewellery?
The price of precious metals is on the rise, with gold and silver increasing over the course of 2021, but what does that mean for your dental scrap gold and silver?
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