Have you had a dentist steal or try to steal a gold crown he or she removed?
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August 12th, 2014
Many years ago my then dentist pulled out a gold crown and kept it. At the time I had no idea the value of it.
Then a year later I asked him where it was and he joked, “it fell behind that file cabinet” and smiled.
A few years after that my father told me he had several gold crowns removed but took a prescription bottle for the dentist to put them in. When he told the dentist “put those in here” he says he got a very dirty look from the dentist!
Have you had a dentist keep one of your gold crowns to re-sell?
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Not stealing it exactly. Just him saying that it is a bio hazard and that they (the dental office) will dispose of it for you. I told my dentist that I wanted the 2 gold crowns he pulled and the look on his face was one of great disappointment.
A bio-hazard, eh? I wonder how many lives would have been lost if he handed them to you.
Oh, yes . He would have disposed of them for you at a pawn shop.
Patients need to be their own advocates now. Look out for #1.
The gold used in gold crowns in usually 10 karat (maybe higher but it can’t be too high or the crown would be too soft to be useful) and given that the average crown weighs maybe a 10th of an ounce your only looking at $50–60. After you’ve taken out the refiners fee of say $25–30 then your gold crown isn’t actually worth that much.
Maybe but my s/o had all his teeth pulled for dental implants and got well over $100 for all his gold crowns.
@Aster The cost of a full set of implants can be between $25k and $100k. A 100 bucks is pocket change in comparison.
Happened to my dad. I rang the office when he told me about it and got the biohazrd thing. What I used to do is offer the crown to the patient. Dental gold is not jeweler’s gold, it is mixed with other metals because gold is too soft to withstand chewing forces. However, the old ones, (such as old people have) have much more gold in them than modern crowns. A modern crown is bascially worthless.Pawn shops will not take dental gold. You have to take it to proper gold buyer.
These were taken to a pawn shop twenty years ago. A big handful of them. We handed them to my psycho daughter and her BF and said, “you take them and keep half the money.” They brought back $65 and I’m pretty sure we got ripped off. He got the gold crowns when he was in the Navy. A very long time ago. Way before we met.
And yes, @Lightlyseared ; he spent five figures on the implants.
He wouldn’t dare, id use his heart for a pin cushion for his dental tools first.
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